{"id":2280,"date":"2008-01-24T17:20:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T17:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/louisiana-gop-ron-paul-stands-2nd\/2280\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T17:20:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T17:20:44","slug":"louisiana-gop-ron-paul-stands-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/louisiana-gop-ron-paul-stands-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana GOP: Ron Paul stands 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\" id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBody\"><strong>The Louisiana Republican Party says the state&#8217;s preliminary results indicate that presidential hopeful Ron Paul has come in second. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Louisiana Republican Party Chairman Roger Villere said Wednesday in a statement that Senator John McCain has captured the first place and Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney finished third.<\/p>\n<p>Party officials are reportedly verifying provisional ballots for newly registered voters, which may boost Paul&#8217;s numbers since most of them support his candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I applaud the supporters of Congressman Paul for their enthusiasm and superior organizational ability,&#8221; Villere said.<\/p>\n<p>While the 72-year-old Air Force veteran has yet to win a primary, the Louisiana result is yet another indication that Paul&#8217;s &#8216;message of freedom&#8217; in line with the Constitution is being heard by voters across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Political pundits believe while the Louisiana contest is not a major battleground for the Republicans, Paul&#8217;s second place finish will further boost the anti-war politician&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Because the mainstream media keeps a low profile on the popular libertarian-leaning Texan, this is considered a great victory for the 10-term congressman&#8217;s supporters.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=40153&amp;sectionid=3510203\">MD\/AA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Louisiana Republican Party says the state&#8217;s preliminary results indicate that presidential hopeful Ron Paul has come in second. Louisiana Republican Party Chairman Roger Villere said Wednesday in a statement that Senator John McCain has captured the first place and Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney finished third. Party officials are reportedly verifying provisional ballots for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1616],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-2280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"category-usa-news","8":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}