Can Rand use the Delegate strategy in the cacus states to win or at least make some real noise at the GOP national convention?

JiffyPop Sat, 12/26/2015 - 09:49

First let me start by saying I believe that the odds are stacked against him. However, I don't think he would run unless he really believes he had a shot at pulling off winning the Republican nomination. I believe the polls are completely wrong and only used to manipulate the ignorant masses. However, the also serves a purpose to limit his fundraising and decrease his potential support. That being said the biggest problem I see with his campaign is money. I believe Rand doesn't inspire the same harden support that Ron did. However, I still believe that he is as just as liberty minded as his father. They only disagree on strategy on how to advance the cause of liberty. Now back to my original question. Can Rand use the Delegate strategy in the cacus states to win or at very least make some real noise at the GOP national convention? I am aware that the national RNC party rules have changed. My understanding is that now whenever a candidate wins a certain percentage of the popular vote in the cacus states he gets a certain percentage of delegates bound to vote for him or her at the GOP national convention. Assuming I'm correct and maybe I may not be... Could Rand still goto to the national convention with an army of delegates and then stage a big fight on the floor. Then he could use this army of liberty minded delegates to change the national rules to unbind his delegates to vote for him? I want to add that I am very aware of how Ron was illegally stripped of most of his delegates before the convention. However, I would like to see them try and pull that same type shenanigans on Rand. I think he will fight back with everything he has if they do. In my opinion this type of fight could potentially really help to wake larger numbers of people up.

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rftbunny's picture

I was going to comment, but I have to say that I'm happy to see most of the people here already have a good idea of what is going on and has happened in the past with the delegate rules and the RNC.

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That the requirments for being the nomination hinges on having a majoritry of delagets of eight states, which was increased from five, durring the last go around in order to screw over the Ron delegation.  Delagates are considered bound for the first vote, maybe the second vote, but if no-one has a majority of delagets before the convention, it's my understanding that all delagates that were bound by their state laws would be free to vote.  We can hope.

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Back in 2011-2012 I had a much better understanding of those rules and I do remember them changing the requirements to a majority to eight states now. Thanks for that. However wasn't there another and ever more terrible rule change though?

Wait a sec ..... wasn't it something like this.... win a candidate wins a state with the popular vote that candidate gets all the delegates? Basically, its a clean sweep! The delegates are no longer divided up amongst the candidates. I just remember that the new rule put in place would essentially destroy the Paul delegate strategy. At least that's how it appeared to me at the time. In fact, wasn't that when John Boehner completely ignored all the nay votes? However, I may be completely wrong and blending to completely different issues into one distorted memory.

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since both Trump and Carson threatened to run as independents. Supposedly Trump, Carson and the RNC hugged and have since made up. So who knows???

I STILL STAND WITH RAND!