CNN on Panama John's Delegates

[Join The Paul Side]

1. According to their website they claim Juan McCain has 1047 total delegates, 977 of them are pledged. Should he get 214 more pledged delegates to have a total of 1191 pledged, would that give him the automatic bid for the nomination?

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/

2. Are these totals correct or just their biased guesstimate?

3. I keep seeing things online and on this board about a rump convention. Can somebody explain to me exactly what that is and how it occurs? From what I've read if Panama John gets the nomination at the convention and a good number of delegates refuse him, they will form a rump convention and nominate their own Republican nominee. If this is correct, will their be two Republicans running on the general election ticket in Novenber?


Thanks. :cool:

[slamhead]

Until all the state conventions are held no reporting will be correct. Trust the research you have seen here over any MSM reports.

[limequat]

thegreenpapers.com is keeping an accurate count.

[acptulsa]

A rump convention is held when a party obviously and egregiously violates it's own rules, as in Louisiana this year. Yes, it can result in two "official" candidates.

[torchbearer]

Louisiana will lose 90% of its delegates after RNC review of the rules broken by the state gop in their election fraud.

[torchbearer]

minus 41 from mccain's total (even though only 32 said they'd vote for mccain.)

[acptulsa]

Louisiana will lose 90% of its delegates after RNC review of the rules broken by the state gop in their election fraud.

That is a good thing, and we applaud you for your effort.

Still, it would have been nice to get them for Dr. Paul and put the state in the win column...

Damned neocons!