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Get Ready To Vote For Kasich

Mike

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RNC Rules Member: Nominee Doesn’t Need To Win 8 Primaries
April 20, 2016 | Kerry Picket

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The Republican National Committee’s eight state convention threshold rule could be interpreted differently than anyone expects this summer in Cleveland.

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz  97% argue that Ohio Gov. John Kasich could never become the nominee, because Kasich cannot win eight primary contests to be eligible.

However, RNC Standing Rules Committee member Randy Evans told The Daily Caller at the Spring RNC Meeting Wednesday that a nominee does not need to “win” eight state primary contests to qualify to be put into contention — only the support of eight delegations at the convention.

“You do not have to win them. Because the rules says you have to demonstrate support of the majority of eight states as opposed to you have to win eight states,” Evans said. “So theoretically you could have a state — and the precedent is that’s what it was designed to do, which is to permit a state you didn’t win to nonetheless support putting your name in nomination.”

Known as Rule 40b, the eight state threshold came about at the GOP Tampa Convention in 2012, when the Romney campaign pushed it as a way to deny then-Rep. Ron Paul any chance of getting the nomination. The previous threshold was five states.
 

Steve

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Ron Paul won bound-pluralities of the official delegations from the states of Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, and Oregon (but not the Virgin Islands—despite winning the popular vote there). During the credentials committee meetings the week prior to the official opening of the convention, the Ron Paul members of the delegations from Louisiana, Maine, and Oregon were disputed (as well as the Ron Paul delegates from Massachusetts), and many of the Ron Paul delegates from those states were unseated. At the same time, Ron Paul delegates from Oklahoma disputed the credentials of the official Oklahoma delegation, but they did not succeed. In the end, Ron Paul had bound-pluralities from Iowa, Minnesota, and Nevada; however, he additionally had nomination-from-the-floor-pluralities in the states of Oregon and Alaska, plus the territory of the Virgin Islands. Under the 2012 rules, this total of 6 from-the-floor pluralities was sufficient to earn a fifteen-minute speech on national television; the rules were changed at the last minute to require 8 from-the-floor pluralities, and thus Ron Paul did not speak at the convention.
Paul's state-by-state delegates tallies were not verbally acknowledged by the RNC.

at this point I still support Cruz as the best choice... I am not sure if i could come around to actually support Trump...

but I know that I will NOT support kasich... not sure what his "game is" but I have never been for spoilers sense perot threw the election.
 

cowman52

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The only difference between Kasick an Hillary is the John they use, and come to think about it, he probably would don a pant suit, p pore blond wig, a high pitched cackle, and they use the same facilities and not a soul would notice or give a darn.
 

iwannabeacowboy

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Nothing different about Trump either. Matter of fact, he'd support grown sexually deviant men walking in with your daughters and granddaughters.

Sounds logical... if you want a culture of rape and to not defend the defenseless.

But don't worry, he's about to start sounding presidential.
 

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