If I lived in one of those states, I would vote for Paul. It’s hard to believe that he’s our last hope to stop the big government liberal from MA, but that’s his role. I want a contested convention, where the adults in the party (if any) can reconsider whether shoving Romney down our throats is working as planned.
Vote Romney to defeat Obama.
Vote Romney to defeat Obama.
Vote Romney to defeat Obama.
Gingrich would be tearing the zero campaign to shreds by now, especially reponding to Axleneck and the other accusers that leave mittens staring at the headlights .... and it's not even dusk yet ... too early for headlights.
I live in the WV panhandle and am suffering voter malaise. Most of the local elections involve democrat against democrat. We’re dominated by unions around here... I’ll definitely vote in the presidential election for whatever Republican (even Romney) who is running, but I’m not sure I’m going to go stand in line to vote in this primary. Initially I liked Cain, then Gingrich.
Got back from voting here in NC just a few minutes ago.
NO big lines.
Since everyone in the Prez Primary dropped out except Mitt and Ron - I voted for RP just so Mitt can’t be as smug about winning the GOP nomination.
Gingrich is still on the ballot in WV, so I voted for him.
One interesting thing I noticed about the WV presidential primary ballot is that you vote for a slate of individual delegates in addition to your candidate. One section of the ballot said ‘vote for no more than nineteen’. But it gets even more complicated... Gingrich (and many of the other candidates also) had about 25 delegates on his slate. So which 19 should I vote for? I opted to pick the first 19 in ballot order, hoping other Gingrich voters would follow a similar pattern.
But it is conceivably possible that a candidate wins the presidential preference vote AND a candidate’s slate of delegates get the most total votes, but another candidate’s delegates get elected to attend the convention because the votes have been spread out in an unfavorable pattern.
There are way too many complexities in the presidential voting process that are prone to manipulation by insiders. The WV delegate slates are a relatively minor issue, but incorrect Iowa results and the Virginia ballot access debacle had a real impact on the election by allowing insiders to give Romney momentum at times when he was vulnerable.
Having lived in Virginia for 13 years, I fully believe that the ballot exclusion of Gingrich and others was intential manipulation of the electoral process by party officials, and not just bad luck. We need to start now to end the political careers of the state officials in Iowa, Virginia and other states that manipulated the process in favor of Romney.