According to the media narrative, Ron Paul lost in Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, and Maine.According to the Paul campaign, the contests in those states have only begun.
“We’re trying to take delegates and delegations,” says Paul national campaign chairman Jesse Benton of the campaign’s strategy. “Obviously, we want to do as well as we can in the beauty contests, like Maine’s beauty contest, but the most important thing is that we’re electing a majority of delegates as Ron Paul delegates to [COLOR=#216221 !important][COLOR=#216221 !important]state [COLOR=#216221 !important]conventions[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR].”
The Paul campaign calls Maine’s caucuses a “beauty contest” because the Pine Tree State’s 24 delegates aren’t bound. If delegates aren’t bound, those delegates can choose to vote for whichever candidate they please at the convention, even if their preferred candidate did not win the state. In other words, Paul could theoretically finish dead last in a state’s caucuses and yet win most or all of the delegates sent to the convention.
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