Ron Paul Woos the Gem State

By Elizabeth Williamson

Wait! There’s more on Rep. Ron Paul‘s caucus strategy today: the Gem State!
We’ve already talked about Mr. Paul’s Super Tuesday sojourn to North Dakota, where he’s been the only Republican presidential candidate to bother stopping more than once.
But we didn’t say where he woke up the morning of the presidential race’s most important primary day: in Idaho, which is holding its first-ever presidential caucus tonight, awarding 32 delegates. Mr. Paul kicked off Super Tuesday with a Canyon County Town Hall in Nampa, Idaho. Tonight he lands in Fargo, where he’ll represent himself at North Dakota’s evening caucuses, which begin at 5:30 p.m. CST.
Mr. Paul has done best so far in the caucus states of Iowa and Maine. His Super Tuesday focus has been the bigger caucus states of North Dakota and Idaho, and he’s a front-runner in both.
According to a rundown in the Idaho Statesman, the Gem State’s caucuses get under way at 7 p.m. MST at the Taco Bell Arena in Boise and the Idaho Center in Nampa. According to the paper, “Plan to make a night of it: Caucusing will take a while. In the voting, the lowest vote-getter and any candidate under 15 percent will be eliminated until one candidate wins a majority at each of 44 county caucuses.”
Any candidate who garners more than 50% of the caucus vote wins all 32 Idaho delegates.