Are those numbers calculated using the proportional delegates as required by law?
What was done with Missouri’s delegates?
I live in Missouri.
Missouri's nonbinding primary and county caucuses have already been held. The congressional district convention will be this Saturday. Those meetings, combined with the upcoming state convention, will select the actual National Convention delegates.
Many problematic things happened in this process. In St. Charles County, the whole caucus was shut down with police being called to keep order. In my own county, which voted overwhelmingly in our nonbinding primary for Santorum, due to a split in the Santorum supporters between party leaders (who in our county were mostly Santorum people) and more radical Santorum supporters associated with a local “tea party” group who were perceived as being overly friendly to Ron Paul supporters, a slate of delegates to the district convention which included a mix of supporters of several candidates including Ron Paul was defeated in favor of a slate which had a majority of Romney supporters and the rest mostly moderate Santorum supporters or uncommitted people.
We had only one person of any prominence stand up and support Newt Gingrich — a local optometrist who is a city council member. Most of the rest of the Republican leadership was supporting Santorum with a few people being Romney supporters — and remember that the vote in our nonbinding primary was overwhelmingly for Santorum. However, due to what's happened since the primary and county caucus, I strongly suspect that our delegates on Saturday will end casting mostly Romney votes.
I'm doing a lot privately and quietly in our county, but frankly, it's not helping very much. This is not Gingrich-bashing — I've made clear for months that I'm willing to back Gingrich as a second choice and am trying to convince people to support him now that Santorum supporters have dropped out — but the simple fact of the matter is that Gingrich's past moral issues are a huge problem for the people I'm talking with. Also I'm having a huge amount of trouble convincing people that Mitt Romney, now that he's gotten the Right-to-Life and anti-gay-marriage endorsements, is not pro-life and anti-gay-marriage. These are people who have known me for years and respect my views, but the consistent comment is along the line of this: “Darrell, I know you follow politics closely, but how could Romney get those endorsements if he weren't pro-life and anti-gay-marriage?”
We can talk a lot on the internet with “preaching to the choir,” but for those people who live in Missouri, Iowa, or other states with delegates who are still up-in-the-air, it's **REALLY** important to contact the delegates and do one-on-one persuasion. A phone call or a sit-down meeting for coffee with a delegate, especially if that delegate knows you personally, can do more good than a thousand posts on a website where most of us already agree that Romney is a RINO.