Bawhahahha...that is simply wild! Can I borrow it?! :)
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Posted on 02/05/2008 6:10:39 AM PST by SE Mom
You should have took it, maybe even have asked for extras. It would have been one less for them to give out.
Ping.
No, not fine.
You did NOT throw your vote away. You voted for the man of your choice.
You are probably right. There are a lot of people in IL voting for Obama. BUT, what I thought was funny was there were several older people joking with the election judges about still being undecided even though they were in line to vote.
Good for you!
Hannity was on Fox and Friends this morning and he was asked about Huckabee’s latest claims that the reason Hannity (and Rush and Levin, etc) was supporting Romney was because Clear Channel was owned by Bain. Hannity laughed and said NO, that’s just not true then named who owns Clear Channel.
I just cannot believe that Huckabee gets away with the lies he spews in the MSM. The man is shameless scum.
LOL!
And for the record, I won’t use mine.
This will be my first presidential primary vote in Tennessee for me. Please explain how you vote for various delegates of the different candidates and what is the reasoning?
Thanks,
Betty Jane
Mary’s (Matalin) Message to the Right
Social conservatives shouldn’t play into McCain’s hand.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YWRlMjkwY2FiOTM5OWIxYjE5N2E5NjU4MzAwMzkyNjc=#more
Conservatives are in a jam of their own making in allowing liberal Republican John McCain to become the party’s frontrunner — and it’s up to them to fix it. That’s the view of Mary Matalin, Republican insider, strategist, and former Fred Thompson supporter.
There’s still a chance for conservatives to rally and make Mitt Romney the GOP nominee — but time is running out.
In an interview with National Review Online, Matalin pulled no punches, arguing that, on Super Tuesday, “A vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain.”
Matalin admits that Romney still faces an uphill battle against McCain for the Republican nomination. But his primary obstacle is the sinking Mike Huckabee, whose presence in the race Matalin finds questionable.
“Rich Lowry has said that Huckabee has a man crush on McCain,” Matalin said. “If Huckabee got out, Romney could win Georgia, Missouri, and probably Tennessee and Alabama. He could pick up a chunk of California, and then it would be a delegate race.”
Huckabee clearly can’t win, so why is he in the race?
“Whether it’s a man crush or the promise of a job — I don’t know what his motive is, but it seems to me that it could be less than pure.”
When asked whether conservative antipathy toward McCain is justified, given that most of his record falls within the GOP mainstream, Matalin explained why she thinks McCain is bad for economic and social conservatives.
“I don’t think he rests comfortably anywhere that conservatives would call home today. If it was true yesterday, it’s not true for tomorrow’s issues. The ones that he has chosen to take a lead on are the ones that conservatives either don’t prioritize or flat-out loathe,” she said.
“We are for tax reform, for aggressive immigration reform, for a traditional reading of the Geneva convention. We’re not for terrorist rights, we’re not against corporations, and we don’t believe that man is melting the earth.”
The prospect of McCain as the Republican nominee highlights a major missed opportunity for conservatives this season, lamented Matalin — who had been supporting Fred Thompson’s ill-fated candidacy.
“You reap what you sow. We like to applaud ourselves as the party of ideas and principle, but we turn out to be the party of performance art.
All we did was gripe about Fred’s performance skills as opposed to his principles and policies — and . . . here we are,” Matalin said. “We let the perfect — as defined by performance — be the enemy of the great.”
Fred Thompson would have been “a great candidate, a great standard bearer for conservatism, and a great president,” Matalin said, and his candidacy’s failure could mean that “we’re going to have to burn down the village.”
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CLICK on “Stream” for the 2/4/08 Mark Levin Show and Mark
and Rush discussing Bob Dole’s letter to Rush:
http://marklevinshow.com/audio.php
His whole rant about McCain is fabulous (Huckabee gets it, too), but when you move the button up to 19:43, you’ll hear Rush call him about the Dole note.
You won’t get any flack from me. You voted your conscience and that is a good thing.
About to vote for Dr. Paul in about an hour. Can’t wait!
There are 12 overall delegates and 3 per county. However, more than 12/3 sometimes run for the delegate slots. You vote your preference for candidate and then pick the delegates you want to send to the convention. Most people will pick the delegates that match their overall choice. I voted Huckabee in the main choice as he is still in the race. However, Fred still could win this county, so I picked people that I knew would be good people to have at the convention.
State-wide, those 12 are split by percentage of the vote (with a 15% minimum showing required for delegates.) If anyone gets 66.6% (I think that’s the threshold) they get all 12. The same rules are applied county by county for the 3/county.
Here is the official:
Tuesday 5 February 2008: 39 of Tennessee’s 55 delegates to the Republican National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders in today’s Tennessee Presidential Primary.
27 district delegates, 3 from each of the 9 congressional districts, are to be allocated to the presidential contenders based on the primary results in that district.
12 at-large delegates are to be allocated to the presidential contenders based on the primary results statewide.
Delegates are allocated to Presidential candidates as follows:
If a candidate receives 66.6% of the vote statewide and 66.6% in each and every congressional district, that candidate receives all delegates from Tennessee.
If no candidate receives 66.6%, delegates are distributed proportionally. If a candidate receives over half of the votes statewide, they will receive seven delegates. The remaining five will be proportioned out among the other candidates receiving more than 20% of the vote.
If no candidate receives 66.6% of the vote in a congressional district, delegates are distributed as follows:
The candidate receiving the most votes receives 2 delegates.
The candidate receiving the next highest number of votes receives 1 delegate.
Bawhahahha...that is simply wild! Can I borrow it?! :)
Wait, that can’t be right! Matalin is just a party insider who pushed Thompson as a stalking horse for McCain, right? Right?!
That’s why I picked Huckabee delegates that I know and trust. All delegates seem to be bound to their advertised candidate for at least one round of voting this time. Then they are free and not bound to vote for who was endorsed.
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