Effort underway to turn Texas into winner-take-all state

Daily Caller ^ | April 6, 2012 | Caroline May

[Mozilla]

Good news if this is going to happen. Texas won't go to Romney.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Works for me.

Anybody but Obama (or Romney).

[WackySam]

I’m no fan fan of Romney, but this is bull$hit.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

This thing will backfire on Santorum and his fanatics big time. This will absolutely, ruin his political future. It looks petty, whiny and desperate. He will forever wear this label and it will cost him even more support.

But they refuse to listen to reasonable advice. Nobody from their side, can not claim that there has not been enough logical advice given, to save them from further embarrassment.

[throwback]

Wacky Texans seceding from the Republican Party? Too hot, or I'd move there.

[af_vet_rr]

I’m no fan fan of Romney, but this is bull$hit.

It is because the Santorum folks want a couple of other states to go from winner-take-all to proportional. It's just political maneuvering.

[af_vet_rr]

Good news if this is going to happen. Texas won't go to Romney.

5 out of the 6 largest cities in Texas went for Obama in 2008, and Fort Worth wasn't far from making it 6-for-6. Romney does best in areas that are liberal.

The Texas legislature is led by a Democrat with an (R) next to his name. Romney has Lamar Smith in his pocket, and God only knows who else.

It's going to be a tough fight.

[Born to Conserve]

This is the last presidential election with a republican party. Next cycle; demublicans vs. the Tea Party.

[willgolfforfood]

I thought the rules of these primaries were that after Super Tuesday all Republican primaries were to be winner-take-all. Before that date they were proportional. So Texas should be winner take all.

If I am remembering this correctly.

[GeronL]

Isn’t it a bit late in the game to be changing the rules though?

Otherwise, I’m fine with it

[Verginius Rufus]

Florida was winner-take-all but they were penalized by getting only half as many delegates as they would have if they had played by the RNC rules. After the primary Gingrich tried to get the Florida delegates shared, but haven’t heard anything lately about that.

[TLI]

I figured it would go this way when the redistricting lawsuit came up. Unintended consequence of the “hispanics” attempted power grab through the liberal judges initial ruling.

It pushes the primary back to after April 1, thus easily opening the door to switching back to Winner-Take-All.

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[Vendome]

So Effing cheaters is what we are now?

Changing the rules in the middle of the game is stacking the deck and ain’t right.

How many other Florida’s and Lone Star states are we going to go along with for this crap?

[packrat35]

I agree. Not a fan of Romney either, but changing the rules in the middle of the game is something liberals specialize at.

[Bailee]

Santorum needs to be very carefull. He may get more than he bargained for. The Large population centers will vote for Mittens just like that have in all the Previous Southern States. That is a fact just look at any of the maps this primary Season.

Mittens has a very good GOTV and plenty of Money. Santorum appears to be Tired and we know he is Under Funded. Make TX a winner take all and Mittens will unleash Bloody Tuesday II on Santorum count on it.

If Mittens gets 155 Delegates from TX well its over. If Mittens splits TX with Santorum then we have a chance at Tampa.

[onyx]

At least, thanks to you, I wasn’t surprised.

[deport]

Redistricting has made the Texas Primary a drawn out process as the district lines were being established at both the Congressional and state legislative levels. Changes have been made along the way to the primary election process but they never tried to change the proportional allocation until now. Politics....

Current method of Allocation of Delegates

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Tuesday 29 May 2012: 152 of Texas's 155 delegates to the Republican National Convention are bound to presidential contenders in today's Texas Presidential Primary. [General Rules for All Conventions and Meetings. Rule 38. Section 8. f.]

From the statewide vote, compute the number of delegates each candidate receives by multiplying that candidate's percentage of the statewide vote by the total number (152) of district and at-large delegates.

• Beginning with the candidate receiving the most votes statewide, round up fractional delegates of 0.51% and above to the next whole number. Round down fractional delegates below 0.51%.
• Repeat for the next highest vote getter until all 152 delegates are bound.

A Presidential candidate may withdraw from participation in the Presidential Primary ... by filing with the Secretary of the SREC a signed and acknowledged request ... votes cast for that candidate shall be deemed votes for uncommitted [Rule 38 - Section 2.d]

In addition to the ballot listing of the names of the qualifying Presidential candidates, there shall appear at the bottom of such listing ... a place designated "Uncommitted" ... [Rule 38 - Section 3.c]

[throwback]

How is it in the middle of the game? Nobody in Texas has voted yet? If Texas had voted before Florida, this might be a different election.

[Grams A]

It is my understanding, after attending a meeting last night, that this will probably not be doable for this year but would/could apply in future elections. With only a few exceptions the major opinion expressed by attendees and presenters was that all primaries need to be held on the same day or at a minimum that Texas should hold their primary the same time as Florida. Of course our biggest problem this year was the Federal government and judges who stuck their nose in our business once again and wouldn’t accept our new redistricting maps.

[ROTB]

>I’m no fan fan of Romney, but this is bull$hit.

That started with:

1) allowing Romney, a democrat to run for the GOP
2) not calling Romney on his racist Mormon cult
3) Romney using his fortune to run negative ads
4) Romney’s endless flip-flopping

Changing the rules lawfully is just that.