Posted on 02/29/2016 11:01:34 AM PST by kathsua
Those Republicans who don’t want Donald Trump need a better alternative candidate than either member of the Cuban junior varsity.
Neither Senator Ted Cruz nor Senator Marco Rubio can win in November.
(Excerpt) Read more at my.telegraph.co.uk ...
...and lo, their cries and lamentations were answered!
Being a little ironic re: the GOP mindset, this ticket would help their down-ticket RINOs- which is the most important goal to them.
They’d much rather have a moderate/liberal coalition than Trump’s conservative/moderate one.
I’m contemplating not even voting tomorrow.
I thought, when this trump thing started, it was a PR stunt. Now, it looks like he could be the nominee. What to do if, as it appears, he is the GOP standard bearer? I can see only two options given that a felon(as yet unindicted but a felon none the less) will be running for the dumocrats: Trump or abstain realizing that an abstention is the same as voting for Herself. All I can say is good luck Yanks. You are going to need it.
So now, the GOPe needs advice from England???? LOL...
I’ve voted in every election since 1976, but if Trump is the nominee, I’ll likely sit this one out.
Very few high-caliber people want to put themselves forward as presidential candidates because the media will immediately try to destroy them. They’re not Hillary.
One thing is for damned sure, the next 4 years and 8 months is going to be very eventful and unpredictable.
It’s too late. Trump has the momentum, the poll numbers, and in 36 hours will have over a third of the delegates he needs to outright win the nomination.
I’m a Cruz supporter and will still vote for him in my Primary, but Trump has this thing sewn up.
He has 82 delegates as of right now. Tomorrow he will likely get another 350 (low end) to 425 (high end). He’s just dominating. He needs 1,237 to win outright, even without rule 40(b) making it impossible for anyone else to even be nominated.
If he ends up with 500 tomorrow, he just has to focus on the winner take all states of:
California (172)
Florida (99)
Pennsylvania (71)
Illinois (69)
New Jersey (51)
Indiana (46)
Wisconsin (42)
Maryland (38)
If he wins those, that takes him to 1,088, just 149 delegates short.
And then you need to look at some of the big proportional states that he is doing well in:
New York (95)
Michigan (59)
North Carolina (55)
Virginia (49)
Louisiana (46)
Washington (44)
If he is 149 short, then he only needs to win 42% just from those States. And that assumes that he doesn’t get a single delegate from the other 18 State contests.
Tomorrow will tell us if Trump clinches before or on April 19th, the day of New York’s primary.
And God help the rest of the World.
I will vote for the nominee, but my impetus will probably be to vote against Hillary instead of for the Republican nominee. Nothing is worse than a Hillary presidency.
After that last mudfight of a debate, the only person I could vote for tomorrow (and not feel like I’d need a shower afterward) would be Ben Carson. And he’s got no chance. So I may just skip it.
It is true that we need an alternative. Instead we get lists of reasons not to vote for Trump. The politicians, pundits, experts, writers, and others who are telling us how bad Trump is have lost credibility so they aren’t even in position to give us an alternative.
If they hadn’t pushed McCain, Romney, Boehner, Ryan, McConnell and hadn’t kept the house and senate “leaders” from doing things the voters wanted, then people may listen to them now. But there’s nothing they can say or do at this point. There is no alternative but more of the same.
If Trump done even one of the conservative things he’s selling that will be one more thing than the Republicans have delivered the last 7 years - and last year we gave them both the house and senate. Maybe Trump will be more of the same. Or just maybe we’ll get a wall. I’ll vote Trump and hope for the best.
The GOPe can cross over and try to get John Edwards....ROFL
Viable alternative? How about Mike Lee?
My feeling exactly!
And so YOU should...but I bet you don’t. Sort of like all those who are moving to Canada.
Like wise
BBC like the commie contra pope is trying to meddle in our presidential selection. They are meddling and hoping, and that bs will not work.
Political science professor forecasts Trump as general election winner
The Statesman | February 23, 2016 | Christopher Cameron
A professor of political science at Stony Brook University has forecasted that Donald Trump has a minimum 97 percent chance of winning the general election as the Republican nominee.
Professor Helmut Norpoth’s forecast presentation took place Monday evening in the SUNY Global Center in Manhattan, which was organized by the Stony Brook Alumni Association.
Norpoth created a statistical model of presidential elections that uses a candidate’s performance in their party’s primary and patterns in the electoral cycle as predictors of the presidential vote in the general election.
Donald Trump has a 97 percent chance of defeating Hillary Clinton and a 99 percent chance of defeating Bernie Sanders in the general election, according to Norpoth’s formula.
The bottom line is that the primary model, using also the cyclical movement, makes it almost certain that Donald Trump will be the next president, Norpoth said, if he’s a nominee of the [Republican] party.
Norpoth’s primary model works for every presidential election since 1912, with the notable exception of the 1960 election. These results give the model an accuracy of 96.1 percent.
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