

{"id":15127,"date":"2016-05-10T23:56:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T03:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15127"},"modified":"2016-05-10T23:56:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T03:56:53","slug":"trumping-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15127","title":{"rendered":"Trumping West Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia has a very convoluted voting process.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s pretend you live in Logan County WV<\/p>\n<p>Here is your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.wv.gov\/elections\/current\/sample\/Documents\/Logan\/REP.pdf\">sample ballot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The three RNC members are bound for the statewide winner (Trump)<\/p>\n<p>Each of the 3 congressional districts get 3 delegates.<\/p>\n<p>The remainder are in a statewide free for all, where nobody knows who they are voting for.  Delegate candidates had to indicate the candidate they support.  Every voter in the state gets to vote for all delegates.  Each voter chooses 22 delegates.  Because Trump has more than 22 candidates, he could end up losing delegates because Trump supporters wouldn&#8217;t all vote for the same 22 people.<\/p>\n<p>The top vote getters become the delegates, but no more than 2 from each county, except the #1 vote getter is excluded from that restriction.<\/p>\n<p>The WV Republican Party has declared that delegate candidates who aligned with candidates that have withdrawn are released from their obligation.<\/p>\n<p>Reform of the primary process should be at the top of the Trump agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia has a very convoluted voting process. Let&#8217;s pretend you live in Logan County WV Here is your sample ballot The three RNC members are bound for the statewide winner (Trump) Each of the 3 congressional districts get 3 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15127\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15129,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15127\/revisions\/15129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}