| Marks said:
Cool thanks for the explanation, wow that is complicated, but it's cool that there is voting for who is the party candidate. Up here the party just decides who their candidate will be and then we can vote. So it's a good system then since it gives guys like Paul a chance to win, instead of the party just choosing Romney because he's the "most electable" or whatever. |
Thing is, nothing is set in stone. None of this stuff is law, it's all just party rules. Because the party is broken up into smaller, state parties, they can all do what they want. That's what makes it so complicated.
If you're an activist who has an idea about how the system should work, and enough people agree with you, you can get into the party, raise the motion at a meeting, have enough people agree with you, and, bam, that becomes a party rule. If you think about how often this must happen, and how differently it happens in each state, it's easy to see why the aggregate of it all becomes so "complicated" to the casual observer.
Obviously, once you started looking into it, things don't look so complicated, and it's all rather fascinating.
