With Texas win, Romney secures delegates to win nomination
 

With Texas win, Romney secures delegates to win nomination

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Mitt Romney walks to an awaiting car after walking off of his campaign plane at McCarran International Airport on May 29, 2012 in Las Vegas.


By msnbc.com staff
NBC News projected Mitt Romney to be the victor of Republican primary in Texas; a win that puts him over the 1144 delegate-threshold needed to win his party's presidential nomination. He won’t earn the official nod until August's Republican National Convention in Tampa.
The race for the Republican nomination has been largely over since the April 3 primary in Wisconsin. Romney's win in that contest prompted the eventual withdrawals of his remaining rivals: Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul. It also hastened the onset of President Barack Obama's own re-election offensive versus Romney.
While conservatives appear to have rallied behind the former Massachusetts governor, the long campaign season was not without its consequences for Romney.
The Republican has been fundraising aggressively, for instance, to make up for money spent during the nomination battle, which depleted, in part, his relative financial parity versus Obama.
But more significantly, the Obama campaign has been turning some of the most stinging attacks on Romney from other Republicans and revived them for use in the general election. Case-in-point: the Obama campaign has spent much of the past two weeks attacking Romney's experience at Bain Capital, the private equity firm Romney had co-founded. That is a line of attack first advanced by Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry in January.
Romney's continued advantage versus Obama, though, lies with an economic recovery that still rests on precarious footing. May's NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that half of Americans judged last month's jobs report as unsatisfactory. That dampened optimism for a recovery -- and, in turn, for Obama -- could become a potent political weapon for Romney, especially if continued economic unrest in Europe slows the pace of the recovery in the U.S.

Reality Check...

WOW. They are trying to make the Delagates sign an affidavit that says they will vote for ROmney on the first round, or be charged with perjury.

Do people really think you can solve or fix anything using the system's 'System'?

The TX convention is next week, let's see how well that goes since mitty supposedly has it all sewn up, lol. If he really has it locked up do they even need to fight for the delegates? Keep an eye on this, it will be telling, very telling!

As far as the affidavit is concerned it's BS, have they ever heard of duress? If it were me I'd sign it and then did what I wanted, F them!

Can they even do more than threaten with this?

No. Perjury is lying under oath. Breach of contract maybe? If there were a contract.

I believe the rules say they are allowed to not vote at all on the first round if they want to. So i would say no, it is only a threat. Luckily most RP supporters actually read the rules and know how to play this delegate game.

Signing an affidavit is a de facto oath, if you intentionally lie in an affidavit, you have committed perjury.

Also, I believe there are state laws (statutes) which stipulate that delegates must vote for who they are "supposed to" vote for or be prosecuted at the state level, although I'm not sure if "abstaining" from the vote is similarly prohibited.

I'm sure most of the Paul delegates went through abstinence training.