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This whole scenario is being totally misrepresented by the media...especially Fox News. Florida was penalized once by giving up 49 or 99 of their delegates. The rules say a state can only be penalize once. However, if anyone contests, the delegates being winner take all before the appropriate date, they can. It is up to the RNC whether they change it. Wasn't South Carolina winner take all before the date also?
However, if anyone contests, the delegates being winner take all before the appropriate date, they can. It is up to the RNC whether they change it.
Exactly. The party made this situation possible, and rest assured if Gingrich had won Florida everyone would be scrambling tout de suite to make sure it changed back to proportional delegation.
Exactly. The party made this situation possible, and rest assured if Gingrich had won Florida everyone would be scrambling tout de suite to make sure it changed back to proportional delegation.
I don't see Mitt Romney throwing a fit over the fact that Newtered got himself a winner-take-all in South Carolina. How strange ... Mitt hasn't even suggested that he should get some of those delegates!
The state gets to run their own show. Everyone knew the rules going into Florida. Ron Paul and Rick Santorum would have campaigned hard in Florida if it has been a proportional delegate state. The fact that they didn't bother means that you'd be screwing them over if you changed the rules after the fact for Newtered.
I don't see Mitt Romney throwing a fit over the fact that Newtered got himself a winner-take-all in South Carolina. How strange ... Mitt hasn't even suggested that he should get some of those delegates!
SC isn't completely winner take all. Romney won two delegates because he carried a single congressional district.
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Originally Posted by godofthunder9010
The state gets to run their own show. Everyone knew the rules going into Florida. Ron Paul and Rick Santorum would have campaigned hard in Florida if it has been a proportional delegate state. The fact that they didn't bother means that you'd be screwing them over if you changed the rules after the fact for Newtered.
What I'm saying is the RNC left the option open through some rule wrangling to make FL a proportional delegation state, and if Gingrich had won, the party establishment most certainly would have taken advantage of that open situation to ensure he didn't run away with the nomination.
SC isn't completely winner take all. Romney won two delegates because he carried a single congressional district.
Two delegates does not accurately represent the percentage of the vote he got in SC. Not even close. So yes, using Newt's logic, he still has every right to complain.
Comes down to Gingrich being a whiny little brat who will throw a tantrum when he doesn't get his way. Mitt lost, took it as a lesson learned and moved on.
So did Ron Paul. So did Rick Santorum. Everyone but Newtered is acting like a grown up here.
Newt crying foul about the rules yet again, after playing the game and losing. If FL GOP changes their rules to give Newt any delegates, expect Santorum and Paul to pile on. If it was going to be a proportional allocation, Paul for sure would have campaigned in the state. It's unfair to change the rules later in the game.
The large reason they are trying to appeal is because it states in Florida rules that the delegates must be given proportional, Florida wasn't even suppose to hold its primary this early. The Republican committee should have been more strict with penalties on the state. This is not the first election year Florida breaks the rules.
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