So apparently my state (Colorado) decided to throw a fit and leave when the RNC wouldn't honor the signatures / roll call. Part of me wants to be pissed at the RNC for this, but then I learned what Colorado wanted to vote on.
Apparently, Colorado wants to change rules so that delegates are *not* bound to vote for who the state voted for.
Am I reading this wrong? Because to me, it seems like that would be extremely bad. Allowing delegates to vote for whoever they want just seems contrary to the point of a primary system, because then the people aren't voting, party members are voting, which is just some scary ass shit.
Or is there a nuance that I'm missing to this?
Anyway, watched the beginning of this with my Grandparents at their place. I knew they voted Red at least as recently as 2004. About 45 minutes into the speakers drilling on about Benghazi, and revealing that Melania was going to be the speaker, my Grandma swore for the first time I've ever heard her, said "Fuck this shit, fuck the Republican party." I guess they've both been extremely disenchanted by the party for about 10 years now, and my Grandpa, an avid outdoorsmen, told the NRA to get bent. Both my Grandparents are voting blue. Interesting turn of events that I didn't expect!
So apparently my state (Colorado) decided to throw a fit and leave when the RNC wouldn't honor the signatures / roll call. Part of me wants to be pissed at the RNC for this, but then I learned what Colorado wanted to vote on.
Apparently, Colorado wants to change rules so that delegates are *not* bound to vote for who the state voted for.
Am I reading this wrong? Because to me, it seems like that would be extremely bad. Allowing delegates to vote for whoever they want just seems contrary to the point of a primary system, because then the people aren't voting, party members are voting, which is just some scary ass shit.
Or is there a nuance that I'm missing to this?
Anyway, watched the beginning of this with my Grandparents at their place. I knew they voted Red at least as recently as 2004. About 45 minutes into the speakers drilling on about Benghazi, and revealing that Melania was going to be the speaker, my Grandma swore for the first time I've ever heard her, said "Fuck this shit, fuck the Republican party." I guess they've both been extremely disenchanted by the party for about 10 years now, and my Grandpa, an avid outdoorsmen, told the NRA to get bent. Both my Grandparents are voting blue. Interesting turn of events that I didn't expect!
So apparently my state (Colorado) decided to throw a fit and leave when the RNC wouldn't honor the signatures / roll call. Part of me wants to be pissed at the RNC for this, but then I learned what Colorado wanted to vote on.
Apparently, Colorado wants to change rules so that delegates are *not* bound to vote for who the state voted for.
Am I reading this wrong? Because to me, it seems like that would be extremely bad. Allowing delegates to vote for whoever they want just seems contrary to the point of a primary system, because then the people aren't voting, party members are voting, which is just some scary ass shit.
Or is there a nuance that I'm missing to this?
Anyway, watched the beginning of this with my Grandparents at their place. I knew they voted Red at least as recently as 2004. About 45 minutes into the speakers drilling on about Benghazi, and revealing that Melania was going to be the speaker, my Grandma swore for the first time I've ever heard her, said "Fuck this shit, fuck the Republican party." I guess they've both been extremely disenchanted by the party for about 10 years now, and my Grandpa, an avid outdoorsmen, told the NRA to get bent. Both my Grandparents are voting blue. Interesting turn of events that I didn't expect!
They wanted a roll call vote on the rules so we would have had to do this yesterday. And then the rules where the delegates had to reflect the votes of the primaries would have been adopted. Hooray.
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So apparently my state (Colorado) decided to throw a fit and leave when the RNC wouldn't honor the signatures / roll call. Part of me wants to be pissed at the RNC for this, but then I learned what Colorado wanted to vote on.
Apparently, Colorado wants to change rules so that delegates are *not* bound to vote for who the state voted for.
Am I reading this wrong? Because to me, it seems like that would be extremely bad. Allowing delegates to vote for whoever they want just seems contrary to the point of a primary system, because then the people aren't voting, party members are voting, which is just some scary ass shit.
Or is there a nuance that I'm missing to this?
Anyway, watched the beginning of this with my Grandparents at their place. I knew they voted Red at least as recently as 2004. About 45 minutes into the speakers drilling on about Benghazi, and revealing that Melania was going to be the speaker, my Grandma swore for the first time I've ever heard her, said "Fuck this shit, fuck the Republican party." I guess they've both been extremely disenchanted by the party for about 10 years now, and my Grandpa, an avid outdoorsmen, told the NRA to get bent. Both my Grandparents are voting blue. Interesting turn of events that I didn't expect!
The nuance is that the Republican Party is a private entity, rather than a governmental institution, even though it seems like a government institution.
So really, the party can choose to hold primary votes, caucuses, whatever, and can then choose to disregard those votes and run whoever the hell they want. They wouldn't be locking Trump out of running, they just would be deciding that he couldn't run on their name and with their funding.
Practically speaking, that would be a death sentence for both the party and Trump, but they're under no obligation other than their own rules to support the candidate that was voted for in the primaries.
In other news, a person who normally attends pub quiz (which has a single anagram question) informed me that "CON VULNERABLE NATION INTO PANIC" is an anagram of "REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION."
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Again, lining up New York to deliver the over the top votes. They aren't there yet.
I dunno, Illinois and Louisiana have Jersey beat in corruption.
No, I know they're lining up...just figured they had enough by NY roll call.
i wish i believed this was going to be the biggest fuckup tonight.
Math didn't quite work out. They have 70something for Trump.
It was already slow and bad, it just makes it slower and worse when they try to add drama.
This is a really great argument.
So, they've moved from "this wasn't plagiarism and you're a cog in the Crooked Hillary Machine if you think it is"
to
"It was totes plagiarism and isn't she great for doing it for you all?"
3DS: 1607-3034-6970
It's like every spokesperson has a different story to tell...
So apparently my state (Colorado) decided to throw a fit and leave when the RNC wouldn't honor the signatures / roll call. Part of me wants to be pissed at the RNC for this, but then I learned what Colorado wanted to vote on.
Apparently, Colorado wants to change rules so that delegates are *not* bound to vote for who the state voted for.
Am I reading this wrong? Because to me, it seems like that would be extremely bad. Allowing delegates to vote for whoever they want just seems contrary to the point of a primary system, because then the people aren't voting, party members are voting, which is just some scary ass shit.
Or is there a nuance that I'm missing to this?
Anyway, watched the beginning of this with my Grandparents at their place. I knew they voted Red at least as recently as 2004. About 45 minutes into the speakers drilling on about Benghazi, and revealing that Melania was going to be the speaker, my Grandma swore for the first time I've ever heard her, said "Fuck this shit, fuck the Republican party." I guess they've both been extremely disenchanted by the party for about 10 years now, and my Grandpa, an avid outdoorsmen, told the NRA to get bent. Both my Grandparents are voting blue. Interesting turn of events that I didn't expect!
The nuance is FUCK TRUMP as I recall.
Also - I know it is a hype machine, but to boast that every single county will go to the Republican candidate seems quite.. a high standard.
What'd they do this time?
And they live in a desert anyway.
They wanted a roll call vote on the rules so we would have had to do this yesterday. And then the rules where the delegates had to reflect the votes of the primaries would have been adopted. Hooray.
Kansas City is also in Kansas.
According to the mail I receive, anyways
Edit: Whomever is running the stream, let the cheering into the feed! You need to make this feel like a big moment!
Even Quinnipiac could only get it to 12 this morning.
The nuance is that the Republican Party is a private entity, rather than a governmental institution, even though it seems like a government institution.
So really, the party can choose to hold primary votes, caucuses, whatever, and can then choose to disregard those votes and run whoever the hell they want. They wouldn't be locking Trump out of running, they just would be deciding that he couldn't run on their name and with their funding.
Practically speaking, that would be a death sentence for both the party and Trump, but they're under no obligation other than their own rules to support the candidate that was voted for in the primaries.
So that's a real world 4 then?
You're adding in the wrong direction.
Because he's also some mucky-muck for NH delegates.
Not the one that matters.
That's pretty close, hopefully they invest significant time, resources, and money into getting that number closer
And cut off all of these states from bragging about themselves and/or blaming all their problems on Democrats?