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DONT SEE THE COMPARISON...iran is a country that was holding hostages...while isis is a terrorist group across several countries.....how about we follow the law and stop all immigration instead of banning an entire religion...carter was right to do it and trump is a fascist for suggesting it
DV really got you on that one...............LOL
Got this from another poster on another site...appears to be good advice...
"he only way to fight a brokered convention is to get so much behind one candidate they have to accept him. If we can do that we bust up their control and destroy the power mongers. I believe we can win with Trump. the others would break up the votes and may cause a loss to the democrats. Trump is riding high and we should keep him up there. He can pick one of the other popular for his VP. TC Top Cat Trump Cruz"
Actually if Trump comes in number 1 and Cruz comes in number 2 it is not uncommon for the member two to tell their delegates to switch to the 1st place candidate in exchange for the VP spot. If you remember the 1980 convention that's how Bush came to be VP, and Reagan won in the first round.
In my view as long as Cruz and Trump remain at the top they will have the delegate votes to carry the first round, just don't be surprised if the media tries to drive a wedge between them to keep this from happening.
DV . you brought up a very interesting point in history to compare this too.If you find any research on this , please post a link. I would but my hands are full right now. I think it is something worth spinning around here so we can learn about what may become of a brokered convention.I am sure all the networks will spin this story around to make hay. We here would be well advised to be educated on the topic.
Well the rules are simple, in the first round all delegates are pledged to the candidate who won them in the primary. After the first round the delegates are cut lose to elect the most electable candidate. This is when it gets tricky and you will not find a link to describe what actual happens in any given convention. You see if the delegate was picked by the candidate they are loyal to that candidate after the first round, if the delegate was picked by the party they will vote as the RNC tells them to.
In this election there are four candidates that are picking their own delegates, Trump Cruz, Carson and Bush. With Carson in a tail spin he is unlikely to continue this beyond the early states, Bush even though he does not have the votes to keep going has the money to keep picking his delegates, if he drops they will join the others as RNC loyal delegates.
At the moment both Trump and Cruz have the money and the will to keep picking their delegates all the way to the convention. Trump has said no VP for me so the only way to see a brokered convention stopped is if Cruz comes in number two and joins forces with Trump or if Trump pledges his to Cruz if he came in first.
The other issue that needs to be watched is the winner take all states, this group of states was hand picked to support the establishment candidate. At the moment Cruz is winning 1 and Trump is winning all the others. The tricky part about these states they are all blue except Florida and a very small group of tiny red states. All the big red states are proportional meaning if you get 30% of the vote you get 30% of the delegates. This is how the RNC biases elections in favor of the establishment candidate and against the conservative.
As you can see a simple system gets complicated because of the spin the RNC puts on the nomination process. We will need to wait and see if Trump Cruz takes all the winner take all states to determine if they can bypass a brokered convention or if Trump Cruz can take more then 50% of the vote in the proportional states. My guess is we will have a firm idea after super Tuesday on March 1st. Until then its going to be impossible to speculate what will happen.
I am thinking it is the old bait and switch kind of crap that We The People despise.That tactic will only drive many of us deeper in our resentment of the GOP and RNC.
RINO's control the RNC and have since HW Bush, they are so scared because the President picks the leader of the RNC and if Trump or Cruz win they lose that power. It scares the hell out of them. If it was Trump Cruz, they could lose power for 12 to 14 years, that would kill the RINO's in Washington and they know it.
DV All that know about stuff like this should help us out by posting how it is structured and rules etc...Kev wants to find out more and all of us do I would think...lets us all research etc and see what we are facing..Your is a good post to begin with....
Here is the GOP site that has the basics for all elections.
https://www.gop.com/the-official-guide-to-the-2016-republican-nomin...
Here are the rules for 2016
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