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“If you believe the RNC rather than the voters nominated McCain, it would help if you explained how.”

Its because the current Republican process for nominating a candidate is broken. Unless there is overwhelming enthusiasm for a candidate, there is no way we should be down to one candidate before many of us even had the chance to vote. Here in WA, we don’t vote until the 9th.

IF we were to assign delegates in the same way the Democrats do “proportional” it would still be neck and neck between McCain and Romney with Romney slightly ahead.

This was sent to me by my district Republicans.

What would the Republican race look like today if every state Republican party were using a proportional allocation to the candidates? That is if anyone who got 10% or more was in on the allocation depending on the percentage of the vote he/she drew? I went through all 29 states where Republicans have selected delegates and re-allocated them based on this formula. The result is quite different from what we see today. It is quite surprising no matter who you support. Only the four candidates still in the race are considered. This is laid out against the current delegate count.
Candidate.........Current....Proportional
Mike Huckabee.....176.........212
John McCain.........680.........424
Mitt Romney.........270.........431
Ron Paul................16..........35

They structured the caucuses such that independents had more influence earlier in the cycle thereby removing the most conservative candidates early. I have every confidence Thompson would have done extremely well in the south. Unfortunately he didn’t see it that way because of the early returns.

The GOP selection process should be reserved for GOP members. I also suspect there were a few Dem’s registered as Republicans causing mischief as they are desperate for the white house. Not recognizing there willingness to game the system would be naive (just look at the participation they are seeing at their caucuses).

The primary process was rigged to give us a ‘mainstream moderate’ candidate. Well they have him now. I never even hjad the chance to vote for the nominee before McCain sealed it. How about one big primary where all states vote on one day. Everyone has a say. It is ridiculous to allow New York and California voters to choose the candidate.