We need this to end.
Posted on 04/01/2016 11:15:47 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Yes - two for the rules committee, two for the credentials committee and two for the platform committee.
If Candidate A has a majority/plurality of delegates in a particular state, it stands to reason that those delegates will collude to make sure that two of them are chosen rather than sending anyone from Candidate B who got a minority of delegates. IOW, the system for getting members on the rules writing committee benefits the candidate who has won the most states.
That would be true if the candidate gets to select the delegates to go on the committees. But in many cases, the delegates selected to go on the committees are elected by the state convention or selected by the party chairs. And even if the delegates that are selected are committed to vote for Trump on the first ballot, they may not actually be Trump supporters - they may be Cruz supporters, or they may just be party activists. So just because Trump won the state does not mean he will automatically get a say in who goes on the committees from that state. He has to be working in the state conventions to accomplish that.
That’s right out of the Clinton’s operations manual.
Yeah, I guess that can happen when you’re not a politician and it’s your first campaign. Apparently, you don’t think that’s refreshing and instead want a political hack as the next POTUS.
I understand all that. That was why Trump hired Manafort.
Trump’s campaign is on it now, at least in Missouri, where he won 37 delegates and Cruz won 15. I’m registered to attend the caucus here April 9th (yup, we had a primary, now we gotta have a caucus too) to vote for Trump delegates to the - get this - State convention in Branson in May to “select delegates to go to the national convention.”
I never realized there were all these levels to the process of getting our candidate’s delegates there. I was only 24 when I was an alternate delegate to State in Texas for Goldwater, but I’m sure there wasn’t all this to it back then, far more levels for chicanery.
I can’t be a district delegate here and go to the State in May: it’s too far for me to be able to drive and pointless anyway as I could never get to Ohio. I’ve just gotta be sure I get somebody going for Trump. Something has gone very wrong in this country in the last 52 years.
Well, yeah, as if we didn’t all know that.
“Something has gone very wrong in this country in the last 52 years”
Thank you for your report. It appears that the GOP has slowly gained more power over the voters. This is what the revolt and the Tea Party is all about. Power back to the voters.
The RNC can change the rules any time they want. That’s one of the rules.
They pi** on voters and don’t care. This is the first time in decades that a non-political insider ran and had a chance of winning. They cannot allow that. The Uniparty has now revealed itself for everyone not willfully blind to see.
That is from Washington’s Farewell Address, which I read the other day. Maybe I’ll post it tomorrow. Political parties are the enemy of an honest representative republic.
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