I like Dick Armey and Freedom Works.
I despise Mitt Romney. He is an elitist phoney.
Am convinced his win in Illinois in the GOP Primary is driven by Dem Ops voting in the GOP Primary.
A big part of the problem is the delegate selection process which over weighs a state's population versus the likelihood they will actually vote for the GOP candidate.
This cycle, there are 2286 delegates to be chosen. Just to pick a random example or two: the District of Columbia gets to pick 19 delegates, North Dakota gets 28. The probability of them actually delivering 3 electoral votes for the eventual GOP nominee is something like 90% for North Dakota and less than 0% for DC.
Every state or territory should start with the number of delegates they would get based on their electoral vote power. There would be a minimum of 3 for every territory except maybe 7 for Puerto Rico which would be its equivalent electoral votes if it were a state.
After that, delegates would be awarded based on the actual number of electoral votes delivered to the GOP candidate for the last four or five election cycles, with a little more weight given to the more recent results.
Bonus delegates would be assigned for GOP governors, U.S. senators, congress people and state legislatures.
Additional bonus delegates would be assigned to those voting in April, May or June and those awarding delegates proportionally rather than winner-take-all.
It really doesn't bother me that under this formula Texas would have more delegates than California despite having lower population. In fact, it is a fair way to encourage California to do something to have a greater voice in the delegate selection process.
In 20-20 hindsight, we should have seen this coming.