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Bernie Sanders Crushes Hillary Clinton in Alaska, Washington and Hawaii

jmotivator said:
The RNC rules for delegate voting is very different from state to state. There is no single rule that governs the behavior of delegates. For instance, Florida delegates are bound to vote for the state winner for three ballots, after which they can vote as they like. Five states bind their delegates to the will of the candidate that earned them (NH, AL, KS, MS, WI).

A vast majority of delegates belong to states that only lock their vote for the first ballot, though, so in general the primary is wide open to horse trading if the first ballot fails to yield a majority for one candidate. I don't think the RNC can change these state rules.
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Can GOP 'superdelegates' stop Trump? | Washington Examiner


Secondly, convention rules obligate those RNC members to vote according to the result of primary elections held in their states.

"Karl is dead wrong, which is demonstrated if you read the delegate packet that was issued," said Virginia Republican National Committeeman Morton Blackwell. That packet, Blackwell told the Examiner, "points to a section of the rules to which people have not paid attention. It says that all of the delegates shall be bound by the results of the primary."

the states handle how they do their own delegates but the RNC sets the rules for super delegates.
 
jmotivator said:
No, super delegates were never meant to be a reflection of the Democrat voters, they are meant to reflect the will of the DNC party elites. It's a stop gap to keep the voting public from electing someone the DNC elites don't like.

While it seems to make sense given the RNC issues with Trump right now, it also means that with the DNC systems the RNC would be propping up an anemic Jeb right now.
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Ya, that was my point early. They don't want the "children" to make a decision.
 
ludin said:
DNC rules state the super delegates can vote for whoever they want. they do not have to follow who the state votes for.
that is why trump has a better advantage than cruz does.

trump is winning states and due to the rule changes in 2016 super delegates must vote for the winner of their state.
so trump is getting a huge bump from all the wins.
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RNC only has about 7% super delegates, and they don't really compare to the freedom that the DNC supers have.
 
Hillary is about to get her ass handed to her for the fourth state in a row, and she's about to be interviewed by the FBI.

That's the front runner?
 
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