Who voted for Romney during all those primaries? Ghosts? Democrats? Repubs? Who??
***70% of the primary voters voted AGAINST him, voting for ABR.
I’ve said for a long time that we need to change the primary system. From my home page:
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Here’s how I think primaries should be organized:
My suggestion is basically to hold the first primary in the state that has the highest percentage of GOP votes in the last election, the 2nd primary in the 2nd highest, and so on. 2 primaries a week for 25 weeks, with the last primaries being the suckup-to-the-democrats. And the democrats could easily have their primary schedule the same way, if they wanted.
This way, if a state is 60% republican, there is still incentive for them to get out the vote for 61% republican so they can bump up their state in the primary schedule.
Also: Rotate all the states (even the big ones) through an early schedule so that everyone gets access at some point to the front line.
OR
Let each state bid when they want their primary to take place. The earlier the primary, the fewer the delegates they control according to some logarithmic or steep curve formula.
18 posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:55:08 AM by Kevmo (We need to get rid of the Kennedy Wing of the Republican Party. ~Duncan Hunter) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962610/posts?page=18#18
Second thing is the order of the primaries should be determined by the percentage of republicans in the last vote. The higher the %pubbie, the sooner the state appears on the primary schedule, with a mix of big & little states and our staunchest republican states get to go FIRST. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965735/posts?page=862#862
24 posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 8:52:29 PM by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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Agreed, some serious changes are needed in GOP primary process. This one was too long, too many debates, too many contenders, too divisive. Obama ran unopposed, a huge advantage.
Those all sound like excellent ideas.
I think the Tea Party should implement them. I’ve all but given up on the Republican Party. They don’t seem interested in winning elections or promoting conservative principles. They only seem interested in perpetuating the status of the party elite.
The RNC chooses when and where primaries are held - the penalty for disobedience is removal of delegates to the convention.
THE RNC needs to be replaced and the constituional party might work. The Libertarians are dope smoking isolationists who hate the military.
I AGREE. Nothing will change so long as the libs get their foot in the door early.
I see dividing the US into perhaps six, or maybe eight regions. these regions would draw from a hat to see who goes first, second, third, etc... Then the states within each region would do the same within the region...
This is, ultimately and primarily, FAIR. Any and every state and region has the chance to be the ONE that kicks it off.
It also allows for regional priorities - the things I think are important in the Rocky Mountains (MT) are different from what say, Louisiana folks might even care about - The restoration of the logging industry in the Rockies and taking wolves off of endangered protection being prime examples...
And lastly, it is convenient wrt campaigns- no more hopping back and forth all over the place, as the states 'next in line' are all within the region, or at most , when at the ending state of one region, perhaps a bit of 'priming' in the next state to follow (in the next region).