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Fox News Slams Ron Paul, Showing Him With Only 14 Delegates In The Total Count Of Delegates Needed To Win.

Submitted by IAG on Sun, 02/10/2008 - 02:09
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Did anyone else see this? They even had the uncommitteds at 23 delegates and Ron Paul in last place with 14 delegates.

I thought he had at least 42 or more?

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Those are projected delegates

Submitted by valleyforge on Sun, 02/10/2008 - 02:47.

Fox, AP, CNN, Yahoo - all they know are the straw poll/beauty contest percentages, and then they use them to project a delegate count. Big assumption: each candidate gets a share of local delegates proportionate to their straw poll percentage. Of course that's hugely wrong in Dr. Paul's case. The campaign's 42+ count is based on their inside knowledge of how many local delegates they won and their projection of how many national delegates that will produce at the state conventions. It also includes the 3 WV delegates that the national media ignored.

Case in point: Nevada will award 28 delegates by convention. Media projects 18 for Romney, 4 for Paul, 4 for McCain, 2 for Huck. But the campaign has stated we elected about a third of the local delegates. So they are likely counting 9 or 10 delegates for Paul out of Nevada.

Same goes for caucuses in Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, North Dakota, Colorado, Alaska, and now Washington. The Minnesota and Montana caucuses were winner take all, so I'm not sure if there was any possibility of electing Paul delegates.

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Submitted by Jane Aitken on Sun, 02/10/2008 - 02:34.

Remind them!

Yahoo is reporting the same thing

Submitted by kittyc on Sun, 02/10/2008 - 02:16.

He does have 42 delegates. The media is determined to marginalize him. They'll lie if they have to.

Which states?

Submitted by slapshot on Sun, 02/10/2008 - 02:23.

Post a list.