Iowa and New Hampshire goes to Mitt Romney
Rudy Giuliani gets Florida
Thompson gets South Carolina, who will ultimately get the nomination?
2007-10-07 08:27:00 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
I heard that the GOP can nominate whomever they want, and skip over Giuliani and take the next in line, is this true?
2007-10-07 08:27:54 · update #1
Giuliani hasn't got a snowball's chance of even getting past the primaries. He's got too many ex-wives and his own KIDS won't talk to him.
Mitt Romney is a bigger panderer than Bill Clinton EVER was.
Thompson can't say anything that's not written by speech writers and his wife is a ditz.
Our next president will not be from the GOP.
2007-10-07 08:36:27 · answer #1 · answered by Resident Heretic 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The delegates at the GOP convention are free to pick any person to be the Presidential nominee.
The real question is how does any of the top candidates get the 50% of the delegates necessary to assure themselves of the nomination. Things always happen differently once the votes start coming in, but I am having trouble seeing how any of the candidates get close to that threshhold even with the Republicans using a first-past-the-post winner-take-all system in states and congressional districts.
Giuiliani will do well in the blue states, which will get him to about 1/3 of the delegates, but I am seeing McCain, Romeny, Thompson, and Huckabee getting their share of delegates as well from the red states. I just don't see how Giuliani gets delegates in the South or the rural midwest.
This group of candidates seems to have deadlock written all over them. In which case, the next Republican nominee will be Newt Gingrich (and am only half joking on that one).
2007-10-07 15:38:33 · answer #2 · answered by Tmess2 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The person that gets nominated is the person who gets the most delegate votes at the GOP Convention. Most states require their delegates to vote for the person who won their primary on the first ballot. If no one wins the nomination on the first ballot, then most states allow their delegates to vote for whomever they want, although some states require their delegates to vote for the same person on the second ballot as they did on the first. If it goes to a third round of balloting, then they usually can vote for whomever they want.
It has probably been since the 1968 conventions that we all ready didn't know who was going to win the nomination for either party before the convention even started.
2007-10-07 15:35:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
At their Presidential Conventions, each state will select a candidate for each party, either by caucus or with a primary, and that candidate then gets the full support of the delegates of that party.
2007-10-07 15:44:52 · answer #4 · answered by Me, Too 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yo' Dame et Not
DO NOT count out John McCain :)
He's 3rd in some polls, New Hampshire loves him
and Iowa? Well, they don't like the BS. It shall be
interesting!!
2007-10-07 15:41:20 · answer #5 · answered by Mele Kai 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't appear that any of the GOP candidates are electable. Too many have started too early. Most are already running out of steam.
2007-10-07 22:09:13 · answer #6 · answered by Schona 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't matter.
The GOP is effectively banished from the White House for the next 16 years at least.
You can thank George W. Bush for that.
2007-10-07 15:29:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Condi Rice!
Imagine Rice/Bush against Clinton/Boxer
(as in Laura Bush)
2007-10-07 17:03:31 · answer #8 · answered by Tigger 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I doubt that it will be split that much. Thank you for not mentioning that Ron Paul will be making a difference. He won't be getting ANY states.
2007-10-07 18:47:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone new may be in the sidelines.
2007-10-07 15:53:57 · answer #10 · answered by The Wiz 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋