2008 WA. Caucus Charade for McCain
posted by February 12 at 10:05 AM
onGolday at HorsesAss has a post up explaining why the GOP “caucus” was even more of a chimera than you think.
His main point:
Unlike the Democratic caucus there is no counting and reporting of presidential preference, and no allocation of delegates proportionate to the stated preference of the attendees.
Goldy was up late figuring this all out. It’s worth a read.
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Did their signature sheets have the LGBT box?
No, you had to wear a pink star if you were LGBT at the GOP ...
Gee, between her endorsement of O and Esser engaging in willful voting irregularities, Gregiore may have sewn up her re-election over the weekend.
Would seem awfulty hard for Dino to play the martyr card given how Huck & Paul supporters are likely to feel abt Uncle Luke.
*LOL* It's commenters like Poe that keep me reading the Slog...
I actually have an acquaintance who caucused for LaRouche v.2.0 - oops, I mean Ron Paul. She'd never been to a Republican caucus before. Paul got about 1/3 of the votes at their precinct caucus, and two of them were elected as Ron Paul delegates. Then the precinct committee officer came around, said, "no, we're not going to have any Ron Paul delegates, we're going to unite behind the party's choice" and told them both they weren't delegates any longer. He gave their two slots to McCain delegates. They were both outraged, and sure that somehow isn't legal, but if you actually read the rules of the WSRP, that's really the way their caucuses are run. "No, you peons voted all wrong. We're going to ignore what you voted for and put our own people in." So the caucuses are utterly meaningless, just a form of political masturbation.
If that'd happened at a Democratic caucus, not only would we all still be there, arguing about it, but half of one of the other delegations would have switched in protest. But Republicans are more acquiescent to authority...
@5 - no, there would have been a fist fight. Dems are serious about this stuff.
You mean Goldy was up late figuring out what Republicans knew all along, what Eric Earling and Pudge at Sound Politics had written one and two days prior that the GOP caucus was to elect delegates to the County and Legislative District conventions??? And that who "won" and who "lost" last Saturday's primary won't be decided until April? Bravo Stranger for your heterogeneous choice of blog reading and being up to date on what's happening in the world.
No Don, I was up late explicating what Pudge, Eric and I have been saying for days... with the difference being that neither Eric nor Pudge will admit that Esser deliberately misled both the public and the press.
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