The rigging of the delegate game begins after that and arms get broken and rules "adjusted&" at state conventions. We must be at our state conventions, so put a couple of night's stay back in the piggy bank.
Thanks for the info. Didn't know that. Like I said, I'm naive about the inner workings of this. Any FReepers that know more about the process can inform the rest of us.
So the state conventions are that important, even if say, Trump is way ahead on paper, they can still "rig" the system for say, a Jeb? What a mess. .
So we should all go to the state conventions? Do you have to be a 'state delegate' to even get in? Again, do not know the process and I would guess most Americans don't. No excuse, just stating a probability. Any ways we can have a voice in the state conventions will be highly appreciated.
On the night of your state PRIMARY vote, on PRIMARY NIGHT, you go to your little PRECINCT meeting, RIGHT after the polls close at 7:00 PM.
(Usually there is a sign on the door, when you day vote, saying where, and when, your precinct meeting is held, on that very same evening of the vote.)
At the PRECINCT meeting you will volunteer to go to your COUNTY convention, scheduled for a certain upcoming date, and you go there, as a delegate from your little precinct.
At the COUNTY convention, you volunteer to go to your STATE CONVENTION, as a delegate from your district.
At the STATE convention you and your other county delegates will be divided and some of you will represent TRump, or Cruz, or Rubio, etc.
At the STATE convention you come as a district delegate, from different counties, AND as delegates for different candidates.
At the STATE convention is also where your state platform is designed and recommendations are voted on, to send up to the NATIONAL convention.
At STATE, you will hear persuasive arguments to support another candidate, and you will switch your vote, or you will stick to represent those who sent you there for your candidate X.
YOU are a delegate right up to the last minute, depending on your state rules, and can change or stick with your candidate.
At STATE, you can volunteer to be a STATE delegate or an “alternate” delegate to go to the NATIONAL CONVENTION in wherever.. be it Philadelphia or Denver, etc. You pay for room and board and air, and transportation, everything, but get a nice room rate in a nice hotel.
Marcella, this little version is for TEXAS, an open primary state. Can you add anything, for Idaho being much different in precinct, county, state or national convention process?