Posted on 01/03/2008 11:01:00 AM PST by Baladas
All the better.
He will sweep the Blue States. That will get him close.By that time, some of these other "extras" will be broke. And this wont go to a brokered convention most likely, not with backroom swapping of candidates and whatnot before the convention.. IMO.
So, at that point, delegates can vote however they choose, correct?
Good example. I agree California is hard to call. The districts are very different. And I wouldn’t leave Ron Paul out of that entirely. His campaign (along with Giuliani’s) have been working the smaller Democrat-heavy districts to take advantage of the new method of counting delegates. Only time will tell if they are successful.
> Assuming the Congressional districts split in a similar
> manner, Rudy gets nowhere near 173 delegates out of CA.
> Rudy 25.7
> Huck 16.3
...
Just because Rudy only has 26% of the vote doesn’t mean that he will only get 26% of the delegates. If he is ahead in every district, he will get them all.
If by "choose" you mean extorted, arm twisted, bought off and quid pro quoed into line, I guess so. The Rules just say that votes are called until a majority is reached. IIRC, Lincoln's nomination took over 100 ballots.
Plenty in Orlando.
True enough, but it’s the best indicator we have. Gut feeling is Rudy takes the hard core urban areas, Romney the suburbs, McCain and/or Hunter take the military bases, Fred in the more Central Valley and rural districts, and Huck suffers for his immigration and foreign policy stances, fades before the 5th. Paul picks up Mount Shasta, due to harmonic convergence.
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