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To: JRochelle

Are delegates bound legally to the candidate or can they break away?


58 posted on 02/10/2008 10:41:51 AM PST by svcw (The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.)
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To: svcw
Are delegates bound legally to the candidate or can they break away?

Most are legally bound for one or two ballots. Never heard of anybody going to jail for 'breaking faith'.

68 posted on 02/10/2008 11:17:07 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Mike Huckabee: If Gomer Pyle and Hugo Chavez had a love child this is who it would be.)
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To: svcw
Are delegates bound legally to the candidate or can they break away?

Most are legally bound for one or two ballots. Never heard of anybody going to jail for 'breaking faith'.

69 posted on 02/10/2008 11:17:08 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Mike Huckabee: If Gomer Pyle and Hugo Chavez had a love child this is who it would be.)
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To: svcw

The delegates are bound on the first ballot.


78 posted on 02/10/2008 11:47:37 AM PST by Perdogg (Vice President Richard B Cheney - A National Treasure)
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