Posted on 03/06/2016 2:37:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Louisiana state GOP announced the current estimated delegate breakdown: Ted Cruz and Donald Trump both get 18, Marco Rubio gets 5. How is this possible, when Trump got more votes? Well, the popular vote count statewide was effectively a two-man race, as only Trump and Cruz got above 20%. Those at-large delegates (28 total) went 12 for Trump, 11 for Cruz, 5 unbound. But! Louisiana has 6 Congressional Districts, and each gets 3 delegates (18 total). In five of those districts the state GOP is unofficially calling it as Cruz, Rubio, and Trump all getting 1 delegate... except in LA-05, where Cruz gets 2 and Trump gets 1. Thus, the current score is 18-18, with 5 for Rubio and the other 5 officially unaffiliated*.
All of this, by the way, will be the subject of much vigorous debate and discussion in Louisiana political circles over the next week, which probably means that there's going to be a brawl at the upcoming state convention.
Still: if you thought that Donald Trump's awful, no-good night was at least over for him, rest assured: it's not. The universe itself conspires to come back to the tableau* of his humiliation and dump one last small, yet stinking, dollop of embarrassment on his head. As it stands now, the guy didn't even win the delegate count in Louisiana. He could only manage to tie with Ted Cruz, a man who Trump just recently described as "L-I-E-N." Perhaps he meant "lion?" It's so hard to tell, with that particular dude.
Moe Lane
PS: If you were ever wondering what good a professional campaign organization can do for a candidate, it's this: it can take a state where the polls had a candidate down by 15 points on Election Day, and turn it into a state where the candidate tied for first in the delegate count. And perfectly ethically, too! The rules are the rules, and they're perfectly reasonable ones; it's nobody's fault except Trump and his campaign's if they didn't actually read them, and Ted Cruz's people did. Welcome to the big leagues...
*The Republican party doesn't really use super-delegates to the override-the-will-of-the-voters extent that the Democrats do, but the party has a few.
**Well, you know. Louisiana. French. It seemed like a good word to use, under the circumstances.
“Donald Trump’s awful, no-good night”
A little over the top. Trump did pretty well. Was Super Tuesday an “awful, no-good night” for Cruz? It seems to me the results were comparable for each.
What this is showing above all else is how this system is rigged against the will of the actual voters. Tell me the distinction between what we have now and what the USSR had under the commits and the central committee leadership.
It was a bad night for Trump because it shattered any lingering idea that Trump was going to run away with the nomination. Trump got less delagates than Cruz yesterday and the momentum was clearly all on Cruz’s side. Then today Trump got completely shut out of the Puerto Rico delegates - this is making it much harder for Trump to win a majority of the delegates.
Trump is the best candidate to win against Hillary or Sanders. He does need to rein in his counter punch emotionalism.
Spoken like a true anti-Trump guy. Donald Trump had a pretty good night, winning the two biggest states, LA and KY. Had he lost either one of these, he would have had a bad night. I hope Trump does well on Tuesday!
Awesome!!!
Trump is going to destroy Cruz on every single state on the east and west coast except Maine.
That’s not what the head-to-head polls say.
Trump and Cruz own over 70%of the vote. That’s anti-establishment. If either one leaves, the other will get our votes.
Trump will get the delegates. Cruz will pledge his delegates to Trump. Trump will be the nominee, Cruz will get SCOTUS and the world will be better for it.
I voted for Cruz, but should Trump ultimately win the nomination I am voting for him because I am part of that 70%,
Go Ted Cruz!
Hahahahaha!
LIEN? Wasn’t that used in Trump’s Mussolini quote?
Candidates slip when would-be voters have unresolved questions about them. This explains the LOW Democrat turn-out because of Hillary.
Ridiculous. He did not have a bad night. He had the best night of all of them. The rationalization of all of the candidates this year is downright frightening. I don’t even care who wins anymore.
Blown away Cruz won two tied one and still took many delegates in ky.
Polls have been way off
The US govt is communist. Its run by totalitarians. You dont get 20 trillion in debt unless you are communist. The people who control the govt control the media. Another point of communism. We the people ate free to work and pay taxes, thats it. Black lives matters is communist which is sponsored by the govt in order to take freedom away from those who would bring change ,or accountability to the govt. The list goes on and on. Wake up America !
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