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To: Jukeman

There aren’t “super delegates.” But each state sends a few of their party leaders along as delegates who can vote for whoever they want. They’d probably make up 5-10% of the total and they have an equal vote.

Ron Paul people are trying to sign up to be delegates wherever they can. On the first vote, they might be bound to elect whoever their state voted for, but on the second vote they can switch to Ron Paul.

It is 99% guaranteed that if Ron Paul can’t win, most if not all of his delegates will switch to Romney. Which means for anyone else to have a chance, Paul’s and Romney’s delegates added together have to total less than the 1144 needed to win.

The way things are going, even if the convention is brokered, it looks like Romney will enter the convention in the lead. It will be his to lose. The establishment will have no qualms about pushing for him hard if he has a plurality of delegates at that point. They can always argue he was in the lead so it’s more democratic to make him the winner.


59 posted on 02/16/2012 10:33:32 AM PST by JediJones (Newt-er the Establishmentarian Duo MittRick in 2012!)
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To: JediJones

Well, we are just parsing words. Call the uncommitted delgates or free delegates. Call them what you want but I call them “superdelegates” and so do many people because they don’t have to vote according to the primary results on the first round at the convention.


79 posted on 02/16/2012 5:04:31 PM PST by Jukeman (God help us for we are deep in trouble.)
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