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Why a Contested Convention Favors Cruz
National Review ^ | March 23, 2016 | ELIANA JOHNSON

Posted on 03/23/2016 12:01:56 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts

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To: GodGunsGuts

Vote Trump.


21 posted on 03/23/2016 12:09:24 PM PDT by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: dynoman

lol

Send donation only if Heidi Cruz sends her nude autograph picture.


22 posted on 03/23/2016 12:09:40 PM PDT by jennychase ( Vote Trump Or get Ready for President Hillary)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Cruz is done, he is just hasn’t admitted it yet.


23 posted on 03/23/2016 12:10:00 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: GodGunsGuts
“He points to Arizona as an example. Trump won the state’s primary on Tuesday evening, but regardless of what any campaign does, the majority of Arizona’s 58 delegates, who are unbound after the first ballot, are likely to defect to Cruz on subsequent votes. “Voters in the primaries are not representative of the people who are gonna’ be sittin’ in the chairs in Cleveland,” he says.

In other words, the Trump delegates are party insiders with no loyalty to the voters. They will turn on Trump and support Cruz. That is the theory.

24 posted on 03/23/2016 12:10:13 PM PDT by detective
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To: GodGunsGuts

National Review is a nest of twits.


25 posted on 03/23/2016 12:10:19 PM PDT by Lexington Green (Why isn't Hillary in jail?)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Of course it does Cruz-oids. Nothing to worry your little heads about at all. You’re gullible enough to believe what this politi-vangelist has been preaching so it shouldn’t be too hard to swallow this BS too. Open wide !


26 posted on 03/23/2016 12:11:44 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: Maelstorm
-"A contested convention favors one person and that person is Hillary Clinton."

DITTO!

27 posted on 03/23/2016 12:11:45 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: GodGunsGuts

Why the National Review Favors Morons


28 posted on 03/23/2016 12:12:04 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: Maelstorm

Exactly!


29 posted on 03/23/2016 12:12:08 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Both Cruz and Kasich ran in the same Presidential race as Trump yet he’s the only one left who can actually win.

The people rejected Cruz and Kasich by denying them the votes to win but they won’t go away because by damn if they can steal it, it will still be theirs.


30 posted on 03/23/2016 12:13:12 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: GodGunsGuts

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412724/posts

This was already posted with over 100 replies.

Didn’t you people get into trouble before with deliberately posting the same articles over and over again, trying to spam the site?


31 posted on 03/23/2016 12:13:30 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Zenjitsuman

Your post was an excellent read!


32 posted on 03/23/2016 12:14:01 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: GodGunsGuts

If the GOP Establishment steals the nomination....

They won’t steal it for Cruz, despite him being a stealth Establishmentarian globalist.


33 posted on 03/23/2016 12:14:30 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: VanDeKoik

Actually, I think they are under the impression that the side that posts the most crap articles wins.


34 posted on 03/23/2016 12:14:55 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: GodGunsGuts

I’ve got a good idea. Let’s vote for a guy whose only chance for the nomination is to participate in a RNC (GOPe) Convention and be declared the winner over a man who has run his own campaign to obtain more votes from the populace, and hasn’t sold out to the GOPe.

The premise that Cruz could win that way should prevent folks from voting for him, providing they are sick and tired of the RNC GOPe governing like Democrats.

So go Ted go. AWAY!


35 posted on 03/23/2016 12:15:41 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Anyone but Trump guarantees a continuation of GOPe business as usual.

GOPe helped sell out American jobs and ship manufacturing jobs out of the country.

Gope is for H1b and illegals, the hell with American STEM professionals, and high school educated and less educated workers for “Cheap Labor Express” Illegal Aliens.

Gope has favored wars so the military defense manufacturing industry could have a steady stream of conflicts to sell our armed services weapons. Most of these wars were protecting other countries interests not ours.

Makes one want to become a Libertarian and address the deficit.


36 posted on 03/23/2016 12:16:04 PM PDT by Zenjitsuman (A)
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To: bigbob

Actually, I think they are under the impression that the side that posts the most crap articles wins


Which is great. An avalanche of BS links probably has about the same effect as $200 million in negative Trump ads.

MAGA!


37 posted on 03/23/2016 12:17:01 PM PDT by 20yearsofinternet (Border: Close it. Illegals: Deport. Muslims: Ban 'em. Economy: Liberate it. PC: Kill it. Trump 2016)
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To: Zenjitsuman
Here's what's left up for grabs, 1237 or not. It shows Wisconsis as WTA
but it is by districts/statewide.

The remaining Primaries/caucuses......

Date
State
D Del.
R Del.
Type
Sat, Mar 26 Alaska Caucus (D) 20 Closed
Sat, Mar 26 Hawaii Caucus (D) 34 Closed
Sat, Mar 26 Washington Caucus (D) 118 Closed
Tue, Apr 5 Wisconsin 96 42 (WTA) Open
Sat, Apr 9 Wyoming Caucus (D) 18 Closed
Tue, Apr 19 New York 291 95 (P) Closed
Tue, Apr 26 Connecticut 70 28 (P) Closed
Tue, Apr 26 Delaware 31 16 (WTA) Closed
Tue, Apr 26 Maryland 118 38 (WTA) Closed
Tue, Apr 26 Pennsylvania 210 71 (P, WTA) Closed
Tue, Apr 26 Rhode Island 33 19 (P) Mixed
Tue, May 3 Indiana 92 57 (WTA) Open
Sat, May 7 Guam (D) 12 Closed
Tue, May 10 Nebraska (R) 36 Closed
Tue, May 10 West Virginia 34 37 Mixed
Tue, May 17 Kentucky (D) 61 Closed
Tue, May 17 Oregon 73 28 (P) Closed
Tue, May 24 Washington (R)* 44 (P) Closed
Sat, Jun 4 Virgin Islands Caucus (D) 12 Open
Sun, Jun 5 Puerto Rico Caucus (D) 67 Open
Tue, Jun 7 California 546 172 (P) Mixed
Tue, Jun 7 Montana 27 27 (WTA) Open
Tue, Jun 7 New Jersey 142 51 (WTA) Closed
Tue, Jun 7 New Mexico 43 24 (P) Closed
Tue, Jun 7 North Dakota Caucus (D) 23 Closed
Tue, Jun 7 South Dakota 25 29 (WTA) Closed
Tue, Jun 14 District of Columbia (D) 46 Closed

Allocation – All Democratic primary/caucus delegates are proportionally allocated. Republican primaries/caucuses are listed as Proportional (P), Winner-Take-All (WTA), or Winner-Take-Most (WTM).
Proportional – Delegates are awarded based on the percentage of the vote received by candidates, or some formulation of dividing up the delegates
Winner Take All – All delegates are given to the winner of the contest
Winner Take Most – Some delegates are reserved for the winner, some may be divided proportionally
Unbound – Delegates are not bound to a specific candidate and can support any candidate of their choosing, varies by state party

Type
Open– Voters may vote in either party primary but can choose only one
Closed – Only voters registered in their respective party may vote in the party primary
Mixed – A semi-open or semi-closed environment, unaffiliated voters can choose to vote in either primary or can switch registration the day of voting

38 posted on 03/23/2016 12:17:24 PM PDT by deport
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To: GodGunsGuts

Speculation about something that is not going to happen.


39 posted on 03/23/2016 12:17:45 PM PDT by TheStickman (If we don't elect a PRO-America president in 2016 we lose the country!)
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To: Lexington Green

IF Trump wins these ‘winner take all’ states outright...

Pennsylvania 26-Apr 71
Delaware 26-Apr 16
Maryland 26-Apr 38
Indiana 3-May 57
New Jersey 7-Jun 51
California 7-Jun 172

Then he would only need to take 93 delegates in total from these states remaining ‘proportional’ states...

West Virginia 10-May 34
Oregon 17-May 28
New Mexico 7-Jun 24
Utah 22-Mar 40
New York 19-Apr 95
Connecticut 26-Apr 28
Rhode Island 26-Apr 19
Washington 24-May 44
American Samoa 22-Mar 9
North Dakota 1-Apr 28

Wisconsin 5-Apr 42
Nebraska 10-May 36
Montana 7-Jun 27
North Dakota 1-Apr 28
South Dakota 7-Jun 29


40 posted on 03/23/2016 12:18:44 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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