rEVOLution in Massachusetts
rEVOLution in Massachusetts
Reports International Business Times:
Ron Paul’s 2012 delegate strategy made gains in Massachusetts and Alaska in recent days, further demonstrating the tactic’s ability to have an impact on the Republican presidential primary race.
The Ron Paul 2012 presidential campaign has been slowly and quietly working this year to gather the support of delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, and the tack has led to real increases in his chances of either winning the GOP nomination or at least having a major impact on the convention and the party’s platform going forward.
Ron Paul’s 2012 campaign, just like his 2008 one, was ignored since day one by the mainstream media and the punditry, which seemed ready from the beginning to bestow the nomination on former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.
But as the RNC nears, Paul’s resurgent campaign is beginning to show that its vociferous supporters and unlikely resiliency have combined to create a major force capable of changing the course of the 2012 presidential election.
He has already won more than half the delegates Iowa, Washington and Minnesota are sending to the RNC, and has brought many delegates to his camp in other states including North Dakota and Maine.
And over the past couple of days, Ron Paul’s 2012 delegate strategy has continued to metastasize throughout the United States, spreading to Massachusetts and Alaska.
At Massachusetts’ Saturday caucuses, less than half of Romney’s 27 chosen delegates won, and the losers list includes some big names like former lieutenant governor Kerry Healey and Massachusetts house minority leader Bradley H. Jones Jr., according to the Boston Globe.
Instead of picking Romney’s choices, they instead went with Ron Paul’s, the Globe reports. Though the state’s delegates will all be voting for Romney as per the rules of the delegation process in Massachusetts, the Ron Paulites will have the ability to influence the choosing of the state’s delegate chairman, the state’s favored vice presidential candidate and more…
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Posted by RobertButler
on Apr 30 2012. Filed under 2012 Presidential Campaign.
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