| I have to admit, I thought Mark Brewer was going to have a tough job today. Whereas the FL delegation came in united in their belief that the primary should be used to select delegates (though they disagreed on the strength at which it would be seated). MI proposed something that--as one RBC member just called it--might seem willy nilly, completely arbitrary. Mark just got asked whether he's relying on the rule that requires that the delegation be based on a "fair reflection" of the voters partiicpating in the presidential selection. He said no. He said there is no primary or caucus to measure the fair reflection of the voters. Brewer--in all his glory as a numbers geek--did a very good job of presenting the 69-59 compromise seem very logical and fact-based. He still has a hard challenge in front of him--the RBC members are obviously uncomfortable with the idea of awarding delegates without a vote on which to base them. But to his credit, he very quickly got to the point where RBC members are discussing how to figure out how to measure the voters. |
