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Share this page Follow Ballotpedia. What's on your ballot? January 6, Whether or not he can ultimately win the nomination — which most political commentators and even some of his own supporters say is highly unlikely — Representative Paul clearly has the staying power to needle his opponents with attention-grabbing ads and bring his Constitution-centric message to the masses.
Several polls have asked about whether likely GOP primary voters have a favorable view of returning the US monetary system to the gold standard — a reflection of how much Paul has championed this idea. Richie says. For young potential voters — frustrated with student debt, unemployment, and gridlock in Washington — Paul is the buzz these days.
A lot of students were upset when he canceled an appearance this week at College Convention — the young people's forum that Professor Lesperance organizes, and which made news Thursday when Rick Santorum was put on the spot for his arguments against gay marriage.
He has dismissed suggestions that he himself might mount a third-party campaign, though speculation on that front still abounds.
But if he were to support Gary Johnson , who left the Republican race in December to contend for the Libertarian nomination, that could potentially influence the outcome of the general election, Richie of FairVote says. When people suggest Paul is too extreme to be president, her response? When people portray him as wanting to legalize marijuana, Ms. Aitken says she also admires his personal and religious life, and the way he gave free medical care to people in need as a doctor in Texas.
At times he does try to be a purist, because he has character and tries to stick to what he has said. Perhaps his biggest service, she says, is drawing attention to the idea of reining in the Federal Reserve. Already a subscriber? Monitor journalism changes lives because we open that too-small box that most people think they live in. We believe news can and should expand a sense of identity and possibility beyond narrow conventional expectations.
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Or are they? The Month in World Photos. Analysis Jeffrey Wilson. Report Jack Detsch. Argument Andrew Connelly. Meet-ups jumped from message boards to restaurant booths. Jackson Harvey, a year-old electrical engineer in Savage, Minn. Though the organizing effort in was officially geared toward getting the Texas congressman nominated, that plan was nested in a bigger goal. But new recruits lacked experience, and there were too few veterans to shepherd them through the sometimes thorny bowers of Minnesota caucus politics.
So Stebbins and other pro-Paul political veterans began instructing newcomers in the art of parliamentary procedure, Mr. Miyagi-ing them in how to foil rules attacks from opponents. Like Heaney, the Ron Paul supporters tended to be much younger than the average Minnesota GOP activist, and they brought with them a technological savvy that aided clandestine organizing.
For instance, in districts with heavy enough smartphone use, Paulite leaders used KakaoTalk—a Korean chatting and social media app that was barely used outside Asia in —to coordinate strategies during the caucuses and conventions. That took discipline. The space stank faintly of smoke from the cigar club next door, and it had a fridge. The maucus organizers packed it with beer and hoped no one minded the smell.
As people milled around sipping bottles of Summit, Stebbins would surreptitiously ask a few newcomers—people no one else knew—to run for delegate in the maucus election, as part of the secret slate. Everyone else was encouraged to vote for whomever they wanted. Alongside the secret slate, Stebbins, other well-known leaders and a smattering of random people ran for election too, their names projected onto the wall in no particular order. When the votes came in, Stebbins and the other group leaders always lost—despite their being the only people everyone knew.
The secret slate of strangers always won. Some Paul supporters lived too far away or were too busy to make it to a maucus. So the organizers filmed one of the simulations, uploaded it to YouTube, and sent out the link to supporters—but only after first encrypting the clip.
We had to issue individual passwords to view it. But it was what we needed to do to get our delegates elected. Though the local Republican establishment had already picked up on the Ron Paul insurgency underway, efforts to foil it mostly failed. But the cloak-and-dagger stuff worked. Party leaders only successfully identified about half of the stealth Paul slate.
Though similar things were afoot in other states, Minnesota came to Tampa with the biggest delegation of Paul supporters in the country.
Like James Heaney and Jackson Harvey, most of these supporters were new to the party. Some argue that drawing out primaries in this way gives voters time to vet candidates, and lets the best candidate emerge. But it also leaves the ultimate victor with less money and time to invest in winning the general election.
It means media chatter about his lack of leadership, and punditry conjecture about personal or political foibles that might be preventing the party from rallying behind the candidate. Only on May 29, after more than four months of primaries, did Romney finally seal the nomination. The convention was to be the moment for the party to rally behind its man. A slew of these —Iowa and Maine, for example—were caucus states.
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