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Originally Posted by Q-Unit
could be worse (like being killed just to vote) but could be a lot better (like relying on 200 million votes for our president instead of "electoral" representatives, a system sorely outdated since the Civil War for Christ's Sake).
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OK I got one better than that
For some odd reason the Republican Party here in WV (which Im a member of but dont agree with what they did) Decided that our election date of 1st Tues in May would not have an impact on how we voted. So in turn the they decided to have a Republican Convention on Super Tuesday. About 1200 people showed up to vote. Now how these people where picked is beyond me. So anyway heres what happened:
The WV Republican Primary is a complicated thing as is really composed of three lesser parts. However, the largest part, the part that awards 18 delegates (of the 30 total) is the States Republican convention on Super Tuesday. The vote is done and, as I predicted last friday, Mike Huckabee won the 18 delegates in WV with 567 delegate votes - just outstripping Mitt Romney who garnered 521 votes. John McCain was in a pitiful last place with just 12 votes.
The West Virginia convention took two rounds of voting to reach this conclusion. In the first round Romney had actually won but no candidate garnered 50% of the votes so they declared a re-vote. In the re-vote the lowest vote getting candidate, Ron Paul in this instance, was excluded from the second round.
There are 12 left, with 9 not determined until May 13th's actual primary vote. But I doubt those 12 will really have much bearing on the rest of the primary season.
Now what they forget to tell you is that the McCain people decided that Romney was evil and turned there votes to Huckabee. McCain's goal after seeing he would not win the 18 votes was to make sure Romney did not win. Oh it was a big mess here for a couple days. Sad thing is their was not a darn thing anybody could do to stop it.
I still say like the old Brewster's Million Movie. Vote none of the above.
Nothing is never going to get fixed right if we dont vote to fix Washington First.