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Ron Paul May Have Secretly Won The Iowa Caucuses
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Jan 04, 2012 08:54am |
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| Category | Strategy |
| Author | Grace Wyler |
| News Date | Wednesday, January 4, 2012 07:40:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Ron Paul may have officially come in third tonight, but if the campaign's caucus strategy went off as planned, then Paul may actually be the real winner of the first Republican voting contest.
That's because Paul's massive organizational push in Iowa focused on both winning votes, and also on making sure that Paul supporters stuck around after the vote to make sure they were selected as county delegates — the first step towards being elected as a delegate to the Republican National Convention.
That's because Iowa's Republican caucuses are non-binding — they are technically just a straw poll, so once selected, delegates are free to vote for whichever presidential candidate they choose.
"Part of what we've been training the Ron Paul people to do is not to leave after the vote," Dan Godzich, a senior campaign advisor, told BI. "Stay and get elected to the conventions and get us those delegates." |
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