Posted on 01/03/2008 5:33:21 AM PST by Nextrush
Ordinary people get to caucus, but the candidate has to get over a certain percentage of the vote to get a delegate and then those delegates are what is counted, correct?
As I understand it: you do a show-of-hands vote first and that gets called in. That’s what gets reported as the “Iowa caucus vote”. Then you choose delegates to the county convention. These delegates aren’t required to vote for any candidate at all. So, say, Romney could “win” a precinct’s show of hands, but the guys who are elected as delegates are personally for McCain and Thompson. It doesn’t really matter because the delegates get winnowed down until the state convention when the state’s delegation to the national convention is selected. I don’t know how they make sure that the guy who “wins” Iowa actually gets the delegates or not.
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If I lived there I’d vote my conscience for Duncan Hunter with Fred T second.
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Iowa do your thing..... let the weeding process begin.
“After we met some of the sorry candidates running for POTUS, it’s clear that Duncan Hunter is our man!”
Duncan Hunter is a conservative’s conservative.
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I couldn’t agree more.
Show the MSM they don’t know what they are talking about!!!
Vote Hunter!!!
You are mostly correct. There is a paper ballot vote, not a “show of hands.” And you are correct that the eventual convention delegates are not actually bound to support any candidate.
it may be a good idea to vote tactically for Romney to build him up to defeat McCain...
If you really want to confuse things in hope of a real conservative emerging later in the contests, maybe you should go with Huckabee.
Gee, I thought I was indecisive!
Well, that’s what happens when you’re uncommitted, vote on principles and able to see what might happen if you don’t vote tactically, too.
Too soon to focus on tactics. We haven’t even had the first primary vote yet.
Vote your principles.
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