Posted on 10/14/2011 12:50:47 PM PDT by casablanca
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has joined other candidates in boycotting the Nevada caucus unless the state moves its caucus date back to appease New Hampshire.
Cain's New Hampshire campaign co-chair Jack Kimball confirmed the decision Friday.
"Mr. Cain believes Nevada is making a bad problem worse, exacerbating a situation started by Florida moving it's primary into January," Kimball said.
Read more: http://www.wmur.com/new-hampshire-primary-extended-coverage/29487020/detail.html#ixzz1amrmWsD2
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This is a mistake.
Either way, I’ll be caucusing for Cain.
Not by Cain. He’s joining almost all the others in the boycott. Romney’s people are pushing the date up for his advantage. Time to put the foot down. Pretty soon, we’ll be voting in primaries 2 years before the election if this crap keeps up
Lame. States can caucus or have a primary when they please. If Cain doesn’t like it, don’t compete in it.
Nevada caucus..sold to the highest bidder..fully rigged
The way it is done now is BS by allowing a handful of states to be the ones who pick our candidate. I say we have a national primary day and let the chips fall where they may.
The way it is done now is BS by allowing a handful of states to be the ones who pick our candidate. I say we have a national primary day and let the chips fall where they may.
You are correct, it is totally rigged. I have been involved with the Nevada caucus for over 12 years.
I quit the Republican Party last election here in Nevada when the powers that be inside it stabbed Angle in the back and gave their support to Harry Reid.
Now they are backing Romney. Suprise suprise suprise.
God Bless you.
“I say we have a national primary day and let the chips fall where they may.”
I like that idea! Drop it in the GOP suggestion box—I’m sure they care.
Completely pathetic, wasn’t it? Sheesh.
[ I say we have a national primary day and let the chips fall where they may. ]
DAMN RIGHT!
Then after that day we have another primary day of the candidates taht are left over and they get picked as the Vice President Nominee.
We need to do this all at once to prevent the “sheep effect” that state primaries encourage. And make all primaries closed primaries as well.
We need to tout this as a true “The people of rht GOp Pick” and expose the hypocrisy of the whole “DNC Super-duper-lloper delegate” system.
The state organizations are part of a national organization. If they violate the rules of the national organization, then members who respect the national organization are correct in refusing patronage to the violating entity.
You don’t think that the national organization is going to ignore the Nevada Caucus results, do you?
We’ll have to see ... this is a Romney year and I find it doubtful Nevada, a Romney state, will be penalized.
You are correct, it is totally rigged. I have been involved with the Nevada caucus for over 12 years.
The leadership at the caucus (small town, conservative county) had no clue, or pretended to. The delegates were selected by volunteering. Basically who jumped up first. There as NO correlation between the caucuses’ candidate preferences and who was selected. (Ron Paul’s people jumped up fast).
I later contacted the party, squawked, and was told I could attend the next level convention as a delegate (again, not having been selected by my fellow citizens).
This time, I’m going to stand up, be a PITA, and ask “Who’s in charge? How many delegates does this caucus elect? How are those delegates selected?” And I will vocally persist in an attempt to reach some kind of fairness and take it out of the hands of the party insiders.
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