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To: miss marmelstein
Can you explain this bizarre concept a little better?

Basically allows delegates to "vote their conscience" on a first ballot. No delegate will be tied to the choice of the people. IOW, whoever can stack their delegates in will be the nominee for future elections, if Cruz has his way anyway.

21 posted on 05/29/2016 7:43:56 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

The fight for popular determination of candidates has been going for over a hundred years. He would throw all that away and go back to the smoke filled rooms. Would that be progress? Are those the good old days we supposedly long for? I say no.


28 posted on 05/29/2016 7:49:04 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

The guy from North Dakora has been trying this for years.

It is the petulant child syndrome


34 posted on 05/29/2016 7:54:33 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

And if they do rig it so the delegates can vote any which way at the first ballot, then the whole concept of “of the people, for the people, by the people” goes right out the window... and we no longer have a say in our governance, and no more representation.

That’s not what I signed up for, and not what I support...

The last time we had no representation, there was a Revolution over it.


38 posted on 05/29/2016 8:06:37 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Oh, ok! Now I understand it. Well, I doubt he’s going to get his way. He always seems to think he’s more important than he really is. Quel Surprize!


39 posted on 05/29/2016 8:07:37 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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