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 »

Republican Party Rules Changes

By: Morton C. Blackwell (Diary)  |  August 23rd at 08:15 PM  | 

At every meeting of the Republican National Committee (RNC), there’s a meeting of the RNC’s Standing Committee on Rules, on which I serve for Virginia. I proposed that a Party Unity Pledge with teeth in it be added to the national Rules of the Republican Party.  On August 5 the RNC Rules Committee approved this important change with only one negative vote. After almost certain | Read More »