Could they be PA’s unbound delegates?
Cruz got his ass kicked so bad tonight he should be forced to pay back delegates.
It should be clear to everyone that Cruz would not win the swing states. Without the swing states, Hillary is our next president.
I see a few “explanations” out there, but they seem to be served on a soft-shell.
And I think that whenever these things are explained, they seem to miss the root of the situation and only describe the leaves on that tree.
While Democrats will have more than 700 “superdelegate,” nominators unbound by primary or caucus results when their summer convention starts, there will be far fewer free agents at the Republican gathering.
A combination of state and national party rules decide how many delegates vote and how their tallies are allocated at the conventions. Most delegates are “won” by candidates duing caucuses and primaries, with some states giving all of theirs to the party’s winner, some apportioning them and still others applying a combination of the two systems.
The Democrats have a total of 4,762 delegates this cycle, including 712 superdelegates who can pledge their vote to whomever they want and can change their minds if they wish. Superdelegates typically include Democratic Party officials, governors and other lawmakers. Frontrunner Hillary Clinton says she has already locked down 457 superdelegates, which combined with her regular delegates, gives her 1,058, compared to 451 for her opponent Bernie Sanders.
The Republican party has about half the number of total delegates — 2,472 — and a relative handful of truly unpledged or “unbound” delegates — 298 — going into the Republican Convention. In addition, there are a small number of delegates who were won by Gov. Jeb Bush and Ben Carson in Nevada, New Hampshire and Virginia before they dropped out of the race. Those delegates are free to pledge to other candidates now.
Another basic and pretty good simplified explanation of the Republican Party Rules.
The "super delegates" I think they mean are the few honorary kind of slots a state might opt for. This requires context....
Each state's republican party can write its own rules on how to select the delegates the state is allowed to send, but they must do so within guidelines set by the national party. Among these national party guidelines is a new rule this cycle where if a delegate is selected as part of a "presidential preference poll" then that delegate must be "bound". In other words, if people are checking candidate's names instead of delegate names the delegates that represent those people are required to vote for the candidate on the first ballot. But there are some delegates not chosen this way, like Colorado that decided to avoid this rule and have voters vote for the delegates by name. Pennsylvania today is has a mix where some delegates are from a preference poll and others are voted for by name. I think there are a few delegates that are not voted on by regular Republicans but kind of decided by the muckity-mucks that run the state Republican party, and they are unbound and unpledged and can vote how they want. I don't think there are many of them, but I think this is what people call "super delegates" for the Republican side.
I am not sure about this, so if somebody knows better, please feel free to provide better info.
The GOPe does not like us conservatives being active in the party. They want us to just shut up and do the grunt work.
I think there are three from each state, basically for the top elected officials.
Some delegates are indeed super people. :)
The GOP doesn’t have super delegates they have unbound delegates, most of whom will vote for Trump in the first ballot. This will start to leak into the media spin, give it two to three weeks.