Let's be honest: we underperformed in New Hampshire. We were shooting for 13 - 17% of the vote and a third place finish -- and it didn't happen. The list of mistakes the rEVOLution made in New Hampshire is long: a late campaign start, late arrival by volunteers, an MSM media black-out, seeing your volunteers spending the last 36 hours of the campaign protesting FOX News and chasing down NeoCon radio hosts instead of focusing on the get-out-the-vote effort, the weather-induced record turnout that allowed the wishy-washy to water down die-hard voters, and so on and so on.
Despite all that has gone wrong, the sky is not falling. If you look at our standing among the 352,072 total votes cast (in both Iowa and New Hampshire), we're in a solid 4th place:
Romney - 105,292 Total Votes - 29.91%
McCain - 104,025 Total Votes - 29.55%
Huckabee - 67,609 Total Votes - 19.20%
Paul - 30,120 Total Votes - 8.56%
Giuliani - 24,492 Total Votes - 6.96%
Thompson - 18,790 Total Votes - 5.34%
Hunter - 1,744 Total Votes - 0.50%
That's despite a late start in both states and a lack of media attention there.
Now we move on to Michigan, who has 30 post-penalty delegates -- 3/4ths allocated by the vote in each district and 1/4th allocated by candidates' share of the state-wide vote. This is in a state soured by illegal foreign wars, whose industrial base has been decimated by globalist federal policies and decades of union gangsterism. Republicans have shrunk to 1/5th of registered voters, the democrats aren't really having a primary there, and all democrats and independents can vote in the GOP primary. Here, we can steadily increase our cut of the delegate share.
And where from there? To South Carolina, a state that elected the most libertarian minded (sitting) governor in America, Mark Sanford. 2/5ths of SC's delegates are allocated by district in the open primary, with the rest being winner-take-all. The same day, Nevada will hold its caucus, where 9 delegates will be allotted by district, 22 at-large, and 3 uncommitted delegates. Some think Paul will do extremely well there, and Paul has won the state's only two straw polls.
As Paul's message of peace and liberty spreads, the rEVOLution will continue to build momentum for Super Tuesday, and we will then see what we're made of. Most of the field will not have any money left to even compete on that day, and we could get a good share of the delegates that day even if we don't win a single state (although we've got a good shot at winning a few of them).
After Super Tuesday, we can assess our options. Do we keep building momentum within the GOP, picking off delegates in the post-Feb 5th states that hold 45% of the delegates? Or do we break out of the shackles of the GOP and its platform of red state fascism and grow? One thing is for certain: the rEVOLution will continue beyond the GOP primaries and has the potential to be larger than Dr. Paul himself. Dozens of rEVOLutionaries are running for Congress this cycle -- if Dr. Paul does not win in November, what will the post-Paul rEVOLution look like? I have no idea, but I'm bullish long-term and I'm glad to be a part of it.
