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Paulestinians sweep Oklahoma CD 5 convention

I received word from Chris Medlock that Ron Paul supporters won all three national delegate slots and all three alternate slots at the Saturday, March 31, 2012, Oklahoma 5th Congressional District Republican Convention. Medlock reports that turnout was light (only about 200 delegates), and that runoffs for each delegate slot...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 1, 2012 1:13 AM

Ron Paul's campaign of destruction and the cost of consistency

The nice thing about running your own website is you get to decide which ads run alongside your words. This morning I received notification from BlogAds of an ad submission "paid for by the Ron Paul Presidential Campaign Committee, Inc." (Saber Communications submitted the ad.) They wanted to run the...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 1, 2012 12:32 PM

Iowa caucuses: In defense of "arcane rules"

BatesLine photo of a front porch with bunting in Clear Lake, Iowa, September, 2008 Smitty at The Other McCain links to a Buzzfeed story about Ron Paul's strategy to dominate caucus states: Paul is following the roadmap set by Barack Obama's 2008 strategy: Start early, learn the rules, and...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 3, 2012 12:06 PM

Iowa caucuses: How Ron Paul can "win" and lose in the same night

Several recent poll results suggest that Texas Congressman Ron Paul could be in for a good result this coming Tuesday, the night that Iowa voters gather for Republican precinct caucuses, the first step in a series of conventions that will lead to the selection of delegates and alternates to...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 30, 2011 8:40 PM

RNC corrects Oklahoma vote total

I received a note today from Oklahoma Republican Party chairman Gary Jones, passing along the word that the Republican National Committee is correcting Oklahoma's vote in the official record of the roll call for the Republican presidential nomination. As BatesLine reported the night of the roll call, Sen. Jim Inhofe...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 21, 2008 12:04 AM

Oklahoma didn't vote

I stayed around after the speeches ended for the roll call of the states -- the actual, required vote on who will be the Republican Party's presidential nominee. Arizona passed first time around, and everyone from Nebraska on through the end of the alphabet passed, so that Arizona could put...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 4, 2008 12:27 AM

NR sends "Greetings from Planet Paul"

National Review's Stephen Spruiell is over in Minneapolis at the Target Center, covering Ron Paul's counter-convention. Spruiell writes that one speaker's attack on his employer was a crowd-pleaser: Another prompted loud applause for calling for the rejection of "the redefinition of conservatism that began with Bill Buckley and National Review,"...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 2, 2008 6:24 PM