Ron Paul, the congressman from neighboring Texas whose Oklahoma coordinator claimed would win the state’s Republican presidential primary, finds Oklahoma today one of his weakest states.
Paul didn’t carry a single county and got only 9.6 percent of the vote in Oklahoma.
Veteran Oklahoma politics-watcher Pat McGuigan, writing for his CapitolBeatOK, said, “Rep. Paul had 26,686 votes, only 9,65 percent of the statewide Republican vote and well out of the running for delegates. In the campaign’s closing weeks, controversy dogged his state organizer, Al Gerhart, whose attacks on other Republicans and on presumed alllies infuriated many of Rep. Paul’s best-known supporters, including several elected officials.”
Only Georgia (4 percent), Ohio (9.3) and Tennessee (9 percent) were worst than Oklahoma among the 10 states with Super Tuesday votes for the Paul campaign.
Paul had respectable percentages in Alaska (24), Vermont (26) and Idaho (18). He placed second in Virginia with 40.5 percent; only he and Romney were on the ballot there.
In a future story, The McCarville Report will examine the Paul campaign and what happened to it in Oklahoma, a state in which he should have been a top finisher and where his strategy, tactics, organization and ground-game plan failed.
Paul should withdraw. He doesn’t have a chance and should let his supporters help decide the eventual nominee.
Paul supporters are for PAUL AND PAUL ONLY. We won’t vote for anyone else. Voting for the “lesser of two evils” doesn’t do our country any good. We’ll probably end up with Romney VS Obama. There is no difference between the two. Look at Obama’s 2008 top campaign contributors then look at Romney’s. NO DIFFERENCE