[wildandcrazyrussian]

Here in WV, there was massive disillusionment about the deal worked out between the Ron Paul and McCain supporters to throw their votes to Huckabee so as to deprive Romney of a clear victory. In retrospect, the state party seems unlikely ever to try that "first state convention in the country" thing ever again. On the first vote, Romney received 40% of the 1500 and others were way behind. In a normal method, he would have picked up the rest of the votes to win it, as expected by the state party.

The reason for the convention was to set it up so that for once WV could have a voice in national politics, since the May primary is set by the 78%-Democrat legislature and is always too late to count for anything. But the way it worked out backfired, since essentially the deal between 126 McCain supporters and 200 Paul supporters with Huckabee had nothing at all to do with what 300,000 GOP voters might have wanted if asked.

[Deagle]

Yep, politics sucks! Still better than say Cuba or Russia or others that would just remove the opponents by force. Unfortunately, nothing illegal, just immoral and a give-a-damn for the people... Bring it to the public, and then there will be change.