In Which 5 States Will Ron Paul Achieve the Plurality of Delegates?
Submitted by DanInPhilly on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 14:30Rule 40(b) of the Republican Convention states:
"(b) Each candidate for nomination for
President of the United States and Vice President of the
United States shall demonstrate the support of a
plurality of the delegates from each of five (5) or more
states, severally, prior to the presentation of the name of
that candidate for nomination."
http://www.gop.com/images/legal/2008_RULES_Adopted.pdf
So the question facing a serious Ron Paul campaign would be, "In which 5 states will Ron Paul achieve the plurality of delegates needed for his name to be presented as a candidate for the nomination?"
Does this rule require that he win 5 states? Or is this rule enforced only during the convention in each state's delegation by vote taken among that state's delegates?
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Plurality vs majority
Not all realize that a plurality does not constitute a majority except in cases where there are only two choices.
So thank you for pointing out this crucial section of the Republican Convention Rules.
All of our time is best spent on activities on our states to secure delegates. In the caucus states that means identifying Paul supporters and getting them to caucuses. Not persuading those who are not Paul supporters, identifying those who are already supporters, many of whom by inclination are nonparticipants in the (corrupt) political process and many of whom were so wounded by the 2008 events that they decided to forgo participation. We are finding those supporters and getting them to the caucuses.
The campaign has their persuasion plan well in place as well so our time is also well spent telephoning, whether from home or from your local phone bank or state HQ on the VOIP telephones. For those who don't like to "cold call," the key is to overcome your dislike of rejection. They aren't rejecting you, it isn't personal. Keep turning over the cards. The faster you turn over the deck the more rapidly you find the aces!
Welcome to the DP!
This campaign is, of course, VERY serious, and it started many years ago. Don't worry, we are prepared to take this all the way.
It does not matter which five states.
I don't know how they enforce it, but I know that the delegates make the rules (and suspend the rules).
What do you think? http://consequeries.com/
"It does not matter which
"It does not matter which five states."
I think you missed my point. The campaign should have identified those five states and should be planning a full court press.
Whether or not they choose to reveal, that depends upon their tactical concept.
Posters here at DP need to be thinking in terms of serious campaigns, serious voter outreach, serious delegate counts, and serious presentations by RP himself.
Obsessing over broken windows at campaign HQ is time wasting. And paranoid rants against Diebold voting machines is positively counterproductive because there is NOTHING that can be done to change it, at least for this election.