Missouri GOP caucuses on Saturday — Ron Paul’s last stand?
Saturday morning (times vary slightly depending on the site), Republicans from around the state will gather at various locations to select delegates.
The voting is the first step in a multi-tier process to select the delegates and the alternates who will get to go to the GOP presidential convention next summer in Minneapolis.
ALL of the delegates from Missouri will be committed to presumptive GOP nominee John McCain, who won the state party’s primary on Feb. 5.
On the Republican side, Missouri is a winner-take-all state, so no other Republican captured any of the 58 delegates at stake. (The Republican Party also doesn’t have any “super delegates,” as do the Democrats, so there are no big-name free agents to worry about.)
So Saturday’s sessions will focus solely on who those delegates will be. After the delegate-selection process is completed later this spring, the GOP committed delegates are expected to include many of the party’s big names, as well as rank-and-file activists.
In any event, there are rumors afoot that some Ron Paul loyalists plan to show up at some of Saturday’s GOP caucuses and to see if some of their own can be elected delegates. It’s unclear what their aim is, since the delegates MUST back McCain.
The sites for Saturday’s caucuses can be found by clicking here.





Nick,
I keep on looking for a story on this on the MSM and nothing - if it hasn’t been covered by now it probably won’t be unless it happens again. At this point, from the movement’s perspective it is better it not be covered.