“All of the March 15 primaries are winner take all, and Trump has double digit leads in them all. The GOPe designed that to wrap things up quickly. It will work, but not for their candidate.”
Thanks for that info. Are the primaries before March 15 proportional then?
Hilarious how this will backfire on the GOPe.
How the 2016 Republican Primaries Will Work
The first states to hold primaries, as usual, will be Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. Voters in those states will go to the polls in February under the party rules passed in 2014.
States that attempt to jump ahead of those four states will be punished with the loss of delegates.
States that hold their primaries between March 1 and March 14, 2016, will award their delegates on a proportional basis, meaning that no one candidate could likely win the nomination before late-voting states get to hold their primaries.
States voting on March 15, 2016, or later will award their delegates on a winner-take-all basis, meaning candidates will likely pay more attention to them.
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I know some later primaries like CA award winner take all based on Congressional districts. For example in CA there are 3 superdelegates picked by the party, 10 for the overall winner, and 3 for the winner of each of 53 Congressional district (159), for a total of 172.