Here’s what’s going down:
Colorado Precinct Caucuses
Precinct Caucuses meet in each precinct at 7p MST to choose delegates to the County Assemblies and District Conventions. Caucuses last about 1.5 hours.
- There is no formal system applied in the Precinct Caucus to relate the presidential preference of the participants to the choice of the precinct’s delegates to the Colorado County Assemblies and District Conventions; however, a non-binding Presidential Preference poll of the delegates will be conducted. (NOTE: It is the District Conventions and the State Convention that will actually pledge Republican National Convention delegates to presidential contenders).
Delegates selected at the Precinct Caucuses may (but are not required to) declare their Presidential Preference.
Since no National Convention delegates are bound to Presidential contenders, the Precinct Caucuses do not violate the RNC’s Tuesday 6 March 2012 timing rule.
zero national convention delegates are allocated during the Precinct Caucuses - national convention delegates are first elected in March.
Minnesota Precinct Caucuses / non-binding straw poll
Republican Party Precinct Caucuses meet to choose the precinct’s delegates to the BPOU [=“Basic Political Organization Unit” (the next higher tier: County, State Senate District or State House District)] Convention. There will also be a non-binding straw poll re: Presidential Preference held in coordination with these Precinct Caucuses. (NOTE: It is the later Congressional District and State Conventions that will actually elect Republican National Convention delegates).
- There is no formal system applied in the Precinct Caucuses to relate the presidential preference of the Caucus participants to the choice of the precinct’s delegates to the Republican Convention of the BPOU [which may be a County, State Senate District or State House District] in which the precinct is located. The participants at each Precinct Caucus alone determine if presidential preference is to be a factor in such choice and, if so, how it is to be applied.
zero national convention delegates are allocated during the Precinct Caucuses - national convention delegates are first elected in April.
Missouri Non-binding Primary
Missouri Republican non-binding Primary. Today’s primary has no effect on delegate allocation.
Missouri Secretary of State: February 2012 Presidential Preference Primary.
Dr. Paul has a good shot in all these states. CO is home to the libertarian party so you know he’s going to do well there. Kansas City is home to many liberty activists as well, so he as a shot in MO. MN not so sure.
Here in the boondocks of MN, Paul took 2nd place, behind Sin-torum. John James - you were right about the caucuses; I got to vote and am now a delegate to the county…heehee.
I was pretty surprised at Paul’s finish. My town’s quite socially conservative.
Santorum? Really?
I think this probably indicates the end of real hope for the Ron Paul campaign.
I’ve been throwing up since I found out. I hope he runs as a third party just to bring awareness to Gary Johnson.
The entire point of this thread was to point out how these results essentially mean nothing in terms of delegates, and delegates mean more than anything else in terms of Paul getting elected.
That’s what it’s all about. Get in touch with sympathetic Paul people and get instructed on next steps (i’m not positive you can communicate with the campaign…double check the rules and if you can, get in touch with the nearest campaign HQ).
^^ Awesome!
I plan to do that.
Re: Santorum. I was surprised that he won at my polling place. I think it boiled down to an article some lady brought in from the WSJ about him being prolife–we’re a big catholic community. Funny thing is that this lady could barely pronounce his name correctly, but she read some feel-good quotes from the article. Romney and the Newt finished with very small percentages…don’t remember exactly. But I just found that to be odd; like most people made a snap decision then & there for Santorum.
Did you inform everyone that Paul just told Piers Morgan on national TV a couple days ago that “life begins at conception?”
People are such idiots. It just goes to show how little it takes.
A friend of mine was doing Ron Paul’s “Phone From Home” program and he asked one lady who she was voting for and she said, “I’m not sure. I’ll see who they’re talking about on election day.” He was too stunned to respond.
I want to know how Santorum is winning CO when CO is known to be a very libertarian state. Dr. Paul said he was going to focus his campaign on the states he knew he had a chance in. Those states were Maine, CO and MN. So why did he lose miserably in MN and is losing in CO?
Why are you still using computers and the Internet and not living in the woods?
Why are you still using computers and the Internet and not living in the woods?
WTF does that have to do w/ the caucuses?
I don’t even watch news anymore, it’s all such a big charade. Literally, we are living under Pravda-style levels of propaganda. I walked past a TV on the wall at work showing CNN and there on their big studio screen, some anchor was walking up and down showing a simulated 2012 run-off between Obama and a Republic candidate… sub-titled “the race to 270” (delegates). Funny thing was that the audio was off and all I garnered from the visuals was that Obama was way ahead on delegates. So, basically, they’re telling us how the election is going to go.
*shrug
Clayton -
I don’t even watch news anymore, it’s all such a big charade. Literally, we are living under Pravda-style levels of propaganda. I walked past a TV on the wall at work showing CNN and there on their big studio screen, some anchor was walking up and down showing a simulated 2012 run-off between Obama and a Republic candidate… sub-titled “the race to 270” (delegates). Funny thing was that the audio was off and all I garnered from the visuals was that Obama was way ahead on delegates. So, basically, they’re telling us how the election is going to go.
I feel that way too. I want Dr. Paul to win but its hopeless at this point. It’s not about Dr. Paul winning the presidency but winning ideas. He’s been waking up sheeple for the past four years. How many of you discovered austrian economics through Dr. Paul?
Caucuses = civ
So?
The proper response is “touche”.
What difference does that make if you’re going to live alone in the woods?