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Subscribe to RSSNewt Gingrich will challenge Florida's winner-take-all allocation system, spokesman R.C. Hammond said.
The campaign is asking Florida to award delegates proportionally based on the primary results. The campaign is sending a letter to the Florida Republican Party and are supposed to post it on Newt.org tonight.
Asked if Gingrich campaign would be doing this if Gingrich had won Florida, Hammond said, "Probably not."
On Tuesday, First Read explained the rules controversy. A Republican National Committee contest committee would have to take up a challenge filed by a Florida resident in August at the convention and determine whether to keep the rules as is or change them.
For context, if Florida were proportional, Gingrich would get 16 delegates, given the state has 50 delegates to allocate and he won 32% of the vote. Romney would wind up with 23, Santorum seven to eight, and Ron Paul between three and four. It would, however, lessen Romney's lead from 50 delegates in the state to seven.
The Republican Party Chairman of Florida responded by saying, "It is a shame when the loser of a contest agrees to the rules before, then cries foul after losing."
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Why can't ANY of the GNOP play by the rules?
SHEESH!
On election night one of the Republican TV commentators said that because Florida violated two of the GOP “Primary Election” rules that not only would they only be allocated half the delegates (already known and accepted) but it would end up splitting them proportionally like most other primary States.
I believe Newt will win and get his share of delegates.
The Florida primary violated rule 15b(1) - holding the contest before March 6 - and 15b(2) - holding the contest as winner-take-all. However, the rules committee has already declared that this constitutes only one violation because it is all rule 15b. One violation caused them to lose 50% of their delegates. All the candidates were aware of this before the primary.
However, you are probably correct that at the convention in August the rules committee will change its mind and award Mr. Gingrich some of the delegates. Of course, a lot depends on where the candidates stand at that time.
For a complete explanation of this convoluted process see the First Read link in the story above.
Can you say sore loser.
I know. Newt is sounding more and more like liberal, ends-justify-the-means Dems everyday! The next thing you know, his legal team will be filing briefs to challenge the voting procedure or demanding multiple recounts. We can't disenfranchise all of those Newtonians who meant to vote Newt but mistakenly voted Mitt!
Gingrich is a real whiner. He also doesn't file paperwork correctly to get on ballots and then whines about it. Is this conduct befitting a president?
We seem to have a consensus. Newt is a big baby and a sore loser.
On a serious note however, if the powers that be should decide that his claim has merit, what would this do to Paul and Santorum? Both of these candidates elected to forego their campaigns in Florida because of the "winner take all" stipulation. Also, it seems to me that the difference between a "winner take all" distribution of delegates as opposed to proportional would have to have affected the behavior of the voters. Would you have stayed home and not voted if you were a Paul or Santorum supporter, or would you have voted for the lesser of two evils between the front-runners?
Nice can of worms you've opened Newt.
SI
It's a shame that the Florida Republican Party cannot play by the rules and decide to move their primary ahead in the calender diminishing the importance of their voters influence. As part of breaking that rule the state was penalized by reducing the delegates from 99 to 50. Additionally, in 2012 the RNC decided to have proportionately allocated delegates in the early primaries and causes. If Florida decides they want to move their primary forward to when all the other states are having proportionately allocated delegates then expect the same to happen. Funny how those words can be turned back on the chairman for the mess that they created.
Newt, you lost!....Get over it!
Here we go again...(Bush v. Gore)...Newt lost, Romney won. Just accept it and move on.
At least there was a razor-thin margin between Gore's votes and Bush's. That means that either of them could have one (thanks for the mystery, Supreme Court!). But Newt definitely lost Florida: I don't recall 47% to 25% close. But I have to sympathetic to Newt (even though the man is as good for the presidency as salt is to an open wound), as the reason he lost so badly was because of Romney's negative blitz. Had Romney kept the negativity to a minimum, he still would have won but probably by a slimmer margin; let's say, 4-8%. Then his campaign would have been hurt more directly, given Newt a bump. Because he was negative, Romney may have cemented his nomination, but at the expense of independents in the crucial state of Florida.
But Newt, stop being a sore loser. We all know how cranky you can get when you don't get your way. And could you please stay in the race?? The dissension in the GOP ranks that you're causing is really beneficial to Obama and the Democrats and to America as a whole.
OBAMA BIDEN 2012
NEWT 46 STATES LEFT
DEMOCRATS 2012
Asked if Gingrich campaign would be doing this if Gingrich had won Florida, Hammond said, "Probably not."
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WTF!?! Other potential questions:
"Newt, if during the landing ont the Moon American Astronauts had found left-leaning, aliens who signaled that if a future State was ever to made on the Moon they would vote Democrat across-the-board, would you still want to colonize the Moon today?"
"Probably not"
Looks like a brokered convention coming................Good think Willard "Mitt" Romney has all that money stashed away in Swiss and Bahamian banks.
I'm sorry, have you met Newton?
That was my thought, exactly. The man didn't resign as Speaker of the House in shame because of his stellar integrity.
The Republican Party Chairman of Florida responded by saying, "It is a shame when the loser of a contest agrees to the rules before, then cries foul after losing."
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Foul or not, if Newt's challenge is an acceptable one, where does the real issue originate, with Newt whose using the system to try and win or the dumb arses who made the system to be used?
"None of the above" requested a majority of the delegates, claiming that he would have won if he'd been on the primary ballot....
When asked for a personal comment on the Florida challenge, Gingrich said, "We must have our precious!!!"
GOP need to ship Newt off to the moon with a one way ticket. There, he establish moon-americans from there.
Newt almost forgot that the third wives have the REAL jewelry and the FAKE orgasms......
Come on Willard, give Newt a few.
What a baby! Newt doesn't like the result so he wants to change the rules. How desparate can he get?
Imagine if he were POTUS, his petulance could be a real problem.
I can hear Newt now--"send lawyers, guns and money..."
the cry baby does he need his diaper changed ,his pacifier then put to bed ?
Infants have a valid excuse for being whiny demanding poop dispensers. Newt doesn't.
I've got more wives than the average dude, I've got a "Newt" attitude!!
Newt is running for whiner and Chief.
Very interesting nothing much was said of this while he was riding high expecting a victory in Florida...........he whined about not making Va......now more whining........starting to sound like a Democrat
What a scumbag Newt is. His campaign is so incompetent, now he wants to change the rules for Floridians
so that his weak efforts can be accommodated. No grace, no sportsmanship, It shows what type of Presidency might come from his camp. Rule bending law-breakers. Just like he bent the rules of marriage to suit his tastes.
He didn't even qualify to be on the ballot for some states. Newt for incompetence!
Newter Gingrich. Alls he does and cries and whines like a little puppy. I think it's pathetic.
A brokerd convention= Jeb Bush for President.
Impossible that the only intelligent son of bushie1
Would now have to face the people bushie2/chinny fu--ed so hard.
He is the best Republican around this time and he does not have a chance.
Why is ANYONE voting for this immature crooked geezer ... Newt GET LOST, even the Donald FIRED YOU. As for jeb Bush ... NEVER ... no more Bushes ever! Id vote for Sarah (no brain) Palin before a Bush
The rolls of the unemployed fell by 1.5 million... 250,000 people got jobs, 1,250,000 people stopped looking for work... you're doing a heck of a job Barack.
2008 = Obama campaign theme: "Hope and Change"
2012 = Obama campaign theme: "Fear and Envy"