Posted on 02/17/2012 1:08:45 PM PST by Red Steel
LOS ANGELES When Newt Gingrich announced he would be spending the majority of the week in California it was assumed the candidate, who is low on funds, was heading west to collect money.
While Gingrichs California political director said fundraising this week likely pushed the campaign to its $2 million goal in the state since the beginning of the campaign, there is another strategy is in the works to rack up votes as the state awards proportional delegates for the first time.
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Gingrich has long said hes in the race until the convention, even saying Thursday his goal was to go to Tampa.
California awards 172 delegates, and was a winner-take-all state in previous Republican presidential primary elections. This election cycle the state will award proportional delegates for the first time, and delegates are bound based on a win in one of the 53 congressional districts. Each district awards three delegates, and an additional 10 at-large delegates are bound to the state-wide winner.
If you win a couple of congressional districts, you get can get as many as you would have gotten in New Hampshire just out of two congressional delegates, Schroeder said. So everythings going to change in terms of how Californias campaigned to. Well be campaigned to like were several different states.
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Most of them are either Asian, African American or Hispanic. And so youre going to see for the first time presidential candidates aggressively campaigning to Asians, blacks and Hispanics in California, because they can win significant numbers of delegates, Schroeder said.
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Gingrich said today his trip to California was a success
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I hope to leave with affection, votes, fond memories and money, all of those things coming together, Gingrich said.
Gingrich heads back to California on Feb. 25
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California delegate rich but electorally college poor for Republicans.
I agree with your post one hundred percent.
Have related it to going into an ice cream store. Tasting all the samples, then ordering a double dip of an old favorite.
It's too bad SuperPac money can ONLY be spent on negative campaigning (Not allowed to actually advocate for a named candidate).
I wonder if SuperPacs could get away with advocating positions that the candidate has spoken clearly about? For a strong example, what if Cain were still in and a SuperPac was going on endlessly about how wonderful "9-9-9" is without ever actually mentioning Herman Cain by name. Would that be legal?
There are certainly ways around it. I’m seeing ads from the Chamber of Commerce talking about how regulation kills jobs, then showing Rep. Dan Lungren(R) and saying “Fortunately Dan Lungren supports eliminating job killing regulation. Call Congressman Lungren, and tell him to keep fighting to help business create new jobs”.
The reason these PACS are running almost all negative ads is because they work.
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