Ron Paul Beats McCain in Maine
“Ron Paul’s strong second place finish in Maine, in which he beat John McCain, is proof that this race is far from over,” said Ron Paul campaign manager Lew Moore. “We’ll continue to battle for every delegate in this wide-open race for the Republican nomination.”
It’s not over until its over! This is especially the case with our system of delegates according to Asst. Campaign Manager, Debbie Hopper …
Tomorrow is a critical battle in a fight that will continue far beyond Feb. 5. We’re poised to do very well in states with caucuses: already Dr. Paul has won a string of second-place finishes in the early caucus states of Nevada, Louisiana (where the final numbers might be even better, once the many election irregularities are ironed out), and now Maine, where we finished a close second to Mitt Romney in number of delegates run. The delegates, not the results of the presidential preference straw polls are what counts.
That’s true in primary states, too. The primary itself may determine how delegates must vote in the first rounds of voting at the Republican National Convention. But national delegates are not chosen tomorrow: they’re chosen by a series of conventions at the congressional district and state level. These delegates may be “bound” to vote for the winner of the state primary in the first rounds of voting at the Republican National Convention-but they are not necessarily “owned” by the primary winner. Ron Paul does not have to finish first to get our delegates into the congressional district and state conventions-and then into the Republican National Convention.
There are two battles to be fought in every primary state. The first is to win the primary. The second is to win the delegates. Since the delegates are only bound to the primary results in the early rounds of voting at the Republican National Convention, in a brokered convention with several rounds of voting, Ron Paul delegates will be free to vote for-of course-Ron Paul.
Our goal tomorrow is to win every vote we possibly can for Ron Paul. Not a single one is wasted, because a vote for Ron Paul is a rejection of the path America has been on-the path toward empire and bankruptcy-and an affirmation of the course set by our nation’s Founders. We have a very good shot at the top slots in the caucus states, and even if Ron Paul doesn’t finish first in the winner-take-all primaries tomorrow, he can still win national delegates from those states later.
