Texas Rep. Ron Paul hasn’t won any of the 23 Republican presidential primaries or caucuses already in the 2012 history books.

He’s captured only 29 delegates, just 5 percent of those awarded in contests to date. (Front-runner Mitt Romney has 340 committed delegates, 58 percent of those officially allotted, according to NPR calculations.)

And on Super Tuesday, Paul’s caucus strategy took a hit in North Dakota, where he had staked time, hope and money, and where Rick Santorum pulled out a win.

But while Romney, Santorum and Newt Gingrich — or their surrogates, to be precise — continued to bicker over who should drop out, when and why, Paul keeps insisting he’s in the GOP presidential race to win the nomination in Tampa.

Far-fetched? Jesse Benton, Paul’s national campaign chairman, begs to differ. He spoke with us Wednesday, as Paul prepared to head to events in Kansas and Missouri, which hold their GOP presidential caucuses in coming weeks.

Here’s what Benton had to say about a range of issues, from campaign strategy to Iran and the political future of Paul’s son, Sen. Rand Paul.

On how the campaign’s in-it-to-win-it posture seems highly improbable, given the post-Super Tuesday state of play

It’s not far-fetched at all. Most of the delegate projection is simply that, speculation based on how people think delegates will be allotted based on performance in nonbinding straw polls. They’re going to be elected through the state convention process. It’s our strategy to attack those state conventions, move through that convention process and capture delegates that way. The reporting of delegate attainment is largely skewed by the media right now.

(Source: ronpaulrevolution)