How much money, bribes and fraud does it take to win an election these days anyways?

This article is a work in progress about the election process of 2012, candidates, media blackouts and behind the sciences action to becoming the next president of the united states of America.

It started out like any other year perhaps a bit early with a full house in the GOP looking for the GOP party nomination.

The first vote at the IA Caucus is when things became clearly different from past elections. Vote count discrepancies, voter adjustments and more.

Only four candidates remain, things get a bit hairy with attack ads and name calling. Are these candidates for president or a kindergarten class?... wait, sorry for the insult kids, you kindergarteners act much better than most of these candidates.

Only two candidates remain, yet the media and GOP appear to be blind to their 12 term congress man from Texas.

Little news of the process and delegate count at this point from the larger media sources, other than the occasional romney preemptively declared primary winner.

How much money does it take to win an election? (as of 05/15/2012)

• Barack Obama, $196,000,000 USD
• Mitt Romney, $87,500,000 USD
• Ron Paul, $35,900,000 USD
• Rick Santorum, $20,600,000 USD (OUT)
• Rick Perry, $20,300,000 USD (OUT)
• Herman Cain, $16,100,000 USD (OUT)
• Michele Bachmann, $7,400,000 USD (OUT)
• Jon Huntsman, $3,700,000 USD (OUT)
• Tim Pawlenty, $5,800,000 USD (OUT)

http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/campaign-finance

First you must understand how the political system really works, then you will see how Paul's inspiration of a whole new generation of voters has netted him a win regardless of media bias and the continued war propaganda. In the end its about the people, how many of them hear the message and how well it resonates with them.

If you have ever been to a Ron Paul speech you know what I'm talking about.

This generations new voters are much different than new voters have ever been in the past. What has motivated them you ask?

Simply put, they don't see the promise of the American Dream ever coming true for them. With out of control inflation, huge school loan debts, so many fighting for the little number of good job openings, lies in politics and government has put them in a position where they are looking for something honest and consistent. Ron Paul has filled this need for many new voters. A generation lost in the propaganda of it all.

These new voters are comprised of highly motivated individuals that are dedicated and willing to put forth the effort needed to make major changes in government and our political system. The see hope in the message and look forward to a better United States. With tens of thousands of new voters turning out to hear him speak about:

• Freedom
• Sound monetary system
• Undeclared wars
• Personal rights
• Less tax and spending by the federal government
• Returning rights back the people and states
• Smaller federal government
• NDAA (gives the president the ability to assassinate US citizens as well as detain and hold them indefinitely without legal representation for any reason)
• The Constitution

The odds are looking pretty good for the revolution.

In the coming years all of these young voters that are turning out to support him will be the people making a change for the better in our government and the political system that so desperately needs a change.

Ron Paul has started a revolution in the minds of many igniting a burning desire to change things for the better here in the United States where the "Golden Rule" will no longer be booed, people can make decision for themselves and the constitution is once again the rule of law in this great land we call home.

In the end Ron Paul is going to win and neither the GOP, DNC nor the general establishment can do anything about what he has started this year. 2012 will be the end of an era. I look forward to what is next, an era of peace, prosperity, technological advancement, but most importantly an open minded society where people have the right and freedom to live as they please as long as they do no harm to another.

You have outsmarted the establishment in so many ways.

Well done Dr. Ron Paul and Congratulations on your victory.

My question had all but 5 thumbs up but was removed with the reason "This submission has been removed because people believe it is inappropriate."

Please explain this YouTube!

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United States Senator

2012-IowaCaucusResults_Certifiedvs.xlsx (452.58 kb)

Please see the attached spreadsheet that compares the results and makes note of areas that are not even counted. In some areas votes were off by a count of 185.

Before you get unhinged with responses, watch this C-Span video where the Santorum’s talk to Cafemom's "Moms Matter 2012".

http://www.c-span.org/Events/Rick-Santorum-and-Wife-Meet-with-SC-Moms/10737427150-1/

At approximately 39 minutes in Rick Santorum makes note of “X-rated commercials” that come up while him and his wife watch TV and instead of using their "freedom of choice" to watch another station, program or movie he goes on to suggests that the station should be forced to comply with certain programming which would essentially be violating the constriction. He also makes reference to Hollywood movies.

Earlier in the interview he suggests public healthcare should be provided to children with disabilities rather than parents taking responsibility for it. In many cases this would involve taking money in the form of taxes from those that choose to live a healthy life style by eating organic healthy foods, have a household without harsh chemicals and cleaners, don't drink or smoke. The rationality used here can only lead to a community that cares less about them because they will come to rely on a communist like government to care for them. That is not American and it is not our future.

And prior to that he goes on to claim that he is the only candidate to advocate for "improved national defense" when in fact he is the only one to advocate for increasing overseas military spends only.

*these statements are based on my interpretation of the interview linked above and in no way are meant to state Santorums opinions. Please watch the interview and feel free to comment and express your own conclusions.

Make a difference, do your research and go vote.

When you go to msnbc.com politics section you see a page like this where it appears they are hovering over "Rye" county:

Take note of the position of "Rye" county and the current incorrect number of delegates.

After clicking on the map it takes you to this page:

http://elections.msnbc.msn.com/ns/politics/2012/new-hampshire/republican/primary/

If you hover over "Rye" county the image looks like this:

As you can see Rye county is at the bottom of the map and the front page image was photoshop'ed in order to show the county with the highest Romney % and the lowest Ron Paul % at the top.

The point here is to show you just one of many ways the media can skew public perception by taking cherry picked misleading data and placing it front and center instead of using one of the counties at that position.

Many people are starting to question the Iowa GOP Caucus after several "errors" in the vote counts have come to light, yet the real question here is how many errors have not come to light?

Results by District:

https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrcid=2475248

also attached (113.84 kb) in case it's removed at some point.

When you look at the results some districts like "Appanoose - Union" (total population 152) come into question with 32 of the total population supposedly showing up and voting for Santorum. Not unbeliveable but made questionable considering the other vote count "errors". With smaller precincts what is to prevent people from reporting false numbers at the locations?

Consider this, Santorum was behind Paul and Romney by nearly 1500 votes until the last 22% of precincts reporting.

Also notable is the clear FEC violation on the iagop.org site:

iowagop.org

Registrant Name:Chad Olsen
Registrant Organization:Iowa Republican Party
Registrant Street1:621 E 9th St.
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Des Moines
Registrant State/Province:Iowa
Registrant Postal Code:50309
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.15152828105

iagop.org

Registrant ID:CR37571041
Registrant Name:Gary Conner
Registrant Street1:7102 Mardyke Lane
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Indianapolis
Registrant State/Province:Indiana
Registrant Postal Code:46226
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.3175474679

note the page title on the iagop.org site.