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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Let's just hold on one gol darn second here. This is the complete statement from the source article:

"The key discussion points, which will also be the likely flash points during the convention, will include closed primaries. This means doing away with open primaries and the "conscience clause," which will release conservative delegates from supporting the presumptive delegate, should that delegate represent views that contradict theirs or the party."

Just perhaps there is some ambiguity there? Depends on how you parse it out. Look at it this way, "doing away with open primaries and the "conscience clause,". Does that mean doing away with the "conscience clause"? Does anyone happen to know if the "conscience clause" is currently part of RNC rules?

251 posted on 05/17/2016 9:04:55 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It wastes time.)
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To: HandyDandy

That’s poor writing by the author of the article. It’s confusing and vague as to what they’re referring to. That should never have been published that way.

And an inside-content-publishing note: sometimes the article’s author writes the headline and often they don’t. In newspapers, the writer has zip to do with the headline. Also, a headline has to fit a certain length - for instance, in a WordPress-based site, the headline must fit within a certain number of characters (65 is common), and it must have the primary keyword in it (ideally at the beginning of the headline) so the search engines will pick it up.

Journalistic integrity is often an afterthought.

This has been a problem for years, going back to strictly print media.


321 posted on 05/18/2016 11:16:59 PM PDT by bootless (Is life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it!)
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