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Brokered Conventions, Yet Again…

I’m an Independent. I can vote for whomever I want.

In order for me to vote for…. ok, wait..

I can’t actually see myself voting for any of the current Republican candidates, so let me not even type that. 😀

Let’s assume that what I told y’all about 2 1/2 months ago, back in December 2011 (which the pundits, late as usual, are talking about on every single television show now) happens, which is a “Brokered Convention” => http://billcammack.com/2011/12/11/brokered-conventions/

At this point, they’re also being called “Open Conventions” and “Contested Conventions”, but the song remains the same. If none of the Republicans secure the required 50% of delegates (1,144 out of 2,286) to clinch the nomination, none of them can claim to be the legitimate nominee at the Republican National Convention, which means that any of them, or, more importantly, NONE OF THEM might be nominated, and some totally different dude might be selected to run against Obama, such as Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie, Jed Bush, Paul Ryan, or Haley Barbour.

In my opinion, this so-called “Contested Convention” will be highly likely if Romney loses in his home state of Michigan, which we’ll know after tomorrow, Tuesday, February 28, 2012.

Romney’s main problem is his inauthenticity. His other problem is his religion, even though none of the pundits want to talk about it.. They just keep saying “He’s going to have problems winning in the South, and any state where 40% of the voters classify themselves as Evangelical Christians” and don’t bother to discuss it any more than that. Romney himself doesn’t want to discuss it, as he keeps saying “My Faith” and refuses to utter the word Mormon, so we’ll see how that works out for him.

Anyway.. The point is that so far, Romney has only been able to pull ~30% of the vote in any given situation. This means that if Gingrich drops out (which he won’t, because he’s still trying to get Romney back for dragging his name through the mud with attack ads that are still being watched on YouTube every day), that leaves the other ~70% for Santorum and Paul, and with Paul only pulling around 20%, that leaves a consistent 50% for Santorum to potentially snarf, which will be important once the contests change over from proportionally assigning delegates to winner-takes-all, after April 1, 2012:

conservapedia.com/Presidential_Election_2012

It is virtually impossible for a candidate to win a majority of delegates before June 2012.

About 1,144 delegates[2] are needed to win the nomination. Primaries held before April 1, 2012, will award delegates based on the proportionality of the votes (except Florida claimed to award winner-take-all, at half the delegate count, for its primary on Jan. 31). Beginning on April 1, the traditional winner-take-all system may be used by states, but the second biggest state, Texas (155 delegates), will be proportional, and the biggest state, California (172 delegates), will be winner-take-all by each of its 53 congressional districts.[3] Only seven primaries totalling a small number of delegates are winner-take-all; New York will only be winner take all if one candidate wins more than 50% of the vote.[4]

Today is February 27, 2012.. If this source is correct, this tomfoolery will continue until June, which is FOUR. MONTHS. FROM. NOW! 😀 haha By that time, all of their names will be mud before the Democrats even begin to tell their side of the story.

So I got sidetracked. 😀 Let me start again…

WHAT. IS. YOUR. #*$&#^#$. JOBS PLAN???

I’m an Independent. I can vote for whomever I want.

Assuming a Brokered Convention, in which case, there would be a Republican running that I might actually vote for… In order for me to vote for that person, it would require that a) they could prove to me that President Obama’s plan is *BAD*, and b) they could convince me that their jobs plan is *BETTER*.

It’s really that simple.

As you can tell if you’ve been following my blog, I’ve been writing about this Republican nomination process since September 08, 2011, which is more than 5 months, or approximately 150 days, and I have no idea whatsoever how anything that the current Republican candidates are saying translates into Americans receiving job opportunities, either in the near or the foreseeable future. Continue reading “What Is Your Jobs Plan? [Part 01]”