Daily Paul
Wednesday January 4, 2012 at 14:25
Ok I'm writing this so that once and for all, people understand what happened with the delegate process last night in Iowa.
It is a tiered system of delegate weeding out.
1) Level One: Precinct level. At each precinct, as many delegates as you want can sign up. Needless to say at the precinct I was at, 70% of them were Ron Paul supporters.
2) Level Two: County level.
3) Level Three: District level.
4) Level Four: State Level.
At the next county and state level, a weeding out process occurs by two things. a) Who wants to pay the fee to go to the next level and b) at some point you start to vote delegates ahead by forming coalitions.
For example, in 08 we joined forces with Huckabee and entirely blocked out McCain delegates.
5) Level Five: Republican National Convention.
When people say "delegates" this is what we are ACTUALLY talking about. At the state level we decide who gets to go to the RNC. We most likely won't get all the delegates, but I predict we will get way more than any other candidate. It will be MONTHS before we find any of this other stuff out, however because the county delegate meeting is in March.
So in summary: No delegates to the RNC were decided last night. Only delegates at the precinct level volunteered to work their way up the food chain to try go to the RNC, or to try get their buddies to go to the RNC. It is wedding caked shaped where the delegate number gets smaller and smaller until only the RNC delegates remain.
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