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To: DoodleDawg
A strong conservative couldn't get more than 40 votes.

Usually, this caucus vote would continue multiple times with various slates of contenders, as repeated voting draws out the consensus thinking of the body. If neither remaining candidate can get a majority, then new candidates will step up as factions combine and split with each iteration, until a consensus candidate emerges.

At least, that's how it used to be done before careerists took over and made every vote a scripted, pre-determined outcome that shred only to protect their own interests. Now, lame-duck Boehner is preventing House Republicans from caucusing to discover their mutually agreeable Speaker. Instead, Boehner is slinking back into the back room for more scripting.

-PJ

24 posted on 10/08/2015 12:03:59 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Webster sounded good to me.


53 posted on 10/08/2015 1:45:53 PM PDT by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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