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This five-state rule is Rule No. 40 of the rules of the Republican Party as adopted by the 2008 Republican National Convention and amended by the Republican National Committee on August 6, 2010. [14] It is the rule outlining the way the convention will nominate the Republican candidate for president.
Super Tuesday 2012 is the name for March 6, 2012, the day on which the largest simultaneous number of state presidential primary elections was held in the United States. It included Republican primaries in seven states and caucuses in three states, totaling 419 delegates (18.2% of the total).
[35] [36] He remained on the Republican primary ballot in a number of states and received 4,364 votes during the Republican primary season. As the Libertarian nominee, Johnson received 1,274,136 votes (which was 1% of the votes cast) on the November general election ballot .
Republican candidates for state Senate and state House, small-town Republican committees, and county sheriffs and district attorneys were all "recipients of [Romney's] largesse." [23] Romney was criticized by some as "buying" endorsements, who referenced "blatantly transactional terms that lie behind the announcements."
Former State Auditor Beth Wood’s resignation late last year allowed Gov. Roy Cooper to appoint a successor who could go into this year’s election as an incumbent.. Auditor Jessica Holmes, a ...
For the first time in modern Republican primary history, three different candidates won the three key early contests: Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucuses (though Romney was originally believed to have won before a recount), Mitt Romney in the New Hampshire primary, and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich in the ...
Republicans want to oust U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel for the 22nd congressional race, so they brought a tight pool for candidates to get that goal achieved. The GOP candidates are fighting in the Aug ...
Two of the Rutherford County elections only have Republicans competing, so the GOP winners will capture both seat and avoid facing Aug. 1 competition.