On Saturday, June 16, the Iowa Republican Party state convention chose delegates to the national convention. Iowa has 28 delegates. 21 of them are Ron Paul supporters. See this story.
On Saturday, June 16, the Iowa Republican Party state convention chose delegates to the national convention. Iowa has 28 delegates. 21 of them are Ron Paul supporters. See this story.
I seem to recall that the Iowa caucuses resulted in a photo-finish between Romney and Santorum — first Romney was declared the winner, then Santorum was.
I’m not sure that the Iowa caucuses should be considered the epitome of democracy when three-quarters of the national delegates go to the candidate who finished in third place with less than 22% support at the precinct caucuses. Or, to put it more bluntly, the Iowa Republican party should stop conducting caucuses, because not only can are they incapable of counting the vote properly, the caucuses have wound up having no effect on who became a delegate to the national convention.
Ron Paul supporters make a big deal of stuff like this that leads nowhere. What they should do, apart from waging the metapolitical struggle, is work to change local govt charters in order to implement low threshold PR. Countries that have low threshold PR get new parties all the time. And those parties actually get elected to political office.
Obvious stuff, but people in the US tend to ignore the obvious.