{"id":13995,"date":"2012-04-30T17:37:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T21:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13995"},"modified":"2012-04-30T17:37:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T21:37:52","slug":"gop-convention-ron-paul-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13995\/gop-convention-ron-paul-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Convention: Ron Paul Revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/04\/29\/ron-paul-claims-victory-in-louisiana\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Caller<\/a> explains the (tortured) delegate math that is giving GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul \u2013 yes, he\u2019s still running \u2013 control of state delegations to the national convention; and with them, the ability to impact Mitt Romney\u2019s march to the nomination.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Texas Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.dailycaller.com\/politics\/ron-paul.htm\">Ron Paul<\/a> claimed another come-from-behind caucus victory this weekend, announcing that approximately 74 percent of the delegates to Louisiana\u2019s state GOP convention will be Paul supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana has a unique system of selecting delegates to the Republican National Convention. Twenty delegates are selected based on the results of the state\u2019s March 24 primary and another 26 delegates are based on the outcome of the state\u2019s caucus process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you\u2019re confused it\u2019s probably because you remember that Rick Santorum won 49 percent of the Louisiana primary vote back in February.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s not the only Santorum victory that ultimately went to Paul:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier this month, Paul won 20 of 24 delegates awarded by Minnesota congressional district conventions. Paul had received a significant 27 percent of the vote in the state\u2019s Feb. 7 caucuses, but Santorum had won nearly every county in a major blowout.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to The DC, Paul is also on the verge of winning a majority of the GOP\u2019s delegates from Iowa, even though he came in third behind Mitt Romney and Santorum in the Hawkeye State.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, there are as many as six other states where Paul is poised to control a majority of delegates even though he didn\u2019t win a majority of the primary votes cast in any of them.<\/p>\n<p>If you, like me and perhaps Mitt Romney\u2019s crew, considered Paul\u2019s campaign an afterthought, it may be time to move the Veepstakes chatter to the backburner and ask a much more interesting question \u2013 What, exactly, does Mr. Paul want in exchange for his endorsement at the GOP\u2019s Tampa convention?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Caller explains the (tortured) delegate math that is giving GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul \u2013 yes, he\u2019s still running \u2013 control of state delegations to the national convention; and with them, the ability to impact Mitt Romney\u2019s march to the nomination. Texas Rep. Ron Paul claimed another come-from-behind caucus victory this weekend, announcing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,1193,2026,615,160,1084,218,2729],"class_list":["post-13995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-campaign","tag-election","tag-gop","tag-mitt-romney","tag-rick-santorum","tag-ron-paul","tag-vice-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13995"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14000,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995\/revisions\/14000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}