Update Thread - Louisiana Caucuses - 7:00PM EST

My wife and I just returned from the caucus site in New Orleans. We were the only campaign there with a nice table set up. There was a small Mitt table and there were people from McCain's, but Ron Paul definitely had the youth vote. There were around ten of us handing out flyers and pointing people in the right direction. You could definitely tell those who had learned about Ron Paul from the MSM, they would avoid our pamphlets like Dracula avoids crosses. Several times throughout the night I turned to look at the table and it definitely had the most people congregating around. I was told the results will be known tomorrow. My guess is this will be the highest percentage Ron Paul has received as of yet from any caucus.

Republican caucus to be held today
by The Times-Picayune
Tuesday January 22, 2008, 7:30 AM
Louisiana's Republican voters will head to the polls today at 11 different caucus sites to cast their ballots for delegates and alternate delegates to the Louisiana Republican Convention.

Voters can cast ballots from 5:00 pm until 8:00 pm this evening.

The state convention will choose the bulk of Louisiana's delegates to the Republican National Convention. Louisiana will have a total of 47 delegates and 44 alternates to the national convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Three of Louisiana's delegate spots are already decided. Under RNC Rules, Chairman Roger F. Villere, Jr., National Committeeman Ross Little, Jr. and National Committeewoman Hon. Kay Kellogg Katz serve as automatic national convention delegates. State Convention delegates will choose the remaining 44 national delegates and alternates and will adopt an official platform for the Republican Party of Louisiana.

The following cities will host the caucuses: Bossier City, Natchitoches, Monroe, Pineville, Lake Charles, Lafayette, Baton Rouge, Houma, Kenner, New Orleans and Covington. Voters will be assigned to caucus sites based on the parish where they are registered to vote.

Fifteen delegates and fifteen alternates to the state convention will be elected from each congressional district. Republican voters are eligible to vote in the congressional district where they were registered on November 30, 2007. In order to participate, voters must present a drivers license or valid photo I.D.

The state convention will be held Feb. 16 at the Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge. All of Louisiana's 2008 national convention delegates will be uncommitted. But if a presidential candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote in the Feb. 9 presidential primary, state party rules require 20 of Louisiana's at-large delegates to support that candidate on the first ballot of the national convention. If no presidential candidate receives a majority on Feb. 9, the at-large delegates will be uncommitted.

Today's Caucus Sites

Kenner
Pontchartrain Center
4545 Williams Blvd.
Kenner, LA 70065
Room: Meeting Rooms I-III (Rivertown Rooms)
Parishes: Jefferson, St. Charles, St. John, St. James

New Orleans
Morial Convention Center
900 Convention Center Blvd.
New Orleans, LA 70130
Room: Hall I2
Parishes: Orleans, St. Bernard, Plaquemines

Covington
Holiday Inn
501 N. Hwy 190
Covington, LA 70433
Room: Pontchartrain Room
Parishes: St. Tammany, Washington, Tangipahoa

Houma
Houma Municipal Auditorium
880 Verret St.
Houma, LA 70360
Parishes: Terrebonne, Lafourche, Assumption, St. Mary

Baton Rouge
Jefferson Baptist Church
9135 Jefferson Hwy
Baton Rouge, LA 70809
Room: Activities Building
Parishes: St. Helena, Livingston, W. Feliciana, E. Feliciana, Point Coupee, E. Baton Rouge, W. Baton Rouge, Iberville, Ascension

I love that movie.

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Huffington Post: (Not A Ron Paul friend by the way)

Don't expect to hear much about it from the corporate media, but Louisiana today begins the process that will determine who 27 of it's 47 Republican delegates will support in a caucus setting.

And guess who is expected to get more delegates than anyone else out of Louisiana today?.........

From "best of New Orleans":

"The biggest surprise to come out of Louisiana's GOP delegate process thus far involves Ron Paul, the Texas congressman mounting a quasi-libertarian campaign that has been defined by its grassroots organization. Dore says the Paul campaign dropped off a 'whole slate" of delegates about two weeks ago " a surprise showing that wasn't expected."

Da Bump

It's on the front page, bumped to the top now.

Thats what I say also. Freds out Hucks broke Heath is Dead. SO WHAT!

Louisiana Caucus and the delegates is what is important.

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