Posted on 01/17/2016 2:49:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
HOLLIS, N.H. - After months of predicting a comeback for their preferred candidates, Republican establishment leaders now concede the first two contests of the presidential race, in Iowa and New Hampshire early next month, are Donald Trump's and Ted Cruz's to lose.
That leaves many GOP traditionalists, who fear each candidate would be a disaster in the November general election, pinning their White House hopes on a feat no Republican has pulled off in modern political history: securing the nomination without winning at least one of the first two states on the calendar.
It's a risky strategy at best, and party officials are hoping that weaker candidates will drop out before the South Carolina primary that follows New Hampshire, allowing voters to more easily coalesce behind an alternative to the billionaire real estate mogul and the Texas senator....
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Jeebus these guys are clueless....
The Donald has single highhandedly demolished the Republican Overseers. How much trust can you put in the guy?
Marco killed himself with that immigrant comment.
Excellent news. GO TRUMP GO
The next shot of tequila I down will be with a nod to this post - cheers!
Are the primaries over before a single vote is cast?
I predict truly skeevy and patently fraudulent actions by the RNC/GOPe to try and force their preferred candidate down our throats.
Why not, they did it before.
If Trump wins Iowa and NH, he'll win South Carolina. Then the rest of the South.
If Cruz wins Iowa and Trump takes NH, it's still a horserace.
I'm feeling like this is going to be over very soon in the primary process.
May the RINO/GOPe get a lump of coal.
Like Dole MacCain and Romney weren’t disasters??????
For decades, the Iowa Caucuses have served to winnow the field to three, or at most four, candidates.
Looks to me like this thing is already winnowed down to two.
Remarkable.
Although, I suppose that whomever pulls off third in Iowa might be able to maintain some small hopes, barely.
If Trump and Sanders win Iowa and NH we’ll see flop-sweat terror from the GOPe and DEMe.
Remember Mississippi!
Barring something totally disastrous, this one will likely wrap up by mid March.
Finally, most of the southern states will not have to wait until late spring to vote. Most have moved their primaries to March 1.
By the end of March about 1567 delegate count votes will have been cast and about 1305 (with bonus delegates) is needed to wrap up the nomination.
Several of the early states have open primaries. That could hurt certain candidates and help other candidates.
The Cheap Labor Express is really starting to sweat now.
Hope is not a strategy.
If there was a workable strategy the establishment Uniparty could employ in this race, they would have already done so.
I’m feeling like this is going to be over very soon in the primary process.>>>
most of them are that’s why i will likely vote for bernie. I love the dem wackos. (i’m in pay we vote in may)
Plague, but even the plague has better standards than the RINO GOPe crowd.
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