For the record: Ron Paul is still in the race

Ron Paul has not conceded the Republican nomination to Romney yet, because he’s still scoring political points in the hinterlands where young undecided voters are looking for some real change in Washington.

Out of the national spotlight, Paul activists have mastered obscure local party rules to win key positions of power at state conventions, infiltrating the Republican establishment across the country, including in the key swing states of Iowa and Nevada.

In Massachusetts, they even beat out many prominent pro-Mitt Romney supporters to win spots as Romney delegates. They are informally bound by party rules to vote for Romney still, but the open secret in both parties, is no one is really bound – one of the issues at the heart of the Paul supporters’ lawsuit against the national party.

“We don't win over the insiders by becoming like an insider,” Paul said. “We win the inside over by making the outsiders become more appropriate.”

But what Paul activists have done in many places is learn the rules of the insiders and use them against them.

Nearing the end of his career, Paul, 76, calls his movement an “ideological revolution,” one he says is “alive and well.”