New GOP Televised Presidential Debate in LATE MAY in TX - 155 Delegates - will it ever end?

Texas GOP Vote ^ | 3/29/12 | David Bellow

[President O must GO]

A Major Presidential Debate in Texas? This is pretty much unheard of!

The Republican Party of Texas is close to finalizing a deal that will bring a nationally televised Republican Presidential Debate to Houston, TX on May 24th, 2012. The debate will be only 5 days before the Texas Primary and there are 155 Presidential Delegates at stake. A candidate needs 1144 delegates to win the Republican nomination.

The State Republican Executive Committee (SREC) will pass, a resolution calling on all four candidates to show they have concern for our state by committing to be at the debate, and under no uncertain terms to make it known that the state party leadership would consider it a major slight to the state party and to Texas Republicans for them not to show up.

This should put heat on the candidates to get all 4 of them to show up

The Republican Presidential Nomination Race is being split 4 ways (Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul) with no signs of anyone backing out. This means that there will likely not be a winner yet by the time Texas gets a chance to vote in the May 29th, 2012 Texas Primary Elections.

Texas Should Go Back to Winner Take All

Texas has gone from winner take all to proportional because the RNC forced us to make the change because we were originally going to have our Primary Election before April. This means that Texas will have less of an impact in the Presidential Race because the 155 delegates that Texas has will be split up between 4 candidates instead of the 155 delegates all going to the candidate who wins Texas. This is not good for Texas because it significantly lowers the impact that Texas will have in the Presidential race....

[deport]

Texas GOP Primary Degelate allocation

 

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Tuesday 29 May 2012: 152 of Texas's 155 delegates to the Republican National Convention are bound to presidential contenders in today's Texas Presidential Primary. [General Rules for All Conventions and Meetings. Rule 38. Section 8. f.]

From the statewide vote, compute the number of delegates each candidate receives by multiplying that candidate's percentage of the statewide vote by the total number (152) of district and at-large delegates.

• Beginning with the candidate receiving the most votes statewide, round up fractional delegates of 0.51% and above to the next whole number. Round down fractional delegates below 0.51%.
• Repeat for the next highest vote getter until all 152 delegates are bound.

2012 Republican Primay Map as of 3-29-12
Doesn't show Territories

When Texas Votes there will be 23% of the delegates remaining and after Texas votes there will be 16% remaining to be chosen.

Weekly delegate allocation

[Old Retired Army Guy]

I doubt that this will take place. The Gingrich and Santorum campaigns will be broke and on life support by then and I doubt seriously if Romney will give them an opportunity to try and revive themselves.

[FrankR]