[georgiagirl_pam]

Wow, you still don’t get it.

The solid delegates ARE THE ACTUAL DELEGATE COUNT right now.

Soft delegates are UNBOUND. They can decide who they want to vote for when they get to the County, District and State Conventions. THEY can decide whether or not to let the presidential preference vote determine who they cast THEIR delegate vote for. They can vote for any of the candidates!

As I said before, Santorum may end up getting all of the soft delegates converted to solid, pledged delegates. But it hasn’t happened yet...........

[LeopoldvonRanke]

The actual delegate count is the bound + unbound delegates. Those are the delegates that have been earned through the primaries.

I”m aware that WY et al haven’t actually awarded them yet, but they are all we have to go on at this point in time to gage the level of support between all the candidates.

The reason they are unbound is to prevent what happened in MI, FL etc - the halving of their state delegates.

[katiedidit1]

OH they all got "it" when Little Ricky was doing so poorly in the polls and refused to drop out. They were influeneced by the msm after Santorums 3 state win of non binding delegates and you are right...they don't understand that Santorum didnt get any delegates in those states and there was a very low voter turnout to boot.

I won't vote for either RS or MR...for me it is Newt or else.