Delegates who abstain will be replaced with alternates?

[Number19]

I've never been a delegate to national, but delegates are only "bound" to the vote for the presidential nominee. They are not bound for any other vote. Are the officers who start the convention permanent, or temporary? Do you elect a convention chair as one of the first orders of business?

 

[GeorgiaAvenger]

I've never been a delegate to national, but delegates are only "bound" to the vote for the presidential nominee. They are not bound for any other vote. Are the officers who start the convention permanent, or temporary? Do you elect a convention chair as one of the first orders of business?

Are you running for Congress still?

 

[Agorism]

I heard that in 2008 though delegates who abstained were replaced. Can anyone confirm?

Well anyone considering doing it...don't do it until the very last second. Otherwise the party can make plans to get one of the alternates there to replace you.

This would require weeks of notice for that person.

 

[Number19]

Are you running for Congress still?

Oh yes. We're coming down to the final weeks of the campaign. My campaign has gone as I had planned it out and I'm satisfied with my effort. I know some things I could have done differently, but I'm OK with the way things have gone. I've got three "front runner", very well funded, opponents - two lawyers and an incumbent state legislator. I can't - and don't want to - hide the fact that I'm a libertarian Republican and the race will come down to how much inroad the liberty movement has made among the traditional social conservatives of SE Texas. This is not Ron Paul's District 14, which ran south along the coast toward Corpus. Redistricting ran the district east along the coast over to Beaumont. There's a different demographic and all of my primary opponents reside right in the heart of this new district. The voters will have a clearly differentiated choice. We'll see how it goes.

 

[SpiritOf1776_J4]

With delegates originally bound to candidates that have dropped out and now can not have a candidate to vote for, there is no telling what will happen.

A lot of discussion has been on what if a delegate bound to Romney changes their mind becuase of their conscience. They don't want to vote for the first horseman of the apocalypse riding on their white horse, and still feel there is hope for men.

But there are also orphan delegates. Quite a few now.

 

[Number19]

With delegates originally bound to candidates that have dropped out and now can not have a candidate to vote for, there is no telling what will happen.

A lot of discussion has been on what if a delegate bound to Romney changes their mind becuase of their conscience. They don't want to vote for the first horseman of the apocalypse riding on their white horse, and still feel there is hope for men.

But there are also orphan delegates. Quite a few now.

Santorum and Gingrich have not "dropped out", to my knowledge; they have "suspended" their campaigns. Their delegates are still bound. This is critical because it denies any delegates moving over into the Romney camp.