What would be the effect of voting Kerry for Pres and Kucinich delegates?
bigtree
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Tue Mar-02-04 06:27 PM
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What would be the effect of voting Kerry for Pres and Kucinich delegates? |
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Won't those Kucinich delegates switch to the nominee at the convention?
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Tue Mar-02-04 06:37 PM
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1. Good question. I have another. |
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My state has "binding" primary, whatever that means. Supposedly delegates are not allowed to vote for someone else. I vote for president, then I vote for 8 delegates who are committed to a candidate. There's something about a 15% minimum threshold to pick up delegates. Its all very confusing...
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Tue Mar-02-04 06:42 PM
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2. There are a bunch of questions like those |
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I thought of dozens of reasons against it, but I found myself thinking of exit poll margins and the like.
I was thinking at first what would be the effect of having Kucinich delegates who would support the nominee anyway at the convention.
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Tue Mar-02-04 06:50 PM
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3. The "bound" delegates have to vote for their candidate on the FIRST |
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ballot.`Candidates must get at least 15 % IN A CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT to get any votes from THAT Congressional District. So conceivably you could have a candidate who didn't get over 15% in the state, who did get over 15% in a Congressional District and would get some delegates.Now if people vote for Dean and Clark and they don't get 15%, then their votes are re-averaged in to see if any others went over the 15%. Then the delegates are split by percentage.
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