Posted on 02/04/2008 12:40:53 PM PST by maui_hawaii
I am making assumptions here but I do have some questions about procedures etc.
Lets assume tommorrow does not break hard one way or another for McClame or Romney... Lets say those two split things almost right down the middle.
Now lets also say that Huckabee pulls off a miracle and actually wins some delegates... and lets say he even wins a state...(arkansas)...
But, if you do the math Huckabee would have no way to win the race, so he would probably drop out.
If that happens then what happens to Huckabee's delegates (generally speaking) if he decides to drop out?
Huckabee has no need to drop out any more than Mo Udall did in ‘76 or Ron Paul right now. The delegates would be free to vote for whomever they choose.
If he drops out, he’ll broker a deal with the delegates he has or he’ll just sign them over to McCain.
If Huck drops out... say he got 50% of the vote in Arkansas, McCain got 24% and Romney got 26%...
Would those delegates have to be split between the remaining candidates as per the actual vote?
If not, then how does it work?
So he can just sign them over to whoever he wants?
Delegates are free to vote for whomever they want, but, usually the candidate endorses one of the remaining and asks his/her delegates to vote that way.
In this case Huck will ask his votes go to McCain. So a vote for Huck will eventaully be a vote for McCain...maybe.
In some states I believe delegates are bound by law or at least party rules to vote for the person they are assigned to in the first round balloting, and in some states for the first three rounds of balloting.
In a convention with no clear nominee it might well be that all delegates would vote for their assigned person on the first round of balloting.
It’s after that the horse trading begins. At some point ALL delegates are free to vote for whom they want, even those of candidate who are higher up in the first round. If this wasn’t the case you’d have a deadlock.
Face it folks, its over. The drive by media has managed to fool enough people who think of themselves as Republicans that McCain is someng he is not. This will reamin so until McCain gets the nomination, and then the drive by media will destroy McCain. It has all been set up by George Soros and the lib media. I am amazed how many people can’t see it. Most of all McCain, who in his blind ambition can’t see what is going to happen to him as soon as he is nominated.
“Lets assume tommorrow does not break hard one way or another for McClame or Romney... Lets say those two split things almost right down the middle.”
Not sure how that would happen considering the number of delegate-rich winner-takes-all states that McCain is going to pick up fairly easily.
The Huck will not get out. He helps McCain by staying in, compared to getting out and endorsing McCain. He’s bought, and paid for by McCain.
Right. They are not bound to do so, but something tells me they won’t be beating a path to Romney.
Bought maybe, but paid for? Not yet.
Huckabee’s strategy is to get enough delegates to hold the balance between McCain and Romney, at the Convention. He will then offer to support McCain in exchange for the VP spot on his ticket.
No, it's more complicated than that, but many (probably most) Huckabee delegates would go with Huckabee's choice for President, if it meant their guy might become VP.
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