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To: VeniVidiVici
>Wow! I didn’t know this!

How on earth do people NOT know this??
Its been common knowledge for 35 years.

In 1988, Reverend Jesse Jackson challenged the notion that these appointed delegates be permitted to vote for the candidate of their choosing rather than the winner of the state's caucus or primary. He was right to do so.

He may have been "right" in some sense, but not in the sense of that old document "The Constitution."

The way in which individual States choose their electors is up to them, and political parties fall outside of the Constitution altogether.

Nothing whatsoever will come of any outcome except that the democrat party will select a candidate. - And the people of America have no legal standing in how they do that.

Then again, they don't have to vote for hillary. - but they will

17 posted on 01/05/2008 11:41:50 AM PST by bill1952 (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
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To: bill1952

Most people don’t know it.


20 posted on 01/05/2008 11:49:24 AM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: bill1952
The way in which individual States choose their electors is up to them, and political parties fall outside of the Constitution altogether.

I knew that which is why I was against Florida shelling out money for a Democrat primary if the Democrat Party wasn't going to count the Florida delegates. Same reason why I'm against states that pass laws saying that independents (or anyone) can vote in a particular party's primary. If they want to help select the Party representative in the general election they should belong to the Party.

What I did not know is that delegates are under no obligation to vote for who the people chose. Live and learn.

66 posted on 01/05/2008 1:15:47 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Jay Grodner stands accused of keying a Marine's car. He's also a lawyer.)
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