Here is a selection of tweets from delegates and people responding to the debate.
Campaign finance experts estimate that to be competitive in 2000, Presidential candidates will need to raise a minimum of $22 million -- or $50,000 a day -- before the selection of delegates begins in early 2000.
The gatherings tomorrow don't actually have an impact on the selection of delegates to the Republican National Convention.
A spokesman for the Missouri Republican Party said that all counties had the option to use Mr. Santorum's victory in the primary as a starting point in their selection of delegates if they chose.
A spokesman for the Missouri Republican Party said Thursday evening that all counties have the option to use Mr. Santorum's victory in the primary as a starting point in their selection of delegates if they choose.
After intense debate, the Commission voted, thirteen to seven, to impose a quota system on the selection of delegates, so that blacks, women, and young people would be picked "in reasonable relationship to the group's presence in the population of the states".
Supporters of democratisation in Labor's left faction have gained two positive votes for rule changes that would give rank-and-file members a say in Senate preselections and in the selection of delegates for future party conferences.
The Republican vote was merely a straw poll and will have little impact on the selection of delegates to the convention, who will be chosen at county conventions, Congressional district conventions and state conventions.
Until the 1970s, few nationwide rules governed the selection of delegates to the Republican National Convention.
The rules for selection of delegates are complicated — and largely decided state by state.
Scope: Contains session minutes which document the acceptance and dismissal of members, selection of delegates to the Presbytery, selection of elders and trustees, and matters of church discipline.
