Ron Paul won Louisiana?

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  1. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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  2. Rex_B

    Rex_B Geaux Time

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    Got to be sneaky these days.
     
  3. locoguano

    locoguano Founding Member

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    Ron Paul has the majority at state conventions in Louisiana, Arkansas, Iowa, Maine, Alaska, Minnesota, and most like North Dakota. He also controls a majority of bound delegates in several other states. There seems to be some possibility that the delegates that are pledged to him but bound to Romney may abstain in the first round of voting at the national convention. If so, Paul's supporters could prevent Romney from getting the nomination without making some kind of deal.

    Also, those delegates are NOT bound when it comes to selecting a VP.
     
  4. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Paul is angling to edge the Tea Party in being able to influence the Republican platform at the convention. Paul is no fool.
     
  5. Rex_B

    Rex_B Geaux Time

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    RP is the father of the TP. But the MSM took that over and made them just another bunch of hypocritical republicans. The TP does not represent him.
     
  6. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    thats alot of acronyms
     
  7. Contained Chaos

    Contained Chaos Don't we all?

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    Actually zero.
     
  8. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    well, mr fancy, explain to me why those letters are not acronyms. because we dont pronounce them out like words? i reject that definition and so does wikipedia, listing USA and BBC as acronyms.
     
  9. Contained Chaos

    Contained Chaos Don't we all?

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    USA and BBC are abbreviations. SCUBA and AIDS are acronyms. But don't just take my word for it; the dictionary also agrees with me:

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/acronym?s=t
     
  10. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    1. ^ "acronym." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, accessed May 2, 2006: "a word (as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term; also: an abbreviation (as FBI) formed from initial letters: see initialism "
    2. ^ a b Crystal, David (1995). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-55985-5. p. 120: Its encyclopedic entry for Abbreviation contains an inset entitled "Types of Abbreviation", which lists Initialisms, followed by Acronyms, which he describes simply as "Initialisms pronounced as single words" but then adds "However, some linguists do not recognize a sharp distinction between acronyms and initialisms, but use the former term for both."
    3. ^ "acronym". Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary (2003), Barnes & Noble. ISBN 0-7607-4975-2. "1. a word created from the first letter or letters of each word in a series of words or a phrase. 2. a set of initials representing a name, organization, or the like, with each letter pronounced separately, as FBI for Federal Bureau of Investigation."
     

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