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To: bushwon

Yup. It’s a few. Not enough to matter, and a sure-site better taken care of outside the state legislature and with the example reminding candidates to actually pay attention to the rules.

This issue rewards candidates who have a strong ground game, and potentially hurts those that don’t. The strength of the ground game is just one of many indirect things that the process measures, as part of selecting someone who can carry that forward into a national Presidential election. Why do you think that delegate totals for states aren’t purely democratic? They reward guys who can win swing states. They reward guys who can run a real nuts and bolts campaign and keep it going, not just someone who can ride a momentary wave of emotion on this or that. Trump botched some of these, but still was solid enough that it won’t make a hill of beans. He showed that he was resilient enough that he could overcome other candidates riding a local wave here and there. Sure, he’ll get dinged a few delegates for not paying attention to detail, and blowing off the mechanics in a few states, but it’s not enough to hurt him. It’ll only serve as a warning to the future.

Now changing the rules for him after the fact - that would be unfair.


124 posted on 07/11/2016 5:15:07 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

Well now it would appear that the new ruling on VA delegates will throw some cold water on these Cruz renegades.


130 posted on 07/11/2016 5:29:53 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism👍)
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