Posted on 03/15/2012 7:37:53 PM PDT by God-fear-republican
We're fixin' to see some of the most interesting times since the Fall of Rome; perhaps like the Revolution, or the Civil War.
In spite of the discomfort or unpleasantness ahead, it's just delightful to see the look in people's eyes when the light comes on, and they realize how utterly stupid they and their comrades have been. One early freeper called this the "Oh Sh!t" epiphany.
It isn't just the Democrats that are in for a rude awakening. Liberal Republicans, evangelicals, religious fruitcakes of all sorts, jock faggots, corporate snakes, gamers, hollywood groupies -- anybody hiding out in their own fantasia -- can have their world turned upside-down, and everything they thought they believed shown to have been a huge pack of lies.
It's long overdue.
You are so smart. You maybe my idol :)
You are so smart.
I`m not. Ask anyone that knows me :)
“...he (Newt) can’t win even in the South.”
Winning with a third of the vote is nothing to brag about. None of them are finishing strong, anywhere.
“Winning with a third of the vote is nothing to brag about. None of them are finishing strong, anywhere.”
OK, so you say that the three are each getting about one third.
Do you think that by the convention it will be split that it will go brokered and Newt might pull it off?
Just wondering how that would work.
In a brokered convention, I assume that voting starts over on new candidates nominated? Wouldn’t delegates for each candidate simply nominate their guy again, repeating the split?
“Do you think that by the convention it will be split that it will go brokered and Newt might pull it off? Just wondering how that would work.”
With Newt staying in I don’t think Romney will have the requisite 1144 delegates to win the nomination outright. There will be 2 months between the last primary and the convention. If Newt can finish strong in the later primaries and he goes into the convention strong, with momentum, anything can happen. If the delegates vote based on the 4 candidates making an impassioned plea for their respective candidacies at the convention, I’m putting my money on Newt.
There are 580 unbound delegates out of 2280 total who can vote for any candidate. So if Romney does not have 1144 delegates prior to the national convention, anything can happen in the first round voting. After the first round, every delegate becomes unbound, therefore, he/she can vote for any candidate. In this case, an inspiring speaker like Newt will have good chance to win over majority of delegates.
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