Posted on 09/20/2015 12:05:30 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
After the last presidential nomination cycle, where Mitt Romney had to struggle a bit to get the nomination, GOP leaders decided to make it easier for one of their own to get the nomination. They figured that a GOP insider, bankrolled with big money from the Chamber of Commerce and other like-thinking crony capitalists who want illegal immigration and business opportunities with Iran, could, with proper funding, get 35% or 40% of the vote in Republican primaries.
Therefore, GOP insiders thought that increasing the number of states who award delegates based on "winner take all" where the largest vote-getter, even if only a plurality, gets all the delegates would aid an establishment GOP candidate, especially in a fractured primary such as this one. They also condensed the primary calendar, so an insurgent candidate won't have as much time and opportunity to rally against the establishment candidate.
Well, it hasn't quite worked out that way.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
If I read it correctly, if Trump wins the primaries in these states, at the RNC Convention the Super Delegates can NOT go rogue and nominate another candidate? I believe they’ve had that option in the past — ignore the people’s votes, and nominate someone else. If that has been thwarted by the new rules, then... yea!!
GOPe must have something up their sleeve because there’s no way they’re going to let go of Jeb this easily. Wonder what it is.
‘What satan meant for evil, God used for good’
Yay!....Go God!
go Trump!
The RNC has been paid by The Cheap Labor Express for an amnesty candidate.
They had expected that it would be over by March like the last two nominations.
Trump has disrupted their plans.
They will still try to get ¡Yeb! nominated, by whatever means they can use.
Trumps code name should be “Honey Badger”
I am still a Cruz fan, but I LOVE what Trump is doing to the GOPe.
However, I must add that the GOPe brought it upon themselves by not being faithful to their base.
Being a bass-player, being faithful to the base is very important to me!
LOL!!! So funny!
“When the kids were young the wife had a Toyota Priebus.”
Ah! I had the SUV model, the Priapus.
True story I have 2 chromecasts. One is called Priapus and the other is Merkin. I crack me up.
Nah, I’ll still go with my suggestion. ;)
Delegate Selection Tally | |
Caucus/Convention | 15 |
Proportional Primary | 11 |
Winner-Take-All | 7 |
Winner-Take-All (by district and statewide) | 5 |
District: Winner-Take-All Primary, Statewide: if winner receives a majority Winner-Take-All Primary otherwise Proportional Primary | 4 |
District: Winner-Take-All or top two; Statewide: Proportional | 3 |
In each district and statewide - if winner receives a majority Winner-Take-All Primary otherwise Proportional Primary | 3 |
Proportional Caucus/Convention | 2 |
Loophole Primary | 2 |
Delegate Selection Primary | 1 |
If winner receives a majority Winner-Take-All Primary otherwise Proportional Primary | 1 |
Combined Selection [Winner-Take-All Primary for District Delegates with Caucus/Convention] | 1 |
Combined Selection [Proportional Primary with Caucus/Convention] | 1 |
Voter Eligibility Tally | |
Closed Primary | 16 |
Closed Caucus | 15 |
Open Primary | 12 |
Modified Primary | 9 |
Open Caucus | 2 |
Not applicable | 1 |
Modified Caucus | 1 |
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