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Would've meant a lot in '08.The '08 platform was put together by McLame delegates and other GOP insider establishment lackeys.
With proportional awarding of delegates, Dr. Paul will have a lot of clout this time around.
and it will mean just as much as the '08, '04, '00, '96 etc platforms
enjoy your mental masturbation
to quote mr natural "it don't mean shit."
Daily Kos contends that had the new rule been adopted before the 2008 Republican primary, there may have been a three-way race between McCain, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee, and a so-called brokered convention when a political candidate has not secured enough delegates to officially win a primary, prompting a process in which there are a series of votes and delegates are able to switch to a different candidate, eventually leading to a majority of delegates for one candidate. Daily Kos asserts:
In 2008, the Republican primary contest was decided quickly and relatively painlessly only because there were winner-take-all rules at the time. Those rules have been changed. If you take the current proportional delegate rules and apply them to the results of the 2008 race through Feb 5th, when the race was still heavily contested, something very surprising happens. John McCain, who took a commanding lead under the winner-take-all rules in effect in most states, instead ends up behind Mitt Romney by eight delegates (with a confidence factor of plus or minus 5 delegates). The standings, with more than half the delegates decided, would have been as follows.
Romney 439
McCain 431
Huckabee 247
Other 114
After the GOP Primaries ... a Brokered Convention?
i was speaking of the platform
no republican was going to win in 08, imo, no matter what happened