I keep reading this over and over, and I still don't get it.
To me it reads CAN NOT hold a primary or caucus, its the CAN NOT that grabs me.
If you Can Not hold a primary or caucus before April 1st, what in the heck just happened down there? Sounds to me like the whole primary was not valid. If that is the case then there is no delegates to be had.
If I'm correct, Florida had already been penalized by it, losing half of the number of delegates. But that's not good enough for Newt, noooo...! Double jeopardy!
“Sounds to me like the whole primary was not valid. If that is the case then there is no delegates to be had.”
That is how I read it. LOL
Unfortunately the penalty called for in the Republican Party rules is a 50% reduction in the number of delegates rather than forcing the state to allocate delegates proportionally.
SC didn’t award its delegates proportionally either, so those would have to be recomputed also.
Now most states that have proportional have a 15% or 20% threshold. NH had a 10% threshold.
A proportional-with-a-20% threshold would yield 59 Romney - 40 Gingrich split.
So, maybe Gingrich should enlist 49 Floridians (include 9 Romney supporters) and demand they be seated at the convention. Invite Romney to enlist 22 South Carolinians, but insist that 7 of them be Gingrich supporters.