Rachel Maddow story on Ron Paul: "Paul: All your delegates are belong to me" (VIDEO)

[highplainsdem]

Video on the show's site:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#46349475


Rachel: "In other words, it doesn't matter who you voted for. Your vote counts for Ron Paul."

[elleng]

1. Because the caucuses were non-binding,

and delegate selection occurs elsewhere!
HAHAHAHA!

[marlakay]

2. I learned all about them last election

I moved to WA state where we have caucus also and learned the rules. After you vote in groups by your neighborhood or area they have you vote and whoever gets the most votes in your area gets the delegates. But then after…and thats the part she talked about you vote on who goes to the state convention and brings the vote there. At the convention the person can vote for whoever they want even though your area told them a certain person.

Last time and I live in a small town we had these 3 people who changed their vote from clinton to Obama so we could all agree. Then they said since they were "always" the ones who went to the state convention they wanted to go and would vote for Obama for us.

I didn't trust them, at the time the war between Clinton and Obama was still going on and I wanted someone going to the convention who believed in my candidate so I talked a few others next to me into outvoting them and sending 3 people who were devoted Obama fans. I am sure I didn't make any friends that day. Thank god I didn't know any of them…

I had no idea that a vote could be changed at convention no matter how the people vote.

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. Well isn't this something.

Who knew?

What a clusterfuck.

[Major Nikon]

4. Ron Paul may singlehandedly destroy the GOP

I wish him luck in that regard.

[highplainsdem]

8. +1

[Firebrand Gary]

5. The GOP will do whatever they have to do.

To stop Ron Paul. Now that Romney and the establishment know his strategy, it's going to get real ugly.

[FarLeftFist]

6. Told you he was crazy.

[denbot]

7. OMG, going into a brokered convention, Ron Paul could sandbag the GOP.

Schadenfreude, I haz it!

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[JNelson6563]

9. Love the pic!

Perfect.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. I ought to be astounded that other campaigns didn't understand the system

or didn't bother explaining it clearly to each caucus meeting. But then again, Republicans can be amazingly dumb at times. Still, I thought their expertise was in getting votes to turn out most positively for themselves.

There's an article on this here: http://ivn.us/news/2012/02/09/whos-really-ahead-current-gop-delegate-tally-guesses-or-fact/
It suggests that maybe Gingrich hasn't been trying hard in the caucus states because their campaign decided they weren't going to reflect the voting of the average Republican who turns up anyway.