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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Iron Clad are Republican Rules for their Convention's First Ballot?
I hear the rules vary by state greatly after the first ballot. Are there any states that allow defections on the first ballot?
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How Iron Clad are Republican Rules for their Convention's First Ballot? (Original Post)
Junkdrawer
Aug 2012
OP
So, if the leadership really wanted Candidate B, but didn't want to subject him....
Junkdrawer
Aug 2012
#3
Bonhomme Richard
(8,992 posts)1. What rules have ever been iron clad to repugs?
If they think there is an advantage breaking rules then the end justifies the means.
madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)2. +1
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)4. +10
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)3. So, if the leadership really wanted Candidate B, but didn't want to subject him....
to the full two year vetting process, push Candidate A, allow Obama to destroy him (clumsy fish in a barrel with pratfalls) then swap out for Candidate B during a dramatic convention.
Candidate B then runs a High Road campaign against "That desperate dirty campaigner Obama."