I keep pointing out that South Carolina is an open primary state. What happened there is that DEMOCRATS voted for Trump. Establishment types voted for Rubio.
75 percent of voters were Evangelicals. Trump whipped Cruz's ass. You can't blame the Democrats for this one.
With Burney and Hillary hard at it, difficult to believe that many OpChaos Dems went Republican in SC.
The ones that did went for Jeb, obviously the softest target for November.
Uh-huh. Sure
So the can't vote again for the dim caucus in support of Bernie....?
Sorry, but the numbers don’t bear out your thesis. Fully 1/3 of Evangelical voters went for Trump. Both Ds and Rs have too much at stake right now to bother with crossover voting. All you are doing is making excuses for Cruz, but it’s not working.
Thanks for pointing that out. I had completely forgotten that idiosyncrasy with SC. I was flabbergasted by Sen Cruz's apparent poor showing
Do you really believe that Dems who care whether Hillary or Bernie wins their primary are going to waste their vote by voting in GOP primary? You can only vote in one or the other.
That said I don’t put much store in anonymous quotes and find it hard to believe someone still in a campaign would say that. Although I support Trump.
in South Carolina, a state with an enormous evangelical vote.
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I keep pointing out that South Carolina is an open primary state. What happened there is that DEMOCRATS voted for Trump. Establishment types voted for Rubio.
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Trust me, I’m here, that’s not what happened. Every demographic voted for Trump.
Do you live in SC?
I do, and am very familiar with SC politics. That is not what happened. Trump had overwhelming support in this state in all voter categories.
It had nothing to do with it being an open primary state. He had the majority of the Republican voter support
Sounds like you are telling yourself something that you wish were true.
The numbers were broken down. Of the dem crossovers, 33% went to Trump, 30% split between rubio and Cruz and the rest spread out over the others.
On my pad or I’d find you the link
Cruz is losing everywhere, may even lose Texas. Can’t blame Democrats...he should maybe finish his term as Senator before he fills himself with self righteous hubris again.
Dem crossover votes for all three top 3.
Cruz got fewer. Translation, he would never have had a chance in the general.
Exactly right. Conservatives have been so successfully demonized by both the GOP establishment and the leftist Democrats, that many folks shy away from any real conservative candidate.
Plus, these open primaries are rife with dishonest opportunists crossing over and voting in the GOP primary in order to skew the results. Having open primaries are one of the most idiotic things the GOP does....among a plethora of other idiotic, stupid things the GOP does.
I actually read that evangelicals were fairly split on who they voted for, enough to where a couple of the pseudo pastor/political consultant wannabe types wrote blistering letters to the evangelicals telling ‘em to stop voting for Donnie boy and get all behind Mr. Sachs, cuz Jesus wants to cut out the middle-man or something.
18 f-——ing whores in this election and the pack ‘em add up to about 9 phonies, 400 pounds of low grade fertilizer and horribly misused human skin.
“DEMOCRATS voted for Trump.”
Not surprising. Trump beats the rest of the Republican field in every demographic, including those not normally bound to our party.
He’s got an appeal that crosses over every division of class, education, race, location, earnings, and political persuasion.
Like Reagan before him, he’ll run the table because of that.
The Dem primary is held this week. We will see how the turnout is compared to past Dem primaries. The Reps set a record as they have in Iowa and NH. No doubt there will be a big turnout in NV for the Reps. In NV, the Dems had one third less than in 2008.
Please post data to support your claim that it is crossover voters that allowed a Trump win in SC.
Trump won among republicans with 32%. This made up 76% of the primary vote. In a closed primary he would have won.
Trump won among independents with 33%. Rubio was second among independent voters, that is largely where he passed Cruz. Ind did more to help Rubio than they did Trump. Ind were 22% of the primary vote.
Registered dems made up only 2% of the GOP primary and didt not affect who won. They may have influenced some of the down ballot positioning.
Analysis of the actual numbers shows the dem vote did not affect the final SC results.
If you have actual hard data to the contrary please ping me.