Voting Guide for State's GOP Presidential Primary
New and unaffiliated voters can still join the Republican party and cast a vote for their presidential hopeful of choice. Others are out of luck.
The ongoing presidential primaries come to Connecticut on April 24. The Republican candidates will be vying for 28 delegates, with 1,144 needed to outright win the party's presidential nomination. Although the voting is open to Republicans only there’s still time for some people to join the party and vote in the primary.
New, Unaffiliated Voters
The deadline for voters currently in another party (particularly Democrats) to switch was Jan. 24. However, unaffiliated voters and new voters are eligible to join the Republicans by April 19. New voters include those that never registered to vote before and people who previously registered but moved to a new municipality and have not registered there already.
According to the Office of the Secretary of State, “For new voters, mail-in applications must be postmarked, or received by the Registrar of Voters or voter registration agency, by this [April 19]. For unaffiliated voters, the mail-in application must be received (not merely postmarked) by the Registrar of Voters by this deadline.”
How to Register
Before you vote (unless you're already a Republican) you’ll have to register with the Registrar of Voters in Town Hall. Photo ID with proof of address is required- such as a license - and there’s a short form to fill out. You must be at least 18 years old.
Election Information
The shape of the race is evolving with every primary or caucus, but as of now five Republicans in the race are Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. Also running is the oft-ignored Buddy Roemer, who has not been included in the presidential debates due to low polling numbers.
In 2008, John McCain, who went on to win the nomination, dominated with 52 percent of the 151,604 votes cast. Mitt Romney finished second with 33 percent. Mike Huckabee had 7 percent and Ron Paul attracted 4 percent of voters. Back then Connecticut was a “winner take all state,” with McCain nabbing every delegate. In an attempt to encourage the candidates to campaign in the Nutmeg State, the Connecticut Republicans recently changed the rules to award proportional delegates for the runner-up candidates..
On April 24, Rhode Island (19 delegates), New York (95 delegates), Pennsylvania and Delaware (17 delegates) will also be having their primaries.
Maria Nilson
5:48 am on Sunday, February 19, 2012
Absolutely!
Daryl
7:48 am on Sunday, February 19, 2012
Is a voter registered as "Independent" considered unaffiliated? Can this voter register as Republican by April 19th?
Gene Bartholomew
10:48 am on Sunday, February 19, 2012
When will they have a candidate that can beat Obama?
I mean really, these are our choices???? This is the best the GOP has to offer??
Lets see, should I vote for the Ivy league born-n-bred with the golden spoon in his mouth?, the Christian Extremist?,the full of it and full of himself Newt?, or the lovable yet insane Ron Paul??
After all we've been through as a nation since 2000, or even 1980 I have to wonder if this isn't all just a show, that we aren't all spinning our wheels for nothing, that the billionaires behind the scenes are picking who will win if it suits their fancy.
This almost seems as fake and scripted as Wrestling or one of those "reality" shows ( in case you didn't know, there is absolutely zero reality in reality tv shows, its all scripted)
The one candidate I thought could take Obama, Jon Huntsman was pummeled by the GOP simply because he told the truth, he didn't go to extremes or lie or have a clinic to "pray away the gay", he seemed to be the only genuine up front matter of fact person in the GOP, and they creamed him for it.
It's all very strange and disturbing.
Skeptic
8:17 pm on Sunday, February 19, 2012
Do the math. The Republicans must swing 93 electoral votes. They have already swung 14 of them thanks to the 2010 census, so 79 votes. Indiana, North Cariolina and the 2nd Congressional District in Nebraska are already gone, which is 27 more so now the Republicans need swing only 52 electoral votes. If Santorum is on the ticket, even as VP, he will swing Pennsylvania's 20 (Obama won PA by under 10% in 2008; swinging 5% of the vote makes it a red state) leaving 32 left to swing. Obama won Florida by less than 3%, Ohio by less than 5%. They will likely go Republican now that the Hopey Changey thing is a bust. Colorado, Virginia, New Hampshire and Iowa could all easily go Republican. If Mitt is on the ticket Massachusetts could also go that way (remember Scott Brown?). Obama won by 7,000,000 votes, but most of his popular vote majority was in California, New York, Illinois and Michigan.
Gene Bartholomew
8:45 pm on Sunday, February 19, 2012
you're brainwashed........what does that have to do with life on the planet Earth??
Skeptic
12:26 pm on Monday, February 20, 2012
Gene, instead of engaging in infantile name calling why don't you state why you feel my analysis is incorrect?
Gene Bartholomew
8:35 am on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
as soon as someone says "the hopey changey thing" it is apparent you don't know whats going on
Repubs have blocked eveything Obama did or tried, here in CT we gave UTC 126 million of the 169 million we were given from ARRA to invest in Clean Energy, Malloy (who is a republican) shut down Clean Energy and made it into a finance corporation that is funneling even more of our tax dollars and our utility bills to large corporations or "connected people".
Where Obama screwed up royally was in not arresting every repub including Bush Cheney and the regime, ENRON, AIG, etc etc and seizing all of their properties for crimes against the people. This would have shut them up as well and kept the BS rhetoric to a minimum. A few arrests have been made, but no one truly responsible. Like I have said Obama is a dissapointment.
I would have shut down fauxnews as well for lying, their lies are well documented and easily would hold up in court as spreading disinformation and citing people to act upon these lies, you can't allow a supposed "news show" to be a propaganda machine for large corporations, and now we have a huge problem because part of our population listens to it and Rush and think they are getting facts and then they think they know something or know all about what is going on, they are brainwashed just like the people who were brainwashed by the Nazi party leading up to Hitlers rise in power and they would elect such a nut, like Perry or Santorum.
Nick
2:01 pm on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Oh, the irony in someone calling for a media outlet to be shut down and comparing the people that work there to Hitler.
Also, don't let the fact that Obama had a House majority and a Senate supermajority for his first two years in office get in the way of your "Republicans block everything" narrative.
Skeptic
3:18 pm on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
And here I thought that Gene''s first round of name calling was infantile.
Skeptic
10:01 pm on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Actually, Gene, I would love to learn whether the public school where you learned reading comprehension was unionized by the NEA or the AFT. Re-read my first comment. It is an analysis of the difficulty Mr. Obama will have in holding the electoral college. Your infantile ranting and your it's-not-his-fault-it's-Bush's-fault links do not address my analysis.
William Brighenti
1:52 pm on Sunday, February 19, 2012
You hit the nail on the head: the rich (i.e., the billionaires) who fund the elections are picking who will win. And they select those who represent their best interests, not those of the 99%.
No wonder we have witnessed the greatest transfer of wealth over the last thirty years, with the 1% increasing their wealth four-fold while the rest of us have been losing our jobs, health insurance, and homes; and can no longer afford to pay for our children's education. Have you noticed that the middle class is disappearing?
As long as Americans keep getting sidetracked on wedge issues, issues having no relevance to their wallets and pocketbooks, the rich will continue to give us candidates that represent only their financial interests, and not ours. Both political parties represent Wall Street and Corporate America; one is more liberal on social issues but both will lower the corporate tax rates and cut medicare and social security. Obama is no FDR.
The American people have been asleep for decades, and as long as they do not organize and demand real change, you will continue to see the outsourcing of jobs overseas and the disappearance of the middle class.
I agree: Ron Paul is lovable like my nutty old uncle. But at least he is authentic and honest, unlike the rest of them, who are bought and paid for.
Skeptic
8:03 pm on Sunday, February 19, 2012
So why hasn't George Soros passed out all of his his money to the 99%?
Gene Bartholomew
8:52 am on Thursday, February 23, 2012
Thanks, I think I did hit the nail on the head trying to explain the madness of "OUR SIDE YOUR SIDE BLAH BLAH, W WAS GREAT, OBAMA DESTROYED THE ECONOMY IN 2008" the literal brainwashing of people who actually lived through 2000-2008 and witnessed our destruction first hand, yet refuse to see it because it is their party that did it, with help from the dems of course, but they only see that side of the equation, not that corporations control the show and have since 1980.
Gene Bartholomew
8:52 pm on Sunday, February 19, 2012
So, accordinging to you, Soros should turn billions over to us and then in "good faith, with the lord" other scumbag rich repubs will willingly just forkover their ill gotten gains to the IRS????????????
really??
and if they don't are you willing to swear upon a BIBLE on youtube that YOU will PAY for their SHORTCOMINGS???????????
huh?
if so give me the time and place and I will film and document such a pledge......UWPOS
Lynn Herlihy
6:57 am on Monday, February 20, 2012
I would vote for Anyone rather than our current President. If you want change you got to get into the trenches and work. Stop whining
Gene Bartholomew
9:58 am on Monday, February 20, 2012
Thats brilliant----sarcasm.
SO because it is proven that no matter who we vote for, repub or dem, the same large corporations run the show, so your answer is to vote for anyone but Obama, even if it is Christian Extremist wacko Santorum under the notion that anyone but Obama will "get in the trenches"?????????
wow thats nuts
anyone but anyone in either party would be correct thinking, it sounds like you are, like many Repubs, unable to deal with the proven fact that W, dad, and Cheney took us for a ride, in addition to either party being run by large corporations, these scumbags bring their own corporations into it, unlike Obama, specifically big oil and defense contractors, and their goal each time is to increase their business presence in the Middle East and South America and to sell weapons, under dad they sold weapons to Iran and Iraq at the same time and did business with and within Iran while it was illegal and while they told Hussein that we were his best buddy, they did these things for greed.
and you would probably want them back just to satisfy your own ego
Garri Saganenko
10:03 am on Monday, February 20, 2012
I often find it funny when people label Ron Paul "nutty" or "insane" for denouncing established institutions and proposing 'new' reformations to take their place. By 'new' I mean repealing the income tax- which did not exist before 1913-, "Ending the Fed" as Paul would say, which prints money at free will, working contrarily to American economic practices and principles, and ending foreign wars that are fueled by paranoia, the anti-American principle of interventionism, and paid for by the money printed at free will by the Federal Reserve.
The income tax proposes an idea that should be frightening to all Americans and any hard-working person who has earned a single dollar. That is, the government allows you to keep a portion of your income will it plunders the other portion in a sad attempt to redistribute wealth.
The Federal Reserve meddles with interests rates, reserve minimums, and bonds, attempting to regulate a massive economy in a very unnatural way. It's like manually adjusting your gas meter, putting it at full every time it slides down towards empty. Eventually you'll run out of gas and are left wondering 'why'. The Federal Reserve is the 'why' and the American gas meter is reaching its end.
Lastly, the foreign wars are accelerating the mileage/gallon on the American gas . As Americans, we were all left scorned from 9/11. However, we have embarked on a war against a tactic, terrorism, not a person. It's like trying to eliminate all evil in the world. ...
Gene Bartholomew
10:23 am on Monday, February 20, 2012
The problem with Paul is that he's a racist and he also like other extremists wants to shut down most of the govt including education and hand it over to private corporations, which will cost us more, while telling us it saves.
Even now these scumbags are working to shut down the USPS by forcing it to over pay into the retirement fund by billions every year making it broke.
These overpayments are being used by corrupt financial institutions.
Then the repubs that set it up are saying the USPS can't function, should be closed and it should be run by a private corporation, owned by a friend of theirs.
You people really need to wake up.
Sunshine
1:12 pm on Monday, February 20, 2012
Gene,
Paul is not a racist, show your proof. As far as Education goes, that was handled by the states before and will be handled by the states after (if there ever is an after) the Dept of Education is disbanded. Government is just plainly too big. you argue all of the time about how the little guy is getting screwed and the big guy benefits, it is big government that allows that to happen. How can anyone who pretends to be as smart as you pretend to be not see that. Remember what Ike said, beware of the military industrial complex. Add to that the educational industrial complex and a few more big businesses with that symbiotic government relationship that only really big government can support.
Gene Bartholomew
8:16 am on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
I don't pretend to be smart, I am smart, street smart, I see people with 4-6 year degrees who can't function and would vote another Bush into office or reelect Daily.
You are being BS'd, big time. You are being told that Govt has gotten too big and in order to lower costs they must shut down the things that you and I need, S/S, Medicare, Education, Pollution Regulations, FDA regulations, etc etc.
This is all at the behest of large corporations who are trying to bring down their cost of business, their cost of ensuring edible food, safe drugs, clean water, clean air, etc etc.
AH's like Santorum are going out saying Obama is this big evil anti Christian who puts the Earth above people, then he'll cite a verse in the Bible that says we are above everything on the planet and should do what we want, but the Earth is in our care.......kind of a contradiction don't you think?
You have to deal with a few known facts.
1- Our politicians from both parties are owned by the same large corporations.
2- These corporations write the laws, they wrote CFMA of 2000 and it is what destroyed our economy, it was designed to.
3- They always try to scapegoat us against eachother.
4- Most of our regulations and agencies came about because we THE PEOPLE, were ripped off, poisoned, polluted and had no recourse of action.
5- Now they want all existing regulations and agencies shut down so they can have free reign with no fear of lawsuits.
6- You need to wake up.
Gene Bartholomew
8:25 am on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
He wrote some very racist things years ago and now claims it was a ghost writer he hired to write editorials under his name, I say BS.
He is going about everything all wrong, he like other Repubs that are owned by large corporations are telling you that thy need to shut down everything we need for protection against these corporations.
What we need is a flat tax with no deductions and all loopholes and off shore BS shut down and closed, everyone pays, even the 1%. GE pays no taxes and Ct gives it millions every year, same with UTC.
That is our problem, Corporate Welfare.
Whats wrong with education are the corporations, they need to be cleaned out of it and it needs revamping and updating as to curriculum. NCLB was really just a tool for Bush family members to get the contracts to supply all schools with books and supplies, the rest was window dressing and it didn't work because the focus was on profit.
Paul is crafty, he'll say something to get a hook in you, like "I'll shut down the income tax!!!" BS, no one can or will.
What Ike warned of was of the Bush's and Cheney's of the world, they are the ones who need to be feared, Obama owns no defense corporations or giant oil co's, and lets see, hmmm, no wars on the horizon where Bush & Cheney have vested interests......isn't that odd??
Michael Hayes
1:38 am on Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Gene
You're wrong about GE. Here's a good read: http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/04/the-truth-about-ges-tax-bill/
Also, name me a company whose employees pay as much to uncle Sam as GE? I don't think you'll find one. The point? For all of the corporate bashing you do here, there's a need for corporations. If you want to keep corporations here, they need some incentives. Sometimes we benefit from those incentives, sometimes we don't. That's capitalism.
Gene Bartholomew
9:49 am on Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Michael, maybe you work for GE, I see many of these corporations sucking the life out of CT, the USA and the planet. No one who can pay their executives hundreds of millions a year each needs any kind of tax payer subsidies, especially when it results in cutting S/S and medicare and education. We give them billions every year dude, just in this state, that is not a free market capitalist system, that my friend is a Monarchy, and CFMA of 2000 pushed the Monarchy system over the edge.
In 2007 we gave GE $722,000 to install GE solar panels on the roof of their corporate headquarters in Fairfield. GE had cleared 4.5 billion that year. Yes, we paid GE to install their own solar panels on their roof. More recently we gave UTC over 120 million of 169 million of ARRA funds to June 2010, search CT Recovery Act Memo. We all know the millions we gave Pfizer and the results.
These are what I call bad investments with no ROI for the taxpayer, and the bull about "they create jobs and they employ a lot of people" is bull too. They employ very few people if you % off the total of Ct workers. It is cheaper to pay the unemployment than it is to give these corporations billions every year, its like they hold us hostage.
We need a new system that favors the people, and it is quite simple, you want to sell your products here?, then you pay full taxes here and employ people here or leave.
And THAT IS NOT CAPITALISM AS YOU DESCRIBE IT, THATS A SCAM.
Michael Hayes
10:32 am on Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Gene
As usual you try to suffocate us with your "facts". I don't work for General Electric but my father does, and has for nearly 40 years. The company has given him the opportunity to earn a good living and raise a family. He's paid taxes, as have millions of the company's employees. Without corporations like GE where would these people work and as a result pay taxes? Your solution to everything is to blame corporations and to point out why they're not perfect. Of course they're not, no business is. If GE is doing such a terrible job and "sucking the life out of CT, the USA and the planet" where do you suggest people work? For once, you answer a question...
Gene Bartholomew
10:10 am on Wednesday, February 22, 2012
UTC employs less than 1% of all workers in CT yet we gave them 126 million of a 169 million dollar ARRA package that was supposed to jump start green technology. I have the documents that prove it.
How is that a good ROI?, we got no jobs, I'd bet they still laid people off. That money should have gone to making this state energy efficient and starting green jobs.
Would CI like to give me the money I have spent on upgrading my home and making it as energy efficient as I can?? No, they give GE money to install GE owned products on their buildings so they can save energy, now thats freaking brilliant.
Malloy is on a power trip, and the economic situtation in this state is getting worse because of it. He's not doing anything different other than giving more to the corporations that Weicker, Rowland and Rell gave to, and he shut down clean energy, shut down solar pv, shut down solar thermal and he raised taxes, while giving more to the billionaires.
Here's W's Treasury Sec--- http://www.sott.net/articles/show/238425-Turns-Out-the-Government-Sachs-Conspiracy-Theorists-Were-Right-All-Along
I'm not seeing your point...........the rich need more because?????????? we might get A job here and there? Ct just gave 2 million dollars to a company that does not exist here, they have an office with 2 people, all of the research was done at an out of state university and so was the manufacturing.
Gene Bartholomew
10:20 am on Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Here's the joke of a 2 million dollar investment, these are just examples, I think a complete auditing of these agencies is in order. quotes from article:
A New Haven medical device company that moved from Virginia in 2010 has received its second $1 million investment from Connecticut Innovations in as many years.
EpiEP Inc., which makes a device that verifies the outside surface of the heart has been accessed in order to treat arrhythmia, is in clinical trials in Europe. It has successfully completed animal trials at the Mayo Clinic.
In June 2010, when the governor's office announced the company would relocate from Virginia, EpiEP projected it would hire eight people by June 2011. It now has a staff of two, up from one when it moved to New Haven.
EpiEP Chief Executive Officer Pamela Bunes said, "We are delighted by the continued support and confidence we have received from Connecticut Innovations.
( I BET SHE WAS!)
At the same time that state-funded CI invested $1 million, EpiEP received $600,000 in private venture capital. The state is borrowing $25 million this year to send more cash to CI for investments such as this one. ( THATS A GREAT IDEA!)
The technology, developed at the University of Virginia and licensed from that public university. ( WASN'T BUILT OR DESIGNED HERE!= 0 JOBS )
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-epip-connecticut-innovations-20120131,0,4600368.story?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150637344919703_22789637_10150653914604703#f2c7f8a870c1484
Gene Bartholomew
10:32 am on Wednesday, February 22, 2012
So we have to keep giving away billions every year and raise taxes to do it?, all while our infrastructure collapses and millions are out of work?, and hell while we're at it, lets cut their S/S and Medicare too.--sarcasm
Hell lets make a busway and abandon the existing railroads, after all you have to plow and maintain a busway which makes it cost more and everyone can use the train, lets make a system that only certain people can access and is a dead end road, ---sarcasm.
Non of this is capatilism my friend, Trickle Down is not Capitalism, transfering tax dollars and percentages of utility bills to large corporations is not Capitalism, its a scam to make people richer.
The US taxpayer has the right to see some kind of a ROI, I see none, we've lost jobs after giving the most to corporations in the history of the world, it was and is a losing investment especially hen you see the pay of the upper manangement. Its wrong, its immoral, and in most cases its illegal to some extent or a real stretch of the imagination.
I don't think you are going find too many people who are concerned about the welfare of billionaires, unless they are that shallow.
Gene Bartholomew
10:40 am on Wednesday, February 22, 2012
I did answer it Mike, UTC and GE do not employ that many people, Ct has 2million plus/minus workers, any company that employs even several thousand actually employs less than 1%, think outside the box, you are repeating what you have been told to SELL these giveaways, every politician including Malloy always says the same BS when cornered about it "OHHH THEY EMPLOY A LOT OF PEOPLE THEREFORE ....BLAH BAH BLAH"
Well I looked it up and they don't, small business employ closer to 90% of the people of CT and they get squat.
and just because any company employs a few thousand does not mean they have any more rights than any other company and they certainly are not entitled to 70% of our ARRA money or to be paid for installing their own solar panels on their freeeking roof so they can lower their energy bill and use them fior advertizing and then take a tax deduction on that.
Geeez Louise
Eric Auer
7:51 pm on Wednesday, February 22, 2012
I don't think Gene is that far off actually as a small business for 40 yrs I see small businesses as 1-5-10 maybe 25 persons that generate the majority of taxes , keep the local economy going such as delis, gas, stores , hardware and you get the picture a community. facts are a usefull to understand whats going on. a fact I heard on the radio GM made 7billion dollars last year 54,000 employees Yales endowment fund made 22% on 16billion to 19billion how many employees? Does yale receive gov't subsidies or grants- .do any of you guys get invited to those cocktali parties? interesting numbers I like numbers and facts and who benefits. follow the money. Eric
Gene Bartholomew
9:05 am on Thursday, February 23, 2012
Thanks Eric, it is nice to see an intelligent person jump in once in a while, wish it was more often.
It may interest you to know that there was supposed to be a Small Business expose' on NPR, exposing how Ct gives an incredibly large amount of our tax dollars to a few large corporations while leaving small businesses out in the cold, it apparently was killed.
I had a epiphany this morning.
Seeing that SCOTUS declared that all corporations have the same rights as the people of this once great nation, how about these corporations live under the same tax rules that we do?? After all they are one of us legally.
Gene Bartholomew
10:54 am on Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Hey listen everyone ........
DON'T LET FACTS GET IN THE WAY OF YOUR THINKING
Michael Hayes
10:56 am on Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Gene
I'm giving you a specific example of why corporations have been hugely beneficial to our society, despite their flaws. I'm not defending any giveaways, or tax breaks, or any of the other ideas that you're hyperventilating over. But you just want to bash away and blame Republicans.
Jay Heavens
10:57 am on Wednesday, February 22, 2012
People, don't waste your time arguing with Gene. As he humbly admitted above, he is "smart"! He gets that way by spending hours and hours and hours arguing in forums with his Internet-gleaned FACTS! Remember, folks, Gene deals with FACTS. You cannot argue with FACTS, because they are FACTS. How do we know they are FACTS? Gene says so. And because Gene lacks ANY degree of hubris, and spends more time than all of us combined arguing at people he doesn't know, and will never know, if he says his FACTS are FACTS, then who are we miserable, uneducated ignorant slobs to disagree with him? This is his life, people. And, oh, what a life it must be! We, the unwashed, should be grateful that he deems to honor us with his HUGE chunks of word-facts, bound together in seemingly endless chains of posts.
I love this cartoon - who does it remind you of? http://www.eatliver.com/i.php?n=8368
Gene Bartholomew
9:01 am on Thursday, February 23, 2012
Jay, you need to grow up.
It's not me you have a problem with, its facts, you hate them because they destroy the fantasy world you have invented for yourself, Repubs like you are no good for your party.
I have since 2003 invited every repub like you to please prove my facts as wrong.
So far no takers.
Just childish arrogance as you diplay above.
But you're right, no one can argue with facts, and thats too bad, does our country look like it s doing well???
Well sport it ain't because W was great and Obama sucks, its because they both suck ( one much worse than the other, hint: they called him dubya) because large corporations control it all.
here's some therapy for right wing extremits like yourself, just say this 3 times in the morning, afternoon and evening for one week:
W sucks and Obama sucks and large corporations are controlling the govt and both parties, therefore both parties suck
Gene Bartholomew
9:06 am on Thursday, February 23, 2012
It may interest you to know that there was supposed to be a Small Business expose' on NPR, exposing how Ct gives an incredibly large amount of our tax dollars to a few large corporations while leaving small businesses out in the cold, it apparently was killed.
I had a epiphany this morning.
Seeing that SCOTUS declared that all corporations have the same rights as the people of this once great nation, how about these corporations live under the same tax rules that we do?? After all they are one of us legally.
How do you feel about that??