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2016 Postmortem

brooklynite

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14. Point 1. Ford lost

Reply to andym (Original post)

Fri Jun 3, 2016, 09:03 PM

Jun 2016

Point 2. The uncommitted delegates were truly uncommitted. They were not delegates who had announced their support for Reagan and needed to be won back.

Point 3. The negotiations to get those uncommitted delegates were the sort of sleazy politics the Sanders people hate:
http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/whistlestop/2015/05/ford_reagan_and_the_1976_rnc_on_this_week_s_whistlestop_podcast.html

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Modern historical precedent to take campaign to the convention. [View all] andym Jun 2016 OP

We ain't the GOP. eom MohRokTah Jun 2016 #1

No, we have the wholly undemocratic super delegates. morningfog Jun 2016 #3

Back then the GOP had superdelegates, the Democratic Party didn't andym Jun 2016 #7

no back then, as now, PA didn't require its GOP delegates to pledge to support a candidate dsc Jun 2016 #9

Ford was a sitting President and head of the Republican Party. Sanders is the losing candidate who Trust Buster Jun 2016 #2

In that election Reagan attacked Ford as being establishment. andym Jun 2016 #4

It's tenuous because Ford was the head of the Republican Party and the delegates stayed with Trust Buster Jun 2016 #8

The delegates almost didn't stay with Ford andym Jun 2016 #12

Hillary leads Sanders by far more delegates. You're hoping against hope. Trust Buster Jun 2016 #13

Wrong party... beachbum bob Jun 2016 #5

The GOP no longer runs their Primaries like that, now the Democratic Party does andym Jun 2016 #6

A contested primary Skink Jun 2016 #10

The correct precedent is Jerry Brown in 1992 geek tragedy Jun 2016 #11

Point 1. Ford lost brooklynite Jun 2016 #14

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