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Thread: What Happens if Delegates Abstain?

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    What Happens if Delegates Abstain?

    Does it alter the number of votes a candidate needs in order to win the Nomination? Or are 1144 votes the bare minimum, regardless of how many delegates vote?



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    Dr. Paul! You're here!

    You've changed my life, sir. Thank you forever for your heroic statesmanship.

    to your question, apologies, I'm just not sure of this kind of detail, but it generates some interesting what-if scenarios.

    Anyways, great to have you on the forums! You're an inspiration for all of us.
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    Hate to break it to you bro, but The House of the Red Shield will never let you win.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ghengis86 View Post
    Hate to break it to you bro, but The House of the Red Shield will never let you win.
    Just can't let me enjoy a momentary happy fantasy can you.


    Well, there is always
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    blimp
    Why?
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

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    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Why?
    Why not?

    Ron Paul's single post.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Why not?

    Ron Paul's single post.
    OK whatever suits you, I just don't see that there is any reason to bump it up today.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment



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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    OK whatever suits you, I just don't see that there is any reason to bump it up today.
    Blame Danke...

    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    He only made one post that I'm aware of:

    http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...egates-Abstain

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Blame Danke...
    People seem to do that a lot here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    People seem to do that a lot here.
    LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    LOL
    Case in point.
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    The Federalist Papers, No. 15:

    Except as to the rule of appointment, the United States have an indefinite discretion to make requisitions for men and money; but they have no authority to raise either by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    People seem to do that a lot here.
    Maybe that's why they always make a 'Where's Danke?' thread when you are missing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr.3D View Post
    Maybe that's why they always make a 'Where's Danke?' thread when you are missing.
    And the mods even closed my safe space.
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    The Federalist Papers, No. 15:

    Except as to the rule of appointment, the United States have an indefinite discretion to make requisitions for men and money; but they have no authority to raise either by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    People seem to do that a lot here.
    Well, I didn't think it would be such a hardship...but I did tell him to blame you.

    I wouldn't blame you.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Well, I didn't think it would be such a hardship...but I did tell him to blame you.

    I wouldn't blame you.


    Another case in point.
    Pfizer Macht Frei!

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    Quiz: Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!

    Short Income Tax Video

    The Income Tax Is An Excise, And Excise Taxes Are Privilege Taxes

    The Federalist Papers, No. 15:

    Except as to the rule of appointment, the United States have an indefinite discretion to make requisitions for men and money; but they have no authority to raise either by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America.



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