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Old 02-11-2012, 07:02 PM
 
Location: SC
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Where's the surge ?
The surge is comprised of delegates MOST of whom are going to RON PAUL and few to the other candidates.
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Old 02-11-2012, 07:16 PM
 
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Ok. I guess in Maine what happened was A) Romney only won by 200 Votes or a virtual tie and B) a caucus were Ron Paul was expected to do REALLY well was cancelled at the last minute (election fraud/funny business).

Mitt Romney wins 2012 Maine caucuses - Tim Mak - POLITICO.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnxeD-3Agv8

The second link shows "results" before there are any results.

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Old 02-11-2012, 08:26 PM
 
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It looks like Paul's campaign has more organized grassroots support than any of the others do ... Smart people. This is getting more interesting, especially as the GOP does everything in their power to rig the whole process. Looks like its getting dirty down in the trenches right now!

Looks like Paul's campaign has them in a corner, because if Newt and Rick stay in, then there is more chance of a brokered convention, and if they drop out then its a two horse race. Its likely that one of them will bow out and perhaps endorse the other?
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Old 02-12-2012, 08:04 AM
 
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It looks like Paul's campaign has more organized grassroots support than any of the others do ... Smart people. This is getting more interesting, especially as the GOP does everything in their power to rig the whole process. Looks like its getting dirty down in the trenches right now!

Looks like Paul's campaign has them in a corner, because if Newt and Rick stay in, then there is more chance of a brokered convention, and if they drop out then its a two horse race. Its likely that one of them will bow out and perhaps endorse the other?
No kidding about it getting dirty. They are even moving caucus locations at the last minute and doing it verbally just to try to prevent Ron Paul voters from showing up and staying afterwards to become delegates.
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Old 02-12-2012, 08:48 AM
 
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Ok. I guess in Maine what happened was A) Romney only won by 200 Votes or a virtual tie and B) a caucus were Ron Paul was expected to do REALLY well was cancelled at the last minute (election fraud/funny business).
Results were close but winning by a 10% margin isn't a virtual tie.
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Old 02-13-2012, 07:05 AM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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Results were close but winning by a 10% margin isn't a virtual tie.


10%???

Where you getting that?

Straw poll results...

former Massachusetts governor with 39 percent support, or 2,190 votes, ahead of libertarian Texas Congressman Ron Paul with 36 percent or 1,996 votes.



Did you pass math class? I got 3%
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Old 02-13-2012, 10:21 AM
 
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10% more votes, 1996 + 10% = 2195
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Old 02-17-2012, 03:02 AM
 
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If closer to the truth be told as far as delegates are concerned, Ron Paul has only about 10% fewer than Romney and Gingrich who is in third place doesn't even have half of what Ron Paul has.

The real delegate score: Romney 93, Paul 82 | Ron Paul 2012 | Peace . Gold . Liberty (http://www.dailypaul.com/214504/the-real-delegate-score-romney-93-paul-82 - broken link)

Total Delegates (IA, NH, SC, FL, NV, MN, CO, ME)
Romney: 93 (6, 7, 2, 50, 14, 2, 7, 5)
Paul: 82 (13, 3, 0, 0, 5, 28, 17, 16)
Gingrich: 29 (0, 0, 23, 0, 6, 0, 0, 0)
Santorum: 25 (6, 0, 0, 0, 3, 7, 9, 0)
Unpledged: 14 (3, 2, 0, 0, 0, 3, 3, 3)

Also they are recounting the votes in Maine where Rachel Maddow thinks they will have to retract their pronouncement of Romney winning.... and Paul is being greeted by HUGE crowds in the northwest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue-Uq...ature=youtu.be

Also now the fraud has been written about in the "Chicago Tribune" and the "LA Times".

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,7625292.story

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics...,7129764.story

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Old 02-17-2012, 06:53 AM
 
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Results were close but winning by a 10% margin isn't a virtual tie.
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10% more votes, 1996 + 10% = 2195


Make up your mind.....


10% margin, or getting 10% more votes than last time?

Grabbing a straws will have you back tracking, in short order.
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Old 02-17-2012, 07:29 PM
 
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Setting aside the delegates, which is what is really important, it should be obvious to everyone that Ron Paul is getting TWO AND THREE times the number of popular votes as he did in the last election. These are also the "admitted" votes. Judging by the throngs of people that show up to see him, I bet it is more like 4 to 6 times the number of people that voted for him before are now voting for him. They just don't "count" all the overage-- as it would make the other candidates who are "supposed" to be the favorites, look bad.
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