User profile: ClaySeason

Eckhouse is right, a ceremonial process was all it was intended to be. The entire voting process in NV is a nothing but a phony ceremonial process. All the voting at the precinct level, at the County Conventions and the State Convention was nothing but staged theater for the ignorant masses.

All the way to the State Convention, we were told "we the little people" the tax payers, would be selecting the delegates which we would send to the National Convention to select the Republican nominee for president. But at the State Convention we were told the Republican Party's inner circle had already made the selections for us. But then a funny thing happened. Two-thirds of the delegates at the State Convention rose up and told the Party's elite they wanted to be Americans and choose their own delegates. The rebels managed to get the Convention to hold an honest election but when the Party's elite began counting the votes and saw they were losing, they called the Convention to a halt with a promise to reconvene at a later date which they never fulfilled. Then ultimately, the Party elite simply appointed the delegates of their choosing to the National Convention without any input from "we the little people". Which was their intentions from the beginning. When they failed at the State Convention to appoint THEIR choices, they shut down the Convention and appointed THEIR choices at THEIR executive meeting.

The straw vote on the day of the caucus meant nothing. The elections of county delegates meant nothing. The voting at the County Conventions meant nothing. The voting at the State Convention meant nothing. Nothing but ceremony for the ignorant masses. All that mattered was who the Republican Party's elite chose to send to the National Convention.

America is no more. What we have now is an Ex-America ran by corporate interests. "We the people" are now "we the insignificant" to be yoked and saddled like beasts of burden for the good pleasure of the corporate interests who buy the govt via the bribery known as "campaign contributions".

The article should have also mentioned that Paul received the most donations nation-wide for any Rep. candidate in the 4th Q.

Paul raised $19.9M. Romney had $9M. McCain had $6.8M. Huckabee had $6.6M.

It's amazing that the Sun reported Paul polling last but he took second place here in NV. If the Sun and the RJ actually reported the local "news" to the locals who buy their papers, instead of their desired opinions, they could have easily made themselves aware of Paul's popularity here in NV by attending the Rep. Party Meetings. Ron Paul supporters were clearly the dominate crowd. Paul supporters were the only ones to conduct a parade in Vegas. And Paul supporters turned out at the Artemus Hall for a rally here in Vegas unequaled by any of the other Rep. candidates, over 1,000. AND! Paul's donations records, unlike the other candidates, were available for public viewing streaming live online 24/7. We knew Paul's 4th Q totals December 31. Yet, Paul polled last prior to our Jan 19 Caucus? I wonder how Paul would have done if those who get their news only from mainstream media didn't think, "Paul doesn't have a chance"?

I think the characterization of Paul's second place finish as being "spiced up slightly" is a gross understatement. After all the polls had Paul in either last or next to last, I think beating out Giuliani, McCain, and Huckabee was a big surprise. And greatly questions the validity of the polls reported in local papers. One might imagine the polls were more of a tool to shape outcomes.

How many people do not vote for a candidate because they have been told by the polls and by local newspapers that the candidate cannot win? Twenty percent? Thirty? Surely the polls and newspaper articles have some effect on some of the voters, right? How could the newspapers and polls have been so wrong on Paul? Intentionally?

Who won Nevada's Republican Straw Poll two weeks prior? It was Paul. And yet Paul polled at the bottom??? How many people knew the outcome of NV's Straw Poll? How many read the local newspapers?