Posted on 03/22/2012 11:07:20 AM PDT by Josh Painter
If Newt Gingrich fails to win five states, he might not be eligible in the first round of voting at the Republican National Convention.
That doesn’t mean he can’t be the nominee, and it may not even complicate his chances any further than they already have been...
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If no candidate wins on the first round of voting, primary and caucus results will matter progressively less. Some states’ delegates are bound by primary results only through the first round of convention voting. Others’ are bound through the second and third.
If Gingrich enters the convention ineligible, he can still win on later rounds of voting.
An RNC official acknowledged that on later rounds of voting, it would be possible for a motion to be made to nominate a candidate who did not qualify on previous rounds. Essentially, the nomination-for-the-nomination process begins anew. At that point, a new candidate could demonstrate plurality support from five states and qualify.
Gingrich, or anyone else who can demonstrate support from five states on a later voting round — Ron Paul? Chris Christie? Sarah Palin? Mike Bloomberg? Dennis Kucinich? — will be eligible to win the nomination.
It also bears mentioning that Gingrich wouldn’t have to win five primaries or caucuses to demonstrate support from five states. No delegates from Iowa, Minnesota, Wyoming, Maine, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Montana are bound to their state results, meaning they can support whomever they choose.
So if Gingrich intends to keep running until the convention, even if he never wins another state, he’ll continue to be a technically viable candidate under party rules.
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“it will be someone who hasn’t run”
And if it is a real Conservative then we still win.
Some of us are wanting a brokered convention we have to serve notice on the GOP-e that we want go quietly into the night. And right now Newt is our mouthpiece.
Go Newt
If only two candidates can be nominated on the first ballot, the first ballot will be the only ballot unless Paul and Ginchrich delegates (assuming they’re the odd men out) voluntarily abstain.
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I've been developing a suspicion/fantasy that the plan is to keep WrongMee from getting over the top during the primaries, so there is some degree or other of brokered convention. Then Newt proposes a Palin/Gingrich or Gingrich/Palin ticket, and asks uncommitted and newly unbound (assuming they make it past round 1) delegates to vote for that ticket. A number of things have made me suspicious about this.
"I'm not so sure you wouldn't get a series of brand new players" stepping forward during a brokered convention, he told Morning Edition co-host Steve Inskeep.
Great so going into the General, Newt will have Georgia at 15 electorals and SC which has 8. He will be starting off with 23 electoral college. We need to do better than that if we are going to beat Obama.
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