Rev Dark Wrote:I am just waiting to see how they fit them all back into that cute little car.As long as the car is not built in Detroit of course. Can they even unbent after all the origami shapes these folks had contorted themselves into? Or do they even care?
Edit: The fix is in...the Michigan GOP establishment decided to give both at large votes to Romney. Making it 16-14. Here is their reasoning:
Quote:Matt Frendewey, director of communications, Michigan Republican Party:
"It is unfortunate if I did not explain this more clearly. When the
RNC indicated it would penalize our total delegates and award us only 30
delegates, the credentials committee met on Feb. 4 and interpreted the
penalty by voting unanimously to send Michigan’s full delegation. Within
congressional districts, designate two out of the three delegates as
the RNC recognized delegates and two out of the 14 at-large as RNC
recognized delegates.
"The at-large delegates are still awarded proportionally to
candidates that achieve the 15 percent threshold, the two RNC recognized
delegates are assigned to the candidate that wins the most votes.
Michigan’s results, without the RNC penalty, 28-Romney/28-Santorum. If
the RNC upholds its penalty, 16-Romney, 14-Santorum."
But here is what the Michigan GOP chair said on Feb 8:
Quote:"We start off with, after the penalty, 30 voting delegates. Okay? Eachhttp://firstread.msnbc.ms...-michigan-delegate-drama
district-congressional district - you can win individually. So you have
14 districts you can win two delegates. That takes you to 28. Okay? The
two at-large that remain, provided the individual candidate won at
least 15 percent of the statewide vote - okay so with four candidates
that's likely to happen. Then they get awarded proportionally, those delegates, and then rounded to the nearest decimal point so there won't be any half delegates or quarter delegates."
At least it's all electronic now, no more "hanging chads". You can steal an election, but you have to more blatant about it.
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