My Facebook and Twitter feeds have been a flutter lately, as Ron Paul supporters have been going out of their freaking minds saying "I told you so" news has emerged that Paul has come out the delegate winner in Iowa, as well as grabbing a slew in Minnesota and Colorado. They are citing this as proof that he is a viable candidate as well as LIBERTY FREEDOM AMERICA BLARGLE.
But their celebrations of populism seem at least a little ironic, considering that these delegates he is getting don't reflect the popular vote at all. He got a little over a quarter of the vote in Minnesota, yet has half of the delegates supporting him. He came in last in Colorado, but has a third of the delegates for that state. Iowa is the one that's really in the spotlight, since the results were already murky with Romney than Santorum barely winning. But now because of newly elected state central committee members it has switched again, so the guy who got 20% of the vote has half the delegates. Democracy?
Now, none of this is illegal. And this is the strategy that Ron Paul has repeatedly told us he would be using. I just think it's funny that for all the chest thumping that goes on with Paul supporters talking about freedom and taking the power back for the people, their candidate is getting ahead by, in a way, disregarding the votes cast by the people in those states. This isn't a "revolution", Paulites, it's accounting tricks.
I'm sure many Paul supporters will take issue with this, but tell me: if the roles had been reversed and Paul won the popular vote but Romney was still getting a disproportionate amount of delegates anyway, wouldn't you be taking to Twitter about how the system is rigged? Just curious.
