[Berosus]

While I am pleased to hear Trump is doing well in the polls, why is this news? I can’t remember any time when Connecticut decided the Republican nomination, or a presidential election.

[jjsheridan5]

While I am pleased to hear Trump is doing well in the polls, why is this news? I can’t remember any time when Connecticut decided the Republican nomination, or a presidential election.

Actually, this is hugely important. The GOPe knows that their candidate will not fare well in the south, and probably the midwest/mountain states. Their overall strategy is predicated on the assumption that they clean up in the blue states. For Trump to be doing this well in states like Connecticut, NH, Mass, and Colorado, is devastating to them.

Connecticut itself won't decide anything. But states like Connecticut going to a non-GOPe candidate decisively destroys the chances of a Bush/Dole/Bush/McCain/Romney/Bush candidate. And for it to be falling in the hands of a candidate like Trump is their worst nightmare.

[SamuraiScot]

While I am pleased to hear Trump is doing well in the polls, why is this news?

If Trump is doing well in a blue state, that's bad for the GOPe's strategy to nominate a RINO by making all the (later) blue-state primaries winner-take-all while the (earlier) red-state primaries are proportional. They set things up that way, hoping they could drop radioactive money bombs in favor of Yeb or Cruz to take all the blue-state primaries, once the red-state contests were over.

But if this result is a bellwether for red states in general, the GOPe strategy would bite them in the rear: All of a sudden, their attempt to "fix" the primaries would multiply Trump's momentum by handing him all the delegates in the later primaries, which happen to be in RINO states.

If this result is predictive of GOP primary voter behavior in blue states, the implications are, so to speak, "yuge."