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[BOB DINGSDALE]

Starting in July there will be CROW on all menu's in the U S sources tell me. After the GOP convention.

[41chevy]

After the convention . . .there with be massive civil unrest.

[RowdyRebel]

Problem is, people just don't understand the process. We have NEVER elected a president. The electoral college has. The states determine who gets to be an elector, and those are the only votes that really matter. If nobody can get to the required 270 electoral vote majority (50% + 1), then the newly elected House of Representatives gets to select the president from the top 3 electoral vote-getters. You need a MAJORITY (50% + 1) to win. Period.

 

The GOP nomination process is no different. You need a majority (50% + 1) to get the nomination. The delegates may be bound on the first ballot or two based upon the states sending them to convention...but if EVERY delegate was bound for EVERY ballot, there could be no resolution to the issue if nobody gets the majority. States who bound their delegates early in the cycle for candidates who are no longer in the race are among those likely to flip to another candidate on the 2nd and later ballots...it is the ONLY way to achieve a majority if nobody gets there on the first ballot.

 

I guess the thing that irks me the most is that many states have "open" primaries, allowing democrats to "cross over" to vote in the GOP primary, and vice versa. A Democrat should not get to vote for who the Republicans nominate, and a Republican should have no say in who the Democrats nominate. As long as this practice continues to exist, the parties need to have a mechanism for overriding the will of opposition voters infiltrating during the primary process. The Democrats have their "super" delegates. The GOP has "unbound" delegates.  

 

What amuses me the most is that Trump's own kids couldn't vote for him in the primaries...because they aren't registered as Republicans. Question I have, is what ARE they registered as? That and WHY didn't they get that registration changed on time? Did they not expect their dad to still be in the race? I didn't expect Cruz to do well in NY simply because a lot of conservatives in the state are registered as Conservative, NOT Republican, and as such could not vote in the primary. Bernie had similar issues on the Democrat side, where many of his supporters are registered as Independent and therefore could not participate in the Democrat primary. It is easy to "win" when your opposition's supporters can't participate.

[41chevy]

Here you can't vote in a primary if your registered as and Independent.

[RowdyRebel]

...I thought I'd just said that...

[41chevy]

You did. But in  NY in 2011/12 the law was changed so any registered voter could vote in the primaries . GOP for GOP Dems for Dems and the Independents were the wild cards. The rule was changed again 2 weeks before the last primaries by the board of elections back to the original statute.    Paul

Edited April 25, 2016 by 41chevy