i can't believe the author of this article writes for abc. besides using the word 'too' twice in the first sentence, a 5th grader could write a clearer, more interesting message.

The GOP is in a sad state of affairs if it has to rig its own caucus to prevent Ron Paul from winning. The GOP is fine with promoting democracy with illegal invasions around the world, but apparently not fine with promoting it here at home. Disgusting.

No surprise here: the Republican establishment is afraid of Dr. Paul and those of us who support him. We are a threat to the power bloc that they have established with the Democrats, to the detriment of our nation and its future. They will do whatever they can get away with in order to suppress us, Dr. Paul, and his ideas. They might succeed in this election cycle, but the ideas are correct, and therefore powerful, and will grow as long as someone out here has the courage to advance them.

This article says more about ABC's second rate attempt to be a news agency than it does about the expected slight of Dr. Paul.

Fear is a powerful thing.

I lived in Louisiana in 1990. How little things have changed. Will it ever be who the PEOPLE want down there?

Hey folks, look at the top of the screen: This is a BLOG. Yes, the news is official but journalistic standards generally are not followed so much in blogs. Now that that's out of the way, what did you all expect? That people would actually be honest about the elections? Ron Paul has no chance of winning. He may have the popular support, but it'll never show up due to our extremely corrupted system. Regardless, my vote is for Ron Paul, even though it probably won't get counted...

What's second-rate about this article? This is IMPORTANT, and it's time someone covered it!

here we are, spending billions (trillions?) of dollars around the world, fighting for "democracy". who will fight for democracy right here in america?

Billy Todd's correction of the writer is amusing given his own solecisms and mechanical errors. Be that as it may, Louisiana politics has always been in disarray so there's no news there. Neither is it news that the Republican Party just keeps on committing suicide, in the bayou state and elsewhere.

Thank you for posting news about Ron Paul. Although I don't agree with all of his views, I like the fact that he is honest, straight forward, and a firm believer in the established laws (mainly the constitution). I believe he is the only chance this country has to fix the economic disaster it is in.

I ran as a delegate for Paul in the Louisiana primary and I have to admit that one-third of our voters were provisional. Now this is just in my district of New Orleans. I don't know about the others. But it was very strange because a few of our delegates even had to vote provisional, which doesn't make sense. In order to be a delegate you have to be in the Republican party.

The 2 political party's and the "mainstream" media are committed to keeping Ron Paul out of plain sight. Not a surprise at all to any long time observer!

Well, it's Louisiana. What did you expect, without U.N. election monitors at every corner? Of course the state GOP was bound to cheat. They despise and fear Paul as an outsider.

Caucuses are nearly always fixed by the bluehaired apparatchiks who run the local party machines, anyway. What's surprising is that Paul actually got credit for as many votes as he did. And when all those other "provisional votes" are counted, I suspect he'll do even better.

The so-called "pro-life slate" was simply an act of collusion by several of the also-rans, who pooled their votes to prop up the guy with the best chance of squeaking past Ron Paul. That happened to be the current "front-runner" McCain.

If the support is there, the story will follow, sooner or later. You media prognosticators really should have anticipated it, given Paul's consistent ability to motivate his fans to mob the state straw polls. He can duplicate all that and more at the Super Tuesday caucuses, wait and see.

What no one is talking about is HOW several Delegates were on both Slates.... "Uncommitted" Pro-Life slate and "Committed" John McCain slate.

Perfectly acceptable by the LAGOP.

I guess we could have list for every candidate including Reagan with the same Slate of candidate delegates.

Ron Paul won. Time to roll up our sleeves again and get to work.

How is this a boondoggle on the bayou?

This isn't a worthless project born of government largesse, this is an outright defrauding of the public and especially the active members of the republican party.

But sure... boondoggle does make a nice sounding (albeit improper) title.

I smell something "FISHY".
This is double talk for We can't acknowledge people are on the Ron Paul Bandwagon, and He's headed to the White House!
Come On U guys, this is the U.S.A., not the u.s.s.r!
Our freedom and our future is what you're jerking around here

What a mess...clearly this is a win for Paul.

It is strange that such fear and suppression is directed at not at a movement of extremes- socialism, communism, fascism, anarchy... but at a movement to abide by our most traditional guidelines- the Constitution.
Have we strayed so far that the words and ideals of Madison & Jefferson are shunned and despised as much as those of Marx, Mao or Hitler?

I await the sea of comments.

#6 Josh said it best. I am a Democrat turned Republican as Dr.Paul and his message has opened my eyes to the train wreck that is our political system. I will vote for Dr.Paul knowing that it may not even be counted. But as Dr.Paul has said, voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.