My views on the controversy at the 2012 Republican National Convention regarding the Rules of the Republican Party

By: Morton C. Blackwell (Diary)  |  September 4th at 11:24 AM  | 

I have posted below three letters to my fellow Republican National Convention Delegates.   These letters express my views on the controversy at the 2012 Republican National Convention regarding the Rules of the Republican Party ________________________________________________ September 3, 2012   Dear Fellow Delegate, Now that the national convention is over, many delegates and others have asked me to sum up my views on the controversy at | Read More »

Don’t Count Delegates Before They Are Hatched

By: Morton C. Blackwell (Diary)  |  March 19th at 05:39 PM  | 

News media, political pundits, and the candidates themselves make unwarranted assumptions as they report the number of delegate votes won to date by candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.  They don’t know or they choose to ignore one of the Rules of the Republican Party which govern the nomination process this year. That is Rule 15 (b)(2). In a contested convention, which means that | Read More »