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The IDEA that someone can be nominated with a consistent 60% against him is so ridiculous, I can’t even think about it.


74 posted on 03/18/2012 2:44:42 PM PDT by Jim Noble ("The Germans: At your feet, or at your throat" - Winston Churchill)
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To: Jim Noble
The IDEA that someone can be nominated with a consistent 60% against him is so ridiculous, I can’t even think about it.

This is due to rules like winner-take-all, top-2-only, etc. plus the superdelegates who are party members who choose their own candidate. Mitt may have only 40% of the popular vote, but he has over 50% of the delegates. If that trend holds, he'll get the nomination. This is why in a multi-candidate race, voters ought to be able to rank the candidates or score the candidates rather than just pick one. Knowing who a person's second or third choice is is important and should be counted in the vote tallying somehow.

89 posted on 03/18/2012 3:32:35 PM PDT by JediJones (The Divided States of Obama's Declaration of Dependence: Death, Taxes and the Pursuit of Crappiness)
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