Rick Santorum's Pennsylvania Delegates Uncertain Even With Popular Vote Win

http://www.homepuzz.com/norma/status/1a5ed4# ^ | 4 April 2012 | Anna Staver

[Vigilanteman]

Rick Santorum's campaign has placed its hopes squarely on the Pennsylvania primary on April 24, after a near shutout in terms of delegates in Tuesday night's primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, D.C.

While winning the Pennsylvania primary may be critical for the momentum of Santorum's presidential campaign, a win in his home state won't necessarily do anything to help him garner more delegates.

Delegates chosen in the Keystone State's primary are not bound to support any candidate, said Valerie Caras, communications director for the Republican Party of Pennsylvania.

Potential delegate candidates can try to inform voters that they intend "to bind themselves to a particular candidate," Caras said. "But they are considered to be unpledged or unbound and free to vote for whomever they choose when they get to the floor."

[Vigilanteman]

I hate quoting from a source which links to Huffington's rag, but this time the information is correct.

I just got my absentee ballot. The presidential vote is basically advisory. Each of our 18 congressional districts is electing four delegates, only one of whom on a list of a dozen is personally known to me to be a Santorum supporter.

And I'm a political junkie. How likely do you think it will be for the average voter to pick delegates?

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Regardless of PA, which Santo is now losing (tanking) in quite fast, Romney will take at least 60 to 70% of the delegates on the east Coast states on the 24th and even if he loses PA he will still take, nearly half of the Delegates there.

The delegate haul Romney will gain from that day alone will force Santorum to have to take over 90% of all the remaining delegates, which since most are closed proportional, is absolutely impossible, and Romney cannot be prevented from getting the 1144 if they evenly split the delegates from here on out.

It's over, the only one who can't see that is Santorum and his fanatical supporters.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Let’s face it - the GOP-E is going to do everything in its power to make sure that Mitt “My Turn” Romney is the nominee.

So what are you all going to do about?

Roll over and take it, or do something about it?

[Vigilanteman]

The logical thing to do is push for rule reforms which will give more delegates to states which actually deliver electoral votes to the GOP and less delegates to states which don't, especially those with high populations like California, Massachusetts and Illinois.

The next thing to do is understand that even a candidate from the RINO wing of the GOP is still far superior to an America hating Marxist.

The worst thing to do is pretend there is no difference between a possibly trainable RINO and a hard-core Marxist or, even fly off into moonbat land, claiming that the RINO would be worse.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Well, you're never going to get meaningful reforms that correct the problem through an exec committee dominated by the very GOP-Ers who benefit from the problem. So scratch that.

As for the rest, I think it's really a fool's errand to try to pretend that there's any substantive difference between Rombama and ORomney. That's just the typical line the base is fed by the GOP-E to try to scare/justify them into going with the RINO candidate just one more time because of how scary the alternative is.

We're fools if we fall for it again. If we can't at least make the effort to shake the system up and change it for the betterment of the country and conservatism, if all we're going to do is whine about how we might as well go for Romney since he's slightly less bad than Obama, then we might as well pack it all in and write America off as over and done with completely.

[Vigilanteman]

Shaking up the system is working in the primary system and getting delegate allocation rules rewritten to give more to states which actually deliver electoral votes to the GOP in the fall at the expense of those who do not.

Too many conservatives tried shaking up the system by sitting out election cycles in 2006 and 2008. Look what we ended up with.

If ObaMao was just another garden variety liberal like Walter Mondale or even John Kerry, I might be willing to give your suggested sabatoge the GOP solution one more try. But we very well could not have a country by 2016 if we insist on doing it now.

Look at Wisconsin-- slightly more left leaning than your average American state, but not much. They have a courageous GOP governor who has actually shown shown conservatism dramatically works. And, still, he's fighting for political survival. Running away and starting a Third Party at this particular juncture won't do a damn thing to help people like him . . . or anyone else contemplating equally courageous moves.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Thank you for your opinion, it is duly noted.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Thank you for your opinion, it is duly noted.

[Elvina]

Roll over and take it, or do something about it?

Well I'm certainly not going to call Mitt a winner when he is nowhere near 1144, just because Karl Rove and George Stephanopholus say I should. I'm going to keep supporting Santorum.

[hinckley buzzard]

I hear we're going to get rain on Easter-- should we roll over and take it, or do something about it?

[Yashcheritsiy]

I hear we're going to get rain on Easter-- should we roll over and take it, or do something about it?

I guess you should roll over and take it - since that seems to be what you're good at.