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Oklahoma Republican delegate allocation methodology

In the wake of the Michigan Republican presidential primary, in which Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney won an equal number of congressional districts, each worth two delegates, there was a dispute over whether the two at-large delegates should be divided between Romney and Santorum (since no candidate received a majority...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 4, 2012 9:16 PM

Newt's Florida challenge and the GOP's sloppy rules

Newt Gingrich is challenging the plurality-takes-all allocation of Florida's 50 delegates to the Republican National Convention. Mitt Romney finished first in the January 31st primary with 46% of the vote, which means, according to rules adopted by the Florida state party rules, Romney gets all 50. Republicans in Florida and...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 3, 2012 8:32 AM

Republican cumulative delegates by date

Florida turned out as expected, but as I wrote right after South Carolina, there's no need for anyone of the remaining candidates to head for the exits. Mitt Romney's campaign is restarting the inevitability bandwagon. Pundits are falling over each other to be the first to declare that it's all...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 1, 2012 12:58 AM