Talk:2012 United States presidential election in Michigan

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It is an 'open' primary, right?[edit]

Who can vote in the Republican primary? Just Republicans, or is it open to Independents? And do the Green Papers explain it? Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 02:11, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Since Michigan does not register voters by party preference, there is no mechanism to ensure that only Republicans will participate", says the table footnote in Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_2012 so I'll add "open primary" to the Article here. Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 02:17, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Michigan now considers its presidential primaries "closed", because "voters...must state [in writing] the party primary they wish to participate in before being issued a ballot. The ballot given to voters only shows the party that corresponds to their choice." See [1] cmadler (talk) 03:37, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

HOW MANY DISTRICTS MICHIGAN HAS?[edit]

MICHIGAN HAD 15 DICTRICTS BUT AFTER 2010 CENSUS IT HAS 14.81.47.192.163 (talk) 03:36, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! So with 14 districts, do they get two delegates for each plus two to equal their 30? Just asking, Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 22:58, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently so, if you follow the Green Papers URL-link given as a ref in the Article. Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 23:02, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Did Ron Paul get delegates?[edit]

This article appears to say he did, but I thought the Michigan delegates are bound...--Metallurgist (talk) 01:15, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This was the delegate election. Depending on who you ask, 6-8 elected delegates are Ron Paul supporters. "In the districts where Santorum won, those delegates head to the convention "uncommitted" since Santorum dropped out. In districts where Romney won, winners must sign a pledge they'll vote for Romney on the first round to honor the Feb. 28 results." I've also seen suggestions that although "bound" delegates can't vote for a different candidate on the first ballot, they might be able to abstain (this seems to be unclear or disputed). Remember that beyond the nomination itself, there's also the matter of the platform, and I'd guess that Paul's supporters hope to push that in a libertarian direction. cmadler (talk) 13:57, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This has been discussed on another talk page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_2012), and the end result is basically that Romney has 24 delegates & Paul has 6 delegates from MI. As for abstaining on any first round of voting at the 2012 GOP convention, this has also been discussed on the above talk page, and, if any delegates try to abstain when they are bound to vote for a particular candidate, those delegates will be replaced with alternates. Guy1890 (talk) 21:22, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Title is misleading[edit]

This page is about the presidential primary. The senate and congressional primaries haven't even happened yet. Scott Illini (talk) 06:17, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Article name[edit]

Please see discussion at Talk:United States presidential election, 2012#Article name, to change ", 2012" to "of 2012". Apteva (talk) 22:08, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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