Let's take a look at Illinois' primary process and their 69 delegates:
"Tuesday 20 March 2012: 54 (3 from each of the 18 congressional districts) of Illinois' 69 delegates to the Republican National Convention will be directly elected in the Illinois Presidential Primary.
This is a so-called Loophole primary (a Delegate Selection Primary combined with an Advisory "beauty contest" presidential preference vote). The popular vote in the Illinois Republican Primary will have nothing whatsoever to do with the presidential preference of the 54 separately elected National Convention delegates.
Each candidate for delegate ... must file a Statement of Presidential Preference supporting a specific presidential candidate, or a statement that he/she intends to run uncommitted [SBE No. P-1E]. Note: There is no law or rule officially binding the delegates to the candidate.
Each of the State's 18 congressional districts is assigned 2 to 4 National Convention delegates- the number of delegates assigned to each district being based on the relative strength of that district's vote for the Republican presidential nominee in the previous Presidential election: a total of 54 district delegates to be directly elected by the voters and individually listed on the ballot with their presidential preferences indicated."
I live in Missouri and I have definitely adopted a “why bother?” mindset this primary season. I voted in the February primary, but only because there was a huge city sales tax measure on the ballot (it lost). I’m definitely skipping the caucus. Besides, the fix is in anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6sKbpR24ASM#
http://www.dailypaul.com/221346/this-is-brent-stafford-from-missouri