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Hearing Ron Paul 3rd in Louisiana Caucus Results

By: Daniel Chubb | January 24, 2008 | 16 Comments

Ron Paul 3rd in Louisiana

We reported to you earlier that things looked positive for Ron Paul in the Louisiana Caucus Results (read more on that here); it seemed Dr. Paul had been doing well as nothing was being reported by the main news channels but now it looks like things are not so clear-cut.

The National Review is reporting “which slate won is not clear-cut, but it certainly appears that the order was: Uncommitted Pro-Life, McCain, Paul, Romney, others.

If this is true it goes against what many Ron Paul supporters have been claiming, “An overwhelming victory”…It makes you wonder why we are not hearing any official results.

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  • Michael McClary

    If I understand what happened correctly:

    1) Many of the delegate-candidates and alternate-candidates for the other presidential hopefuls also claimed to be on the “pro-life” slate. So though none of the other hopefuls except (maybe) McCain collected more delegates Paul, the aggregate of these “double-slated” delegates (plus any truly non-committed running on that slate alone) came in at the top.

    2) You aren’t getting final results yet because the caucuses had an outdated registration list. So a lot of people who registered or changed affiliation shortly before the cutoff weren’t clearly eligible. They voted on provisional ballots. The party must now check these against an up-to-date registration list to sort out the late-registering from the unregistered. Adding in the provisional ballots of qualified caucusgoers may change the results in most of the caucuses.

    Expect that most of the provisional ballots are Ron Paul supporters – new voters, late affiliation switchers, and people who didn’t realize they had to register or re-register Republican before the cutoff but voted anyway. Depending on how many of those are declared legit the race may swing in Ron Paul’s favor – drastically, slightly, or not move at all.

  • joshie

    Remember the source when you read a fact in this age of conflicting facts. NRO think Kirkpatrick, Guiliani supporter, pro-war.
    We must wait until an emperical news source reveals the results.

  • Elaine McKillop

    What did happen in Louisiana? The feedback from the caucus all night was that Ron Paul won. He had far more supporters then any other candidate. This is just typical of what is going on in this political season. Romney cheats at straw polls with the help of the Republican party. It is filmed by numerous witnesses and the MSM ignores it. Romney cheated in Nevada last week having extra ballots sent to Clark County. Jimmy Carter claims that our elections are not up to the standards of third world nations. It is not time for change, it is time for a Revolution!

  • John

    Ron Paul won with an overwhelming majority, according to reports from the field. The problem is that the LA GOP is trying to alter the ballots.

  • MR REVOLUTION

    KEEP UP THE FIGHT PEOPLE!

    Lets TAKE BACK our PARTY!

    Lets TAKE BACK our Country!

    GO RON PAUL!

    http://www.ronpaul2008.com

  • david

    All of the Mccain delegates jumped on the pro life ticket. Then there was a handout for the pro life ticket that said “win one for the gipper” that showed a picture of reagan and his wife on it. Alot of the people who voted for the prolife ticket were thompson supporters. Mccan basially got a lot of free votes from people who didnt know what was going on.

  • DownInTheBayou

    Don’t believe what they feed you. It was the professional politicians as delegates on a Ronald Reagan ballot (they couldn’t drum up enough local support independently) and Ron Paul had a full slate of both delegates and alternates. Our cry for the Federal Government to stop stripping us of our land, liberties, money and power as individuals for corporate interests (and their own gain) is being squelched by “the political machine”… just as happened after Katrina.

    We may just throw ALL the bums out!

    http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/018852.html

  • Kevin

    Ron Paul got at least 2nd,

    http://www.lagop.com

    “”I offer my congratulations Senator John McCain on his success in the Louisiana caucuses,”" Villere said. “Senator McCain is an American hero and this is further evidence that he enjoys strong support in Louisiana and throughout the South,” he said.

    Supporters of Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) appear to have captured the next highest number of delegate positions.”

    clearly by the GOP of LA Ron Paul got 2nd.

    However, there are provisional ballots that are being counted which are more likely RP votes since they become Republicans right before the deadline of November 30th.

    Your title is WRONG.

  • http://iviewit.tv eliot bernstein

    All Presidential Candidates for the 2008 election belong or are funded by a group started by Skull and Bones of Yale called the Council on Foreign Relations, a war mongering group that disguises itself as a think tank. Most members belong to Skull and Bones, the Bilderbergs, the Trilateral Commission, etc. just like Kerry and Bush (both Boneheads). Again, these Nazi sympathizing groups have stacked both sides of the ticket to assure themselves control of the government.
    Check it out
    2008 Presidential Candidates Members of the CFR include:

    Democrat CFR Candidates:

    Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton (Yale Law, Editor Yale Review of Law and Social Action), John Edwards, Chris Dodd and Bill Richardson

    Republican CFR Candidates:

    Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Fred Thompson, Newt Gingrich

    Corporate members include:

    Halliburton of Dubai, British Petroleum, Dutch Royal Shell, Exxon Mobile, General Electric (NBC), Chevron, Lockheed Martin, Merck Pharmaceuticals, News Corp (FOX), Bloomberg, IBM, Time Warner, JP Morgan/ Chase Manhattan & several other major financial institutions.

    Other Notable Members Include:

    Dick Cheney (Director 1987-1988), John Kerry, Bill Clinton (Yale Law, met Hillary while attending), Al Gore, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, John, David & Nelson Rockefeller, Condolezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Alan Greenspan (Director 1987-1988), Colin Powell, Henry Kissinger, Angelina Jolie (Yes, the actress has a five year term membership as an ambassador), Lewis �Scooter� Libby, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Maurice Hank Greenberg (Vice Chairman & Director).

    The goals of the CFR are best described by its very own members. Bill Clinton’s Georgetown mentor and CFR member Carroll Quigley states: “The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England… [and]…believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one world rule established.” Quigley differs from many of his CFR colleagues in that he believes their plan for a new world order should be more publicly disclosed. In his book Tragedy and Hope, Quigley concedes he is unique among his peers in that he believes the new world order plan of global government’s “role in history is significant enough to be known.” Quigley also admits that the two-party system allows for both groups to be controlled at the highest level but operate like bitter rivals. As Quigley says, this gives the voters the chance to “throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound of extreme shifts in policy.” Controlling Washington elite allowed private central banks to �dominate the political system…and economy of world as a whole” and implement a new system of “feudalist fashion” through “secret agreements.” Although he believes the CFR’s intentions should be more public, Quigley understands the average person doesn’t understand feudalism or serfdom and will never read his book.
    “The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.” J. Edgar Hoover

    President Kennedy said of Freemasonry: “The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.” President John F. Kennedy � address to newspaper publishers, April 27, 1961

    “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but morally treasonable to the American public.” Theodore Roosevelt

    For a primer on these groups
    http://iviewit.tv/senatecultbill.htm
    http://iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/Book/index.htm
    http://iviewit.tv/

    Take back America with a vote for either Ron Paul or Mike Gravel, the only two not affiliated with this scum ruining our country and the world. Stop watching CNN, a news organization founded by Luce a Skull member and their polls and debates, they are the propaganda filling your head with proverbial sh*t.
    Best in reclaiming America
    Eliot Bernstein
    iviewit@iviewit.tv
    530-529-4110

  • Treber

    It looks like once the provisional ballots are added Ron Paul will still have the most delegates, but this is what happened. While the other campaigns didn’t have a full slate of delegates, they were able to get more people to vote for their delegates by promoting them as a different slate. for example, each official campaign has supporters handing out sheets with their delegates names to vote for. In addition, the four campaigns gathered the non-Paul delegates names and handed them out as the pro-life, pro family slate. Same names, different slate, still supporting their respective candidates. But who they support was not mentioned, just that it was a pro-life – pro family slate. Apparently this was a ruse to dilute the Ron Paul vote, as Paul has a consistent pro-life pro family record whereas Mitt and John do not. Politics at it’s best. This raises the question, why are these candidates willing to put aside their conflicts to minimize Paul? Why do they feel so threatened? All Paul is doing is speaking the truth. Or is that the problem?

  • John b

    Correction Joshie…

    We must wait until the NWO tells us who won. It takes time to change all those votes when you’re not using electronic voting machines.

  • Guesswhotoo6

    Some opinions are that Ron Paul will need another $150M in his coffers to get elected. Well, how convenient, that Mr Bush provided an economic stimulus package to bribe everybody. Lets stimulate the Paul campaign by sending our bribe checks to his support. Checks are $600 for each person, thus we will need 250,000 people to donate their checks. This should do it. It’s the literal cost of freedom folks. Google Amero, Trilateral commission, NWO, PNAC, ect… do the research. Go Ron 2008!

  • Matt

    They ignored over 2,500 people in the Louisiana caucus. It’s an outrage! The deadline was November 31st, but they used a republican list from November 1st and in those 30 days, over 2,500 people registered republican and now they’re all being ignored… not just the ron paul supporters. Furthermore, when they saw Ron Paul had the most delegates, they changed the rules so the other candidates could file more! That’s unfair, unethical and goes against how any sort of legitimate election should be run and it’s a damn shame it’s happening in the United States of America.

    January 24, 2008 4:12 pm EST

    State party blunders put caucus results in question

    ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – Today, the Ron Paul presidential campaign calls on the Republican Party of Louisiana to count all the ballots submitted in the state’s January 22 caucus.

    “The failure of the Louisiana GOP to properly determine who was and wasn’t eligible to vote threw this entire process into disarray,” said Ron Paul campaign manager Lew Moore. “The party needs to correct this mistake by counting all the votes immediately, and releasing the results.”

    Due to mistakes by the Louisiana GOP, hundreds of voters were forced to file provisional ballots, including nearly 500 that could change the outcome of the election. According to party officials, caucus locations relied on a voter list from November 1, 2007 despite the fact that under caucus rules, voters must have registered Republican by November 30, 2007. The Louisiana Secretary of State reports that 2,709 Louisiana residents registered as Republican between November 1, 2007 and November 30, 2007.

    In multiple instances, state-certified Ron Paul delegates that were on the ballot were forced to file a provisional ballot despite the fact they were pre-approved as delegates.

    The Louisiana State GOP also changed the rules at the last minute to allow other candidates to file more delegates. At the time of the original January 10 deadline, Ron Paul had the largest number of delegates pledged to him. The party then changed the rules to give other candidates until January 12 to file more delegates.

  • WatchingInTheBayouState

    Those who believe McCain actually won the near secret Louisiana caucus probably also believe that New Orleans residents were not encouraged NOT to evacuate until it was too late, that New Orleans is still under water, that the FEMA camps with the toxic trailers were good, that martial law was good, that everything they saw on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN and FAUX news was accurate and don’t believe that the needed volunteers were TURNED AWAY so the suffering could continue.

    There’s a reason Louisiana wants Ron Paul. The NAFTA/CAFTA/ISTEA deal putting money in the politicians pockets (as the FEMA contracts did) is right in some of our backyards, taking people’s homes, farms and desecrating cemetaries… and going to foreign banks and mega-corporations.

    The “fusion slate” delegates are politicians currently in office or running for office with corporate ties. Look it up. Jindal was a trojan horse.

    It’s dirty politics and propaganda…as usual. Louisiana just doesn’t hide it as well as some other states.

  • lia

    of course the mainstream media in America won’t pick up on the Ron Paul revolution thats brewing because they would be giving air time to a cause that goes against their best interests (the status quo). They can no longer be trusted as they essentially set the agenda for all debates in Anerica. Its sick.