Free Republic 2016 Caucus Open Discussion Thread LXII

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[Windflier]

Free Republic 2016 Caucus Open Discussion Thread LXI

[Windflier]

FR Caucus discussion ping

[bigbob]

Wonder what accounts for the impressive trend of the past few days?

[DoughtyOne]

I think it’s finally dawning on people, and they don’t want to see a floor fight at the convention.

At least I sure hope that’s it.

[Windflier]

Wonder what accounts for the impressive trend of the past few days?

I think it's the combined weight of reality and events sinking in. One can only be sustained by hope for so long.

[DoughtyOne]

Results 2016 03/20

[DoughtyOne]

[HWGruene]

Keep calm and listen to Bach cello in an new window while you freep. Beautiful. Soothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWZ1vKjv0Eg

[Repeal The 17th]

Thank you for your diligence.
I do not understand the “study” part of the summaries from wiki and RCP.

[Lonely Bull]

Table 1: Free Republic Caucus 2016 threads, most recent 15 days

Date	Voting thread	Discussion thread	Results [on www.hotr.us]	Sequence no.
3/21	[link]	[link]	[available later]	62
3/20	[link]	[link]	[link]	61
3/19	[link]	[link]	[link]	60
3/18	[link]	[link]	[link]	59
3/17	[link]	[link]	[link]	58
3/16	[link]	[link]	[link]	57
3/15	[link]	[link]	[link]	56
3/14	[link]	[link]	[link]	55
3/13	[link]	[link]	[link]	54
3/12	[link]	[link]	[link]	53
3/11	[link]	[link]	[link]	52
3/10	[link]	[link]	[link]	51
3/09	[link]	[link]	[link]	50
3/08	[link]	[link]	[link]	49
3/07	[link]	[link]	[link]	48

Table 2: tables with older threads

Dates	Table	Sequence nos.
3/02 - 3/16	[link]	43-57
2/24 - 3/09	[link]	36-50
2/17 - 3/02	[link]	29-43
2/10 - 2/24	[link]	22-36
2/03 - 2/17	[link]	15-29
1/27 - 2/10	[link]	8-22
1/20 - 2/03	[link]	1-15

[Nita Nupress]

Okay, i have to ask... Those 3 anomalies that just linger and linger and reoccur... Is that different people each time or the same ones? Many times i post late at night when i’m half asleep, so some of it could very well be me. Just wondering.

[sargon]

Looks like the ratio is now at 5-to-1 for Donald Trump over Ted Cruz, at least as far as those who are energized enough to vote on the FR caucus thread, which is, of course, open to all FR members.

There certainly doesn't seem to be much momentum for Ted Cruz on this forum...

[kaehurowing]

I think the leftist violence against Trump and his supporters is having the opposite effect, that is that more and more Americans are seeing the light on the fascist left and are coming over to Trump.

Just this afternoon a leftist acquaintance sent out an email blast claiming Trump was racist, his supporters were violent, etc.

I sent a “reply all” that said this guy was gull of crap and included a link to the YouTube video of the black policeman describing his experience at the Trump rally—I told folks to watch that.

I suspect the original sender is totally pissed at me, but it was his mistake for including me on one of his leftist anti-Trump rants.

[spokeshave]

a link to the YouTube video of the black policeman describing his experience at the Trump rally—I told folks to watch that.

That guy was very impressive....covered all the bases...on target....little but humorous.....while being anxious.

[DoughtyOne]

Those are breaches, and duplicates.

A breach is a vote that did not conform to the guidelines.

A breach can also occur when someone posts a comment to the thread.

A duplicate is someone who forgot and voted again. Then generally doesn’t go beyond two votes per day, but I have had a couple of people vote three times in one day. That’s since January 20th. Not too bad.

Only the last valid vote each day is honored. The others are marked duplicates, and report out at the top.

You have not been a big problem... heh heh heh...

No problem at all is more to the point. “:^)

[DoughtyOne]

Those are workups on how much of the remaining delegates each person needs to win to get the 1237 delegates required to avoid a floor fight.

They report out as numbers, and percents.

remaining delegates print at the bottom of those two columns, and if you’ll look at it again, I think it will make sense now.

[Lisbon1940]

It is open to all FReepers, but very few participate.

[DoughtyOne]

I forgot to address if it’s the same people each day.

People are pretty good about conforming to the rules, so no, it’s not the same people making breaches each day.

There were a few problem people, but they tired of goofing around and stopped.

As for duplicates, some of the same people do that on a regular basis.

I don’t necessarily mind, but it does drive up the non-valid vote percentages, so I would rather folks not double-vote if they haven’t forgotten if they voted or not.

I have written a few notes, but I don’t want to give folks a hard time over this. Some folks remember better than others.

I do things while thinking of something else, so I know how folks can forget.

[Repeal The 17th]

Got it, thanks!
I don’t think anyone will get to 1237.

[Windflier]

I’m sure the results of our in-house poll mirror polls conducted by the campaigns. Why else would Ted be suddenly creating strange alliances with well known establishment heavies?

I think he’s realized for some time, that he can’t get to 1,237 on his own, and that his only path to the nomination runs through the convention.

It’s why Romney launched that searing attack on Trump, then later came out and endorsed Cruz. It’s also why Ted publicly thanked Mitt, as well. Ted’s already burned his bridge to the people and no longer cares whether we vote for him or not. Like Jeb before him, appearances mean nothing to him now, because he doesn’t need us to get where he intends to go.