Posted on 03/24/2016 6:40:12 PM PDT by JonPreston
It’s not winner-take-all. It’s not winner-take-most. It’s not even proportional.
The vast majority of Pennsylvania’s Republican delegates are technically “unbound” or “uncommitted.”
Used to be they all were, but this year party rules changed slightly, making 14 “at large” delegates bound to vote for the winner of the PA Primary, but on the first ballot only.
There are also three “automatic” delegate slots for the state party chairman (Rob Gleason), the National Committeeman (Bob Asher) and National Committeewoman (Christine Toretti).
The remaining 54 delegates, elected by Republican primary voters in each of Pennsylvania’s 18 congressional districts (three per district) remain legally “uncommitted.”
They are not bound to vote for any particular candidate and are free to exercise their own judgment in selecting a nominee.
That means there is no guarantee – whatsoever – that the majority of Pennsylvania’s delegates will go with the winner of the Pennsylvania primary.
In short, Donald Trump could win the popular vote in Pennsylvania but lack the organizational infrastructure to fill a slate of delegates who support his candidacy.
- Salena Zito
szito@tribweb.com
If true, this explains the National Enquirer article. GOPe has found a way to get rid of Trump without Ted. And now that Ted has outlived his usefulness they’re getting rid of him. Long term.
What evidence do you have that they won’t?
So voting is a farce???... Why bother? To fool the yokels? Eff the little bastards... it's time to walk away from the GOP...
Is being “uncommitted” like voting “present”?
Mark Twain
I’ve already missed the boat. The email I have came w/8 named delegates and I can choose 3. I have zero idea who they are or how they lean (but I can guess it isn’t Trump).
> That sounds like a BRILLIANT plan!
It is, because they get what they want with Hilary. They won’t with Trump. GOPe could not care less if they lose, since they only want their and their donor’s seats at the table. If we let them, they will happily lose. And then they will set about crafting rules to block another Trump from ever getting into the nomination process.
No, the uncommitted will vote for whomever they choose to. Paul Ryan anybody?
What is the point of the voting charade if it does not count for anything?
Someone start a party where the winner of the popular vote wins, period.
Anyone that remains a Republican after this election is a fool.
Cool!!
Sadly, not news.
PA has always been a wildcard.
Their loophole style delegate selection is the worst remaining ridiculous way of selecting a nominee.
I opined a couple weeks it is why I thought Kasich went to PA day after OH.
> Trump won’t need those delegates to clinch 1237.
Allowing for only 14 PA delegates, my own projections still show Trump getting between 531 to 570 of the remaining, enough to be well over 1237. This election has been quite an interesting ride so far.
If the party wins the delegate elections in the 18 districts, they will vote what the GOPe wants them to.
The Trump campaign has its candidates on the lists. They need to get to the voters in the 18 congressional districts to tell them who the Trump people are and vote for them.>>>> you don’t select the delegates under the candidate only the candidate. there are 18 delegates who are republican operatives that you told to vote for trump. will they? there will probably be 10 people who vote republican here in philly dist 1.
I figure that too. The insane position that the GOPe puts themselves in, is that "IF" Trump fall just short, do they really want to disenfranchise millions of voters? It appears that they do.
In physics nomenclature, what you describe is “leverage”. That’s the third side of the coin their flipping!
Post 3-22 20 Contests Remain
% Dels
MT,NJ,NY = WTA ( 3 out of 5 )
100% 173
CA
60% 103
CT,DE,RI
19% 12
IN,NM,OR,WA,WI,WV
45% 103
CO,MD,ND,PA,WY
45% 91
483 + 755 = 1238
Even with a really pessimistic result, Trump gets enough, IMHO.
I'll push the straight rat button along with the rest of Philly.
I agree. I think a strategy of letting the down ticket PA candidates know that they will suffer should those 54 uncommitted delegates stray from the reservation.
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