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February 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda As Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich wait to see how their efforts in Florida will pay out before the results of Tuesday’s primary, Ron Paul has adopted a completely different and unconventional strategy that many say could be surprisingly successful.
Weary of wasting time and resources in Florida where a Romney/Gingrich bout for the first place has been all up absolute, Texas Congressman Ron Paul has focused instead on caucus states further along the campaign trail. A victory in Florida secures all of the state’s 50 delegates for the winner, making it considered a winner-take-all match to many. Paul, on the other hand, is focusing elsewhere where he can collect more proportional representation by placing well in caucuses.
This plan, say strategists, makes for a plan of attack that could be colossal for the rest of the contender’s run in the contest.
“I think it’s going to be an advantage of Ron Paul,” Republican strategist Karl Rove explains to Greta Van Susteren. “He’s been spending a lot of time on caucus states. His campaign manager announced this is going to be a big focus.”
While the results of the Florida primary will have some impact on the Republican race, Paul has instead put his resources towards campaigning elsewhere, specifically in states where caucuses will occur in the next few weeks. Jesse Benton, the national campaign manager for Ron Paul’s 2012 run, acknowledges that this will indeed be key to the candidate’s continued success.
In caucus states, says Benton, a win could collect a large number of delegates for the candidate which he will thus be able to rely on come time for the Republican National Convention this August. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Benton said the goal of the campaign is “to have a sizable chunk of delegates, enough to influence the platform and stop these big-government conservatives.”
“We will be going to the caucus… states and we will be promoting the whole idea of getting more delegates, because that’s the name of the game,” Paul himself said following the South Carolina primary.
“I have been in this business of promoting this cause in the electoral process for a long time. At the beginning, I thought it was just going to be promotion of a cause. Then it dawned on me, if you win elections and win delegates, that’s the way you promote a cause,” added the congressman.
As Romney, Gingrich and Santorum prepare for a heated match in Florida, Paul has instead set his sights on locales like Nevada and Minnesota. “Both states present opportunities for a strong top-three showing in their upcoming caucuses,” Benton tells USA Today. “Ours is the only campaign with the resources, organization and stamina to defeat establishment candidate Mitt Romney in a 50-state race.”
Grass-roots campaigning played a crucial role in Paul’s attempt at the presidency in 2008, and four years later he is relying on an intense, from the ground up campaign to outdo his competition. If that success can propel him to the lead in Minnesota, Paul could easily take on both Romney and Gingrich. The Minnesota caucus, slated for February 7, will award 40 delegates towards the convention.
In Nevada, where a state-wide caucus will occur on February 4, Paul has already had proven success. In a Time Magazine article published during the congressman’s 2008 campaign, the outlet acknowledged that Paul managed to beat out John McCain late in the race, only for McCain to later win the party’s nomination.
“When the state GOP tried to crown McCain at its Reno convention in April, so many Paul supporters showed up that party leaders literally fled the hall, turned off the lights and postponed the convention to make sure the anemic pro-McCain camp wasn’t swamped by liberty’s marauders,” the magazine wrote at the time.
Even with Paul focusing his campaign funding on advertisements outside of Florida, experts down south say that he could still have a strong showing during the state’s primary on Tuesday. “If anyone’s showing up, it’s people who are showing up for Ron Paul. He’s getting half or so of all the Republican young votes,” Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement’s Peter Levine tells Huffington Post.
Back in Nevada, political consultant Robert Uithoven added that the energy by way of Paul backers could be more than just big for his campaign. “Caucuses are a much clearer sign of enthusiasm, and [Paul’s] supporters clearly have the enthusiasm factor and the loyalty factor,” Uithoven told online outlet The Street. “They show up, they influence the discussion at these caucus events, and he tends to do much better in caucuses than he does in primaries.”
A recent poll conducted by Real Clear Politics and another published on Monday from USA Today and Gallup both suggest that Congressman Paul would come to either a statistical tie in a hypothetical race today with Barack Oabama.
“The survey also demonstrates Ron Paul’s competitive edge against the sitting President in a general election since Paul is the candidate capable of gaining support from independents and disenfranchised Democrats,” Benton responds.
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