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After the Fact,
Romney’s Supporters in Michigan Seemingly Rewrite the Delegate Rules
Posted by Erick Erickson
Thursday, March 1st
According to the Michigan Republican Party rules, each candidate who
wins a congressional district will win a delegate per district. Romney
and Santorum split the districts, so they each got 14 delegates. There
are two statewide delegates.
The statewide delegates are divided based on a mathematic calculation
for each candidate who gets over 15% of the vote. In Michigan, as Right
Michigan explains, Romney and Santorum each got one.
So while Romney got just shy of 2% more of the vote than Santorum in
Michigan, he and Santorum split the statewide delegates and wound up
tied 15 to 15 in Michigan.
But the Romney camp cannot have that. This is Romney’s home state.
Romney has to win.
So last night, the Michigan GOP’s Credentials Committee voted to take a
delegate away from Santorum and give it Mitt Romney.
They claim this had all been decided back on February 4, 2012, but it
is clear from the memo documenting that meeting that no one else read
the delegate count that way.
My friend Saul Anuzis who is a Romney supporter and who participated in
the vote says it was all a misunderstanding, but the memo Saul links to
is dated today, not from February 4, 2012.
This looks like Romney supporters changing a tie to a win. I suggest
the Michigan GOP issue the original memorandum because this looks more
like Romney supporters trying to steal a delegate than standard
compliance. Back on February 14th, it appears some interpreted what
would happen to be winner take all for the statewide delegates.
We should expect, however, the Santorum and possibly the Gingrich camps
to seize on this. So the Michigan GOP needs to act quick to get this
story to go away.
Read this and other articles at Redstate
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