Ron Paul status in this article An editor marked Ron Paul as out at some point and the article was left this way for several days However an astute editor noticed that technically Ron Paul never stepped down or out during the primaries and continued his race all the way to the Republican National Convention Several contests were decided at the convention itself and unless someone has a reliable secondary source showing where Ron Paul actually declared himself out I don t see how we can declare it here The primaries are over the RNC is over Ron Paul is not the nominee but that doesn t change the fact that he never went out during the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries which is the focus of this article Back up the change with reliable secondary sources or leave the article be This is a silly thing to be edit warring over and the fact that Ron Paul s delegates were still being contested during the RNC speaks very clearly to the idea of whether he was out