NPR: Even After Texas Primary, Romney Will Remain The 'Presumptive' Nominee

[sailingaway]

At the moment the polls close in Texas Tuesday evening, most media outlets and very likely even the Mitt Romney campaign will declare that he has secured enough delegates to win the Republican nomination for president.

For what it's worth, there are two problems with that statement. First, as a practical matter, Romney actually won the Republican nomination when the other candidates competing for delegates in the primaries and caucuses stopped doing so. That was weeks ago.

And second, as a technical matter, Romney will not have the "bound" delegates he would need to win the GOP nomination, regardless of how well he does Tuesday night.


According to the count by the website thegreenpapers.com, Romney goes into Texas with 907 bound delegates — those who are required by rules to vote for him through at least the first ballot.

Texas awards its 152 available delegates proportionally to the popular vote. So even if Romney were to win 75 percent of the vote, that would provide him 114 more delegates — giving him a total of 1,021. That would mean he couldn't get to 1,144 until June 5, when California, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota all hold primaries.

more at link:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpoli...ry-romney-will-remain-the-presumptive-nominee

As someone whose election isn't until June 5, who is still working to convince people to vote for Ron and that voting, at all, is worth it, it makes a difference to people I speak to that it is still mathematically possible to stop Romney. Obviously, most of the media is reporting that it no longer is mathematically possible.

 

[Aratus]

^this^ california or utah...

 

[J_White]

well, i would be happy to see Dr.Paul get more votes in the remaining states, but now the focus is on consolidating our delegates and then hoping we have a good number of delegates, stealth or otherwise, to make a splash at Tampa.
chances of swaying a large number of voters suddenly is very low, unless some major scandal comes out on Romney.
but yes, there should be some motivation for our people to come out and vote on June 5.

 

[sailingaway]

well, i would be happy to see Dr.Paul get more votes in the remaining states, but now the focus is on consolidating our delegates and then hoping we have a good number of delegates, stealth or otherwise, to make a splash at Tampa.
chances of swaying a large number of voters suddenly is very low, unless some major scandal comes out on Romney.
but yes, there should be some motivation for our people to come out and vote on June 5.

We don't need to give away delegates we should have, obviously. In CA, but even more to the point (although he can earn delegates by congressional district in CA), in SD where Ron was polling in FIRST PLACE, and where he can also win proportional delegates, our voters need to get out the vote.

 

[alucard13mmfmj]

damn straight in SD.