Liberty Maven

It looks like Caucus voters not supporting Ron Paul banded together to vote for uncommitted delegates in the name of Ronald Reagan and that is who won, although it is unofficial at this time. That was a very savvy political move. So it looks like Ron Paul will end up with 2nd place at this time. Many provisional ballots must still be counted. For more details read the following Reason magazine article.

I just spoke to Andrew Axom, the field director for Ron Paul 2008 in Louisiana, to figure out how they did in yesterday’s caucuses. The answer? “Honestly, we do not know yet.”

Here is how National Review‘s detail-driven political reporter David Freddoso explained it:

Last night, something like 20,000 Republicans in Louisiana picked the delegates to their state convention, who will select half of the state’s delegates to the national convention (or, as Jim correctly points out, they may select nearly all of them).

The official results are not in yet, but I’m told that McCain beat all of the other candidates. The conservative “uncommitted” effort — designed to influence the party platform — might have come out ahead of everyone…

Ron Paul finished second. His supporters reportedly mobbed the 11 polling places, but many of them could not participate because they were not registered Republicans. They were required to cast provisional ballots, many of which will not count. (The provisional ballots are part of the reason for the delay in tallying the results.)

The article goes on to end with the following.

Final results, when they’re available, will be at the LA GOP’s website. We’re looking at a majority of Republicans in one of the strongest GOP states (post-Katrina) who voted for either Ron Paul or a man who died in 2004.

(Source: Reason Magazine’s Hit and Run Blog) 

More official information will be posted when the results become available.