RNC Cutting 5 States Delegate Counts
The RNC sent letters to 5 states informing them that they would be losing 50% of their delegates in the party’s Minneapolis convention next year. The action is caused by this years leapfrogging by the states in efforts to move ahead of other states in the primary calendar. The purpose of that is, of course, to play more of a part in the selection of the party candidates. The states are New Hampshire, Florida, South Carolina, Michigan, and Wyoming.
Is it me or has the Republican party been shooting themselves in the foot a lot lately? I’m not blaming them for this debacle, that solely rests on the States, but it’s been one bit of bad publicity after another for these guys. Frankly, I think the party culture needs to go so that some people will think on their own and vote the way they actually feel rather than the way the party says to.
Of course, the RNC makes the rules and the states broke them. They should be punished. They are being punished. But it reads like the RNC is the bad guy here. And maybe they are. Maybe they shouldn’t be playing a role in when the states hold their primaries.
They really shouldn’t have anything to do with the states primaries. However, because of the deep infection of the political process that the parties represent, the states find themselves at the mercy of the parties. If they hold primaries before February 5th, they lose 50% of their delegates. Defeats the purpose of holding early primaries, doesn’t it?
Also note at the end where the DNC has cut all of Florida’s delegates because Florida moved their primary forward. The full removal of delegates seems to have gotten under the skin of a few voter rights activists in Congress as they are suing the DNC. They claim that the removal of the state’s delegates is tantamount to removing their right to vote. Of course, that’s not true as they will still count in the November election when it counts. They just don’t get a vote in the primaries.