Minor Party Primaries Results and Discussion

[izixs]

Isn't it too late by now?

Admittedly I am not too versed in the delegate selection for the Libertarian Convention.

I think this mystery is kind of by design. Lets those who run the party decide their party's nominee without having to worry about things like run of the mill voters getting in the way.

In other words, I find it hilarious when advocates of 3rd parties complain about party insiders having undue influence in primaries of major parties and yet can't explain things like this very thing when I ask them about their third party of choice. How are these delegates chosen? Just a big ol' shrug. Some might be with a party that actually has a contest to determine these things in their state, but then I just gotta mention one of the states that has delegates popping out of the aether and they get angry.

But all the same, I appreciate threads like this. Makes it easy to keep track of the nonsense.

[izixs]

In other words, I find it hilarious when advocates of 3rd parties complain about party insiders having undue influence in primaries of major parties and yet can't explain things like this very thing when I ask them about their third party of choice. How are these delegates chosen?

Apples and oranges. The Green and Libertarian parties never promised their supporters and members that their presidential tickets would be totally decided by some kind of open/public primaries, where whoever "wins" the most popular votes is nominated. Your Democratic Party political machine, on the other hand, did repeatedly make those promises to its voter base. In reality, the DNC decides who is nominated -- they simply rig the process in favor of whoever they want as the presidential candidate (e.g. Hillary or Biden). The Green/Libertarian party way of doing things is, in fact, far more honest.

Yeah, sure, 'rig' as in determine the nominee via the general will of the party's voters which translates into proportional delegates to the national convention, thus being highly reflective of the majority interests of the party by the end of the process. Totally dishonest because... uh... reasons!