Posted on 03/03/2008 3:45:43 PM PST by Golden Gate
I voted for Duncan Hunter in TN before he dropped out...
definitely no regrets...
:)
It’s 1047 - 247 right now.
I don’t call that close. McCain needs 144 more delegates to clinch.
He can do it tomorrow.
I don’t know where the author gets his information, but it’s been a while since McCain was at only 30% of republicans.
In Virginia, where a good number of republicans actually voted in the democratic primary, and virtually nobody crossed to the republican party, McCain won 50% of the vote in a 3-man race.
Rasmussen poll of Republicans has McCain at over 50%.
McCain’s favorable rating among republicans is at 83% (or is it 75%? I can’t remember all these numbers in my head).
By and large, Republicans are NOT upset with their nominee. Heck, at this point I don’t think even a majority of CONSERVATIVE Republicans are opposed to McCain.
The Ohio Delegates are not legally required to vote for their candidate. But they ARE assigned to their candidates, which means the people who will go to the convention are the people who the CANDIDATES have chosen as their most loyal supporters.
It would be like sending McCain’s wife to the convention as “unpledged”. She might be legally allowed to vote for someone else, but the only way you are getting her to vote for someone else is if McCain has actually dropped out of the race.
It is not really useful to divide candidates based on “pledged” and “unpledged”. The important distinction is whether the delegates are committed supporters of the candidate, or truly free agents.
Democrats can vote for Republicans in the primary see below.
*If you are a registered voter in the state of Texas, you will simply choose your party and vote in that party’s primary. To explain, we do not register by party in Texas. One becomes “affiliated” with a party by voting in a party’s primary and the affiliation lasts for that primary year. As an example, if a voter voted in the March 2006 primary or April 2006 runoff primary, the voter affiliated with that party for the rest of that year, but on December 31, 2006 the affiliation expired. The affiliation means that the person may not vote in another partys primary or participate in another partys convention or sign an independent candidates petition for place on the ballot if the independent candidates position appears on the primary ballot. Note that in the general election in November, a voter may vote for whomever he/she wishes, regardless of how or whether he/she voted in the primary or runoff primary election, since all candidates are on the same ballot.
I am counting pledged and not the ones that could see reason through a McCain explosion in the next six months. That’s a long time for McCain to remain sane.
I don’t know if McCain can stay sane that long or not. He may be on Prozac or something, because he hasn’t had that Howard Dean moment yet.
Regardless, unless he dies, he gets the nomination. This is not a horserace, and it wouldn’t surprise me to see Huckabee withdraw later this week.
No write-ins are allowed in Texas primaries. There can be an official write-in candidate, if certified, in a general election. Such a candidate must qualify within 45 days of the general election. Any stray write-in in TX is ignored and off limits under state law. The system works to perpetuate only the two popular established parties.
The affiliation is for two years, not one year.
I looked at the Ohio ballots and Fred is still there.
John McCain, also a good man, did do well; has done well; and is going to be our candidate. Any party’s candidate has to appeal to a large cross-section of that party and not just only to a limited sector.
John McCain has appealed to a large cross-section; Duncan Hunter did not, partly due to lack of name recognition and funding.
We are now in a national race that is going to have huge ramifications.
This includes the war on terrorism, maintaining our national security in the midst of an extremely dangerous world (i.e., our own lives and that of our families), and, not least, the fate of millions of unborn children - correct.
If Obama, especially, becomes President, the deaths of millions of unborn children is going to be not only assured, but encouraged. And will never see an end to Roe.
So may we all stop being fixated in Buddhist-like contemplation of our own navels and get on with doing our part in defending this country and the lives of, millions of the Lord’s children...We were put on the Lord’s beautiful Earth for a good reason, a very good reason.
Well-observed (post #24).
If there is ANY way of salvaging this election, I’m game.
Thank you, Mountain Top. You’re either the only grownup here or the others have been smoking Chinese parsley again.
>> If Obama, especially, becomes President, the deaths of millions of unborn children is going to be not only assured, but encouraged. And will never see an end to Roe.
So may we all stop being fixated in Buddhist-like contemplation of our own navels and get on with doing our part in defending this country and the lives of, millions of the Lords children<<
The trouble is that McCain’s amnesty, if he succeeds, would mean tens of millions of new Dem votes in the future, which would also mean abortion forever, socialism forever, Dems in control of all 3 branches forever. So I could vote for McCain in November and hope for the best, but I hope McCain will convince us before November that he really will not sell us out like he tried to do last year.
Yes, Cornyn is backing him now. But has McCain changed his stripes?
Make your vote count....VOTE HUCKABEE!.......derail McCain!
We'd better quit playing these sophomoric games with this election and get serious about a candidate or else we will suffer the consequences.
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Nor McCain's.
Both of these men are adventurers, and fundamentally unaccountable to anyone but their audience, and we don't know who "they" are.
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