[justlittleoleme]

Does it have any coorlation to the traffic on freerepublic and the negativity from both sides. I have seen Cruz supporters basically say that they are leaving for awhile until things calm down on fr. Think it would be valuable if traffic stats could be tracked along side these polls. but doubt that is possible.

[kingu]

I think to detect that would have taken starting the caucus much earlier than it did. I find some of the numbers fascinating. More people voted in the first caucus than voted in the following two, and even on the forth run, Cruz has not exceeded the number of votes he got on the first one. Trump also did not exceed the number of votes in the 2nd and 3rd run, though today did dwarf his first numbers.

I'd be even more interested to see what the results would be if it were a secret ballot.

[Windflier]

I have seen Cruz supporters basically say that they are leaving for awhile until things calm down on fr.

That's true of Freepers who support Trump, as well. In fact, because Trump is leading so dominantly in this race, the Trump supporters have little to battle with anyone about. Their guy is smoking this thing.

Cruz supporters, on the other hand, are facing a near certain wipe out in the next several weeks. I can understand how they'd be uptight and ready to fight with their perceived opponents.

Thing is we're not enemies. At the end of the day, we all want the same thing. It's why we're Freepers. I'll just be glad when it's down to one candidate, so the infighting can stop, and we can get back to focusing all our energies on the correct targets.

[RKBA Democrat]

A lot of paid disruptors here of late in my view. And I would argue that most are for neither Cruz nor Trump. Probably gop-e or rat operatives (is there a difference?)

The first question to ask in politics: who benefits? Neither Trump nor Cruz really benefit from the disruptors.

[samtheman]

I have seen Cruz supporters basically say that they are leaving for awhile until things calm down on fr.

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I have sworn off commenting on Trump v Cruz threads mainly because of the barrage of anti-Trump misinformation out there in the media is being doubly and triply posted here in FR and it is just too wearying to try to keep up.

I would like to note that as the number of anti-Trump postings increase to an incredibly high number, the votes for Trump here in this caucus also increase.

Lets call it the National Review Effect. The more the self-proclaimed intellectuals heap garbage on Trump, the more people vote for Trump.

Take that, self-proclaimed intellectuals.