Comments about ‘Michigan GOP changes delegate award after vote’

Let's see...didn't Santorum just get VOTED onto the Indiana ballot by the Indiana election committee even though he didn't have the required number of signatures? He did. Also, didn't the officials in Iowa swing to Santorum AFTER the official word was that it was "too close to call" and there was no clear winner even after the recount? Why yes...

Funny

I guess he likes being the recipient, but when he's on the other side it becomes full on election fraud.

Clearly, Romney was already robbed of delegates in Michigan's losing half their delegates because of holding their voting earlier than March 6...he would have had at least 30 instead of 15 or 16...not his fault...and clearly, the apportionment of votes had nothing to do with the voters decisions, the final tally, but Santorum's turncoat seeking of Democrats to block Romney clearly shows who the Democrats fear the most in a general election, and its not Santorum. Vote for Mitt, he's twice as good as the faux-conservative other guy.

For a while there I wasn't thinking Santorum was all that bad. I was never a full supporter of his, but I thought this guy is not that bad and we could do a lot worse with Newt. Now that Santorum has had a little success he thinks he is the almighty. Listen Ricky, you went below the belt encouraging Democrats to vote for you. Let's try to keep the gloves up. In case you have forgotten, this is a GOP Primary, that means Republican. You are a Republican fighting for the Presidential nomination of the REPUBLICAN PARTY, not the Dems. Now politics is politics and everyone gets involved in a little dirty boxing. But seriously Ricky, robo calling the dems for support. Completely un-American in my opinion. Win this on your own merit not who you are trying to push out of the white house. And if you don't think you can do that, then get out of the race. We already have a president who tries to be "Hollywood". We do not need another one who is in it to get his face on every magazine and TV show. Grow up! This is what I hate about politics, why don't all you clowns be truthful for once and try to win for the American people and not yourselves.

If Santorum had "won" in Michigan he would be singing a different tune instead of belly aching. It won't matter anyway - Romney now has the momentum to carry him through to the end.

Is this going to really matter?

So they can't figure out who wins Iowa, Nevada is run like a trainwreck but at least for them it wasn't close, and Maine can't organize which precincts count or not... now they can't even award delegates correctly in Michigan. Goodness, this party can't even run its own elections... are you all sure you want them to run the nation?

Romney should say he had nothing to do with this matter, and follow it up with "I'm so tired of all the whining coming from Santorum, I'll let him have the extra delegate if it stops his whining."

@Tom in CA
Momentum? If anything should be learned from this primary season it's that momentum means nothing. 11 different candidates have led or tied for the lead in at least 1 national poll (Bachmann Cain Christie Gingrich Giuliani Huckabee Perry Romney Palin Santorum Trump). Santorum won Iowa, then Mitt won, then Newt, then Mitt again, then Santorum wiped the floor with Romney, then Romney won these two. Santorum leads in polling in washington and is liked to win more than half of super tuesday states (they just favor him that's all) so he's likely to get another bounce (and would get a huge one if winning Georgia alone is enough to push Gingrich out). The only thing certain is that Romney has the money supply to continue and even that's got some doubt. His expenditures last month have brought his "in the bank" total down significantly and he's tapped out a lot of contributors (i.e. he's disproportionately getting donations from "max donations" so he can't solicit them for more money later like the others can since they're getting more small donations).

This article by Hoffman of AP is bogus.

I distinctly remember reading about delegate proportions before the primary and the overall winner gets both state wide delegates.

Is AP creating news or reporting news?

Why do our presidential hopefuls wear jeans while everyone else is dressed up?

atl134 - you looked at the national polling lately?? Who has the momentum? And, by the way, after all the others have come and gone - who is still the frontrunner?

CNN announced before the election was final that the winner of the popular vote would get both the extra delegates.

Is there going to continue to be scandal after scandal this whole election season? It started with Iowa. I still wonder when Maine will be finalized. Its rather embarrassing for the whole party.

@atl34

Yup the Dems don't have any problems either. They've never offered cigarettes or free rides to homeless people to get them to vote. You can be real proud.

Interesting on what money can buy. We live ina very sad society and, oh by the way this will come back to bite Romney.

The way we choose presidents in this country is ludicrous.

and Americans think elections in Venezuela are third world.....

@Tom in CA
Romney has the momentum, and momentum has a value of about 1-2 weeks in this campaign. Santorum is likely to win Washington, then follow it up with a solid super tuesday showing. Then he'll have momentum...even more if Gingrich drops out. If you look at the rest of the february states it heavily favors santorum. Then in march more northeastern states vote which helps Romney (with the exception of PA). I guess what I'm saying is... don't think this is over because it's not even close.

@atl134

"Goodness, this party can't even run its own elections... are you all sure you want them to run the nation?"

Are you serious? We had Nancy Pelosi tell the nation that we had to pass the Obama Healthcare bill so that we could actually see what was in it. How do you reconcile a statement like that from a top leader in the Democratic party? Doesn't that send up ANY red flags in your mind?

Changing the rules of the game after the fact is a sign of desperation.