In his run for the Republican Party’s
presidential nomination, Ron Paul was famously following a
“delegate strategy” aimed at caucus states, rather than striving
for mass popular votes in primary states. The advantage of this
strategy is that its results were more malleable and less cut and
dried than “you earn delegates based on the popular vote.” But as
Senior Editor Brian Doherty notes, now
the disadvantages of that delegate strategy are also
becoming clear: The results are more malleable and less cut and
dried than “you get delegates based on the popular vote.” And as
Doherty reports, in four separate states, it’s an open question of
how many delegates dedicated to Paul will end up at the Republican
National Convention in Tampa in late August thanks to legal
challenges and appeals to the national party.

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