Ron Paul wins majority of delegates in Nevada, Maine

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(CBS News) Although Mitt Romney is considered the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul won a majority of delegates in two state conventions this weekend.

In Nevada, where Paul won 19 percent support when the state caucused in February, 22 of the 25 delegates heading to the Republican National Convention in Tampa are Paul supporters, according to the Las Vegas Sun. Romney won the other three delegates despite winning 50 percent of the vote in Nevada's caucuses.

Sean Spicer, spokesperson for the Republican National Committee (RNC), told Hotsheet that Paul's victory "is not going to be a problem" because the Nevada Republican Party's rules state most delegates are "bound" to Romney since he won the statewide caucuses. 

In Maine, Paul also won a majority of delegates heading to the convention in Tampa. In that state's February caucuses, Paul received 36 percent to Romney's 39 percent support. 

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[mresendeziii]

Paul wins again!!!! woo WHOOO!!!

[MsmCorrupt]

Journalists for Mitt Romney 2012!

[obbop]

I am writing-in Ron Paul on the ballot to send a message to the elite-class ruling masters, corporate USA, etc.

Ron Paul will be less of a lackey figurehead politician of the rulers than the others running for president (or seeking reelection).

Vote for the common folks!!!

Thank you!!!

[goddardr]

You know the GOP machine will steer the rules to make sure Mitt not only has a majority of delegates, but nail it by a wide margin. Descension is not an option in the party.

[Liberty_Lawyer]

bstain. Here's why: Rule 38 takes under consideration that a delegate once on the convention floor, must vote on first round, but....
Sorry but delegates that are bound to a nominee, can abstain their vote. And an alternate can not take their place as long as that delegate is present. This is why the vote of present is called from the floor. However they are not required to actually case a vote. And if they do but write undecided or abstained, no one can take their place.

There is no alternate to take the place of a delegate who is present. Or a delegate who has abstained their vote to be counted. First round voting is depended on, bound delegates from particular states. However once on the convention floor, your vote is your own. Rule 38 determines you have become unbound once you are on the convention floor for voting.

You are a delegate who can abstain to vote, and you can not be replaced ! And if they press the matter, that alternate must come from your state, and have been chosen as an alternate from that states convention. But then the process is started over, if that alternate decides to abstain as well. The alternate can not be picked from any where else. So this is why the Rule 38 is stated. Otherwise you'll be there all day looking for alternates, so it will be like a dog chasing it's tail.
And low and behold here comes ROUND 2 !!! Rule 38.

You can not force a vote, this is a republic, is it not? This is how open conventions come about, there is no lawyers on the convention floor, ONLY delegates !!! If a delegate is removed so goes that vote for the first round. You can not replace them.

[auvacom]

Now that Dr Paul has met all the requirements to become a "presumptive nominee"

Who do you think Dr Paul will chose as his Vice President?

I like Judge Napolitano ,,, BUT ...with Anne Wortham they would totally destroy the Obama campaign and I mean TOTALLY because that would SERIOUSLY divide Barack's most avid voters.


Maybe THE Judge would accept a really meaningful post in Paul's administration!

[cbsnews_viewer]

BR: And now he is getting anywhere from 9-16% of the vote. Democrats don't like him because they are addicted to deficits. Establishment Republicans do not like him because they are addicted to the warfare state of the 1940s onward. Both parties are economic disasters.

[kevjustice]

mitt says: "nobody likes me".

[NinthSt78]

Those showgirls know a million dollar smile when they see one. His is the best!

[cbsnews_viewer]

BR: He is not stealing "your wallet". You want transfer payments in the form of taxes. All else you say is rhetoric.

[NinthSt78]

What's so rhetorical about voting for someone? You're right-- he didn't steal my wallet, and I tranferred too much to the government in the form of taxes, so they gave me 20 bucks back. Blessed are the peacemakers-- I voted for Hillary, too, because she always looks nice on TV.

[KansasCity-2012]

Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate that Democrats fear losing the election to.

Ron Paul won't start another war - Mitt Romney wants a war with Iran as of 6 March 2012.

Ron Paul knows the reason oil is more expensive for Americans - oil is now paid for with Euro's, not US Dollars - Something that changed in the Bush era because he did start wars in Iraq. If Romney is elected and starts a war, oil will only go higher.

Ron Paul knows the health care systems intimately as a doctor. Mitt Romney only knows it as a business who outsources as much as possible to maximize profit.

Ron Paul is a sensible and ethical man...something Romney never could be.

[fedup12]

I plan to write Ron in in November. I cant vote for Mitt.

[fedup12]

See Paul may be very Pro Life.

But he isn't going to legislate that from Washington. He will let the states decide that issue.

[dwcusc]

Isn't the response from the RNC chairperson troubling to anyone? There is an active primary going on. Romney has NOT been elected the party's nominee. So the RNC chairperson's response is blatant favoritism and in violation of the party's laws! The chair and no one in the RNC leadership can start endorsing until a nominee is selected. Also, from another news site I heard the RNC rules forbid any delegate to be bound by a state. So if that is true, I would assume the RNC chair knows that as well? RON PAUL 2012!!!

[LibertysLover]

The RNC chairperson needs to be replaced. He better start looking for a new job because the rEVOLution is comming for him.

[cbsnews_viewer]

BR: Your M-M-M thing sounds like Herman Cain's 9-9-9. Both of you love the federal reserve (He was the chairman. You love it cause you love Obama and the money printing machine needed for Obama's policies of endless warfare, and deficit spending). R. Paul is what is from what is called the 'Old Right'. We know you can quote encyclopedias which is fine, now you can look up this term.