WV wants to be a player on Feb. 5

Posted: Thursday, June 07, 2007 2:42 PM by Mark Murray
Filed Under: Republicans, 2008

From NBC's Mark Murray
In the latest effort by a state to increase its significance in the presidential nominating process, West Virginia Republicans held a conference call with reporters earlier today to discuss their brand-new presidential convention, which will be held on Tsunami Tuesday, February 5, 2008. The hook is that the results of the winner-take-all convention will be known by 4:00 pm ET that day at the latest -- meaning it will be the first of the 20-odd Tsunami Tuesday states to report its results. “It will be something that will be interesting to people in West Virginia,” said Robert Fish, CEO of the state’s presidential convention.

West Virginia Republicans still plan to keep their May 13 primary, which will decide the district delegates to the 2008 Republican National Convention. But the February 5 state convention will determine the at-large delegates. And that process begins with online voting that begins on January 1, making it -- possibly -- the first state to begin voting in the presidential nominating contest. People who don’t wish to vote online can attend a meeting in their county, and a combination of those votes will determine the number of delegates sent to the February 5 convention.

The GOP presidential candidate who receives a majority of support from the delegates at the state convention will capture all of the state’s at-large delegates.

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Best thing that could ever happen - one national primary day for the whole country. Let the conventions be what they really are, a big old party to celebrate the nominee, not to name the nominee. Might even cut the cost of running for national office. Come to think of I am supprised the media are allowing this to happen, think of all the lost commercial air time, the ad agencies must be going nuts at the prospect!

Melba, Tennessee (Sent Thursday, June 07, 2007 4:33 PM)

Ohhh, interesting point, Melba. What are the pundits going to talk about after the Tsunami results are in? Well, that's easy... it will just be the daily tracking poll to see how the likely nominees compare. We'll have a nine-month general election.

Paul Miller, Woodbridge, VA (Sent Thursday, June 07, 2007 8:06 PM)

Only a man born in germany, lived and loved in Colorado and crashed a plane he built himself could write a song about West Virgina. I'll give the devil his due. Robert Byrd is a racist and a moron, but that man knows how to give a speech. When he speaks and Sean Hannitty puts country roads in the background, I can listen to him for hours speak of the beauty and the love of his home state. Too bad Al Gore can't say the same for Tennessee, but of course, he lost that one to Bush in 2000. At least they knew what Allah Al was all about.

jerry/corpus christi texas (Sent Friday, June 08, 2007 1:00 AM)

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