New Jersey's Gift To Rudy Giuliani

I've written about this before, and now it's official: the New Jersey Republican Party has voted to change its delegate allocation rules from proportional representation to winner-take-all. That means, in essence, that no one but Rudy Giuliani will receive New Jersey's 52 convention delegates on Feb. 5. Florida, on Jan. 29, is the precurser for Giuliani's "Feb 5" strategy. And delegate allocation there is by congressional district, so Giuliani and the other candidates can pick and choose where they want to campaign. By the way: California, which closed its primary to independents, is winner-take-all by congressional district.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/06/new-jerseys-gift-to-rudy-giuliani/49799/