Pennsylvania delegation
Submitted by Brad.king92 on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 17:04in
According to green papers, the results of the Pennsylvania primary has nothing to do with the delegation. The delegates will appear on the ballots along with the candidates, so if you want your candidate to win you must vote for their delegates as well.
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/PA-R
Can someone explain to me what the point of this is? After all, if someone is gonna vote for Romney, they would obviously vote for his delegates too wouldn't they? So whats the point of doing it this way rather than just making it proportional? Or do they just expect some people to be stupid enough to vote for their candidate but not the delegates?
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PA delegates
The delegates are unbound in PA. The elections today are a beauty contest.
District delegates can pledge to support a candidate, support the winner of the district popular vote, support the state's choice as nominee or support the national party nominee.
The average voter will NOT take the time to research who the delegate choices are and how they plan to vote. As a result of this, local GOPs are employing tricks by passing out sample ballots with establishment delegates as the only delegates on the ballots.
But Ron Paul voters are not average. We know the process. We know beauty contests mean nothing and we know getting delegates are everything. Via groups like meetup, RP rallies, college campus clubs, craigslist, flyers and boots on the ground at polling places, we will get the word out about our delegates in PA and we will be heard at the convention.
It is impossible to restrain an idea whose time has come.
It doesn't say on the ballot
It doesn't say on the ballot which delegates support which candidates. The delegates don't even have to have declared a candidate to support, and can change. Some are waiting to see who wins the state. Some will support the presumptive nominee at the convention whoever that is. Some will vote for a specific candidate no matter what.
Illinois allocated their
Illinois allocated their delegates in the same way. Rachel Maddow showed a picture of the ballot in Illinois and the ballot showed which candidate every delegate supported. I'm not sure if the ballots are the same way in Illinois or not. Hopefully this will give Dr. Paul a chance to get more delegates even if Romney wins.
Brad
in Illinois it showed the candidate name
but in Pennsylvania it doesn't.
Off topic -- Shazad, I posted again:
http://www.dailypaul.com/226948/what-happened-wyoming#commen...
I was hoping you could look at what I wrote before the polls closed tonight, because some of what I say in the post may soon become obsolete. Thanks.
A Constitutional, Christian conservative who voted for Ron and stands with Rand