Posted on 06/09/2016 4:31:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump is right. He did electrify the electorate in the Republican primaries. And the numbers prove it.
In the 2012 GOP primaries, which former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney won, a total of 21.5 million votes were cast. In the 2008 primaries, which put Arizona Senator John McCain at the top of the Republican presidential ticket, 22.8 million people cast primary ballots, according to Real Clear Politics.
But this year, about 7 million more Americans voted in the GOP primaries than in 2012, for a total of 28.5 million. Of those, 13.3 million votes were for Trump.
True, Romney won by 5.9 million votes in 2012, and Trump beat his closest competitor by about 5.6 million. But the Republicans started the 2016 primary season with 17 contenders, including well-known and well-funded candidates like former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and dogged, organized competitors such as Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who with 7.6 million votes came closest to challenging Trump. By contrast, Romney was up against a much less compelling field: former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Texas Representative Ron Paul....
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Wouldn’t it just be that the primaries were effectively over in 2012 by the time of the southern primaries at the latest?
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