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To: VaRepublican

I think you missed his point. Trump claims the delegate system is rigged against him. In the winner-take-all states (and quite few others), the delegate system benefitted Trump. He didn’t have to win 51% in those states to get all of the delegates.

If things were “fair” the way Trump wants them, delegates would be allocated proportional to the vote. He wouldn’t be doing quite as well under such a system.

Trump has the majority of delegates. It makes no sense to claim something is rigged when you are doing all of the damn winning.


13 posted on 04/18/2016 12:34:16 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

If things were “fair” we would have had President Al Gore.


27 posted on 04/18/2016 12:44:51 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Yea but he won “THE VOTE”.


35 posted on 04/18/2016 12:50:52 PM PDT by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
I think you missed his point. Trump claims the delegate system is rigged against him. In the winner-take-all states (and quite few others), the delegate system benefitted Trump. He didn’t have to win 51% in those states to get all of the delegates.

That's eminently more fair, because at least they allowed the entire GOP voting public the option of voting.

Furthermore, that bears NO resemblance to a system put in place to deliberately exclude outsiders, and to award ALL the delegates to the insider designated ABRITRARILY by the party apparatchiks.

Ted Cruz has also benefited from Winner Take All primaries.

The People are much more concerned about "greased skids" schemes to completely bypass the voting public at large, which is exactly what happened in Colorado (and Wyoming, for that matter). Rush even admitted it a few days ago, talking about how the plan was to make sure that no "outsiders" could get the Colorado delegates, only Jeb Bush, the designated GOPe darling (which became Ted Cruz by default once Jeb was squashed like an insect by Trump, and once Cruz jumped into bed with the GOPe).

Colorado Delegates Speak Out On The Steal

Once again, Cruz fanboys are trying to compare apples and oranges...

61 posted on 04/18/2016 1:43:09 PM PDT by sargon (No king but Christ!)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Typical of the Trumpkins to miss the point, and you are absolutely correct.

Trump is impressive only in that he has been able to convince a group of lemmings that he is being cheated even though he is winning, and the rules have actually helped him.


70 posted on 04/18/2016 2:00:24 PM PDT by Vanbasten
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Show me where Trump said the system is “Rigged Against Him”.


71 posted on 04/18/2016 2:06:31 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Aim small, Miss small.)
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