At least someone learned from something from Obama's winning 2008 strategy.

This is Colbert'esque.

I find the American political system interesting and confusing.

So the guy running an allegedly anti corruption, pro people campaign wants to win by rigging the election and going against the will of the country? Shady. That said, it would be fun to see Obama kick his ass in the general.

I would like him to win the republican nomination only to be beat by Obama in the general. For all his flaws, he is certainly different than all the others. That in itself is a breath of fresh air.
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

So the guy running an allegedly anti corruption, pro people campaign wants to win by rigging the election and going against the will of the country? Shady. That said, it would be fun to see Obama kick his ass in the general.

^I think the debates would be most interesting with that match up.

I think it's a fine example of how he wants the country to work...pay lip service to the public view of the rules (since they're only backed by a toothless government anyway), and then once you're out of sight, twist them any way you want. The true face of the libertarian loon; ethics mean nothing (they have no dollar value).

Oh, so its a bad thing that his voters are more determined?
Sounds fair to me.

>> ^coolhund:

Oh, so its a bad thing that his voters are more determined?
Sounds fair to me.


I think you misunderstand. His "voters" are not "more determined". His voters have nothing to do with it.

Imagine if every town had one vote to cast and only the mayor could cast it. The mayor might have a poll to see which way the townspeople want to vote, but he doesn't have to abide by those results. This is actually how primaries work.

The problem as I see it for the republicans is that if their nomination doesn't represent the will of their voters, it seems unlikely that he'll win the popular vote in the presidential election. Although I'd imagine that the kind of people who vote for Santorum or Gingrich would vote for Satan himself as long as it wasn't Obama.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

So the guy running an allegedly anti corruption, pro people campaign wants to win by rigging the election and going against the will of the country? Shady. That said, it would be fun to see Obama kick his ass in the general.


I think what's said starting at 10:23 is really what this is about. Both Ron Paul and his campaign people know he doesn't really have a chance of being the nominee. But by amassing enough delegates to swing the primary for one of the other candidates, he has this enormous barging chip. And Paul can pretty much name whatever political price he wants in exchange for those delegates.

I agree it is completely weasely, but it's only possible because the caucus system is set up to be ultimately decided by insiders if the people don't vote the way they're supposed to. Maybe this will force the parties to change their shamefully undemocratic nomination system.

The system is broken - there's nothing "wrong" about doing what they're doing, until they change how that works.

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