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To: kabar

Except the only reason there is any “chaos” to continue in the Rat party (e.g., by this GOTV effort for Hildy) is that they have proportional award of delegates.

Want the same chaos in the Republican party? Use the same system.

There are other ways to impact who gets the R nomination.


186 posted on 03/07/2008 5:47:55 PM PST by fightinJAG (Rush was right when he used to say: "You NEVER win by losing.")
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To: fightinJAG
Except the only reason there is any “chaos” to continue in the Rat party (e.g., by this GOTV effort for Hildy) is that they have proportional award of delegates..

This "chaos" is part of the democratic process [small d]. It didn't seem to have an adverse impact upon Gore's or Kerry's nomination. We have an unusual situation this election cycle because for the first time since 1928 we don't have an incumbent President or VP of either party running for the Presidency. It is a wide open race. Everyone expected the Dem race would just be a coronation of Hillary. No one predicted that Obama would be such a strong challenger.

Want the same chaos in the Republican party? Use the same system.

The winner take all system [used in most Rep primaries], open primaries, and compressing the primary schedule have combined to give us a very flawed candidate who is a self-described maverick who sided with the Dems on many important issues against his own party. He received 31% of the primary vote and was able to become the presumptive nominee. In sum, yes I would like a little more "chaos" in our primary system so we can wind up with a nominee who has the support of most of the party.

There are other ways to impact who gets the R nomination.

So how would you reform the system? What are the other ways to impact the Rep nomination?

192 posted on 03/07/2008 9:00:13 PM PST by kabar
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