* LIVE TUE 3/22 ELECTION THREAD (AZ and UT)

Self | 3/22 | tatown

[tatown]

AZ - 58 delegates (Winner Take All)

UT - 40 delegates (Proportional, WTA > 50%)

[antceecee]

First... I believe Ted Cruz has the ability to build up this country. Second... I do not believe his destiny is in being POTUS. Third... I am not sure he loves USA sovereignty and culture as absolute. Last point is my problem.

[PA Engineer]

On purpose? I inquire because I remember trying to diet decades back after a series of children and that diet required a state of ketosis, IIRC, or perhaps it was merely called the Ketogenic Diet.

On purpose. It completely changed my lipid profile amongst many other things.

After the first couple of weeks, it became easier and easier to maintain. Now I have added cyclical fasting (12 hours minimum of fasting a day).

It is hard to walk by the bread, however it is fleeting. After a great deal of research, I understand the issues of insulin dysregulation. Makes it easy now to stick to it. My wife and I have researched the ketogenic diet for another research project and found that almost every neurodegenerative disease is metabolic. It has been an eye opener.

The gentlemen in the hospital is one of my wife's movements patients. She told me the history and I felt sad for the family. I agreed to make the bread (and red feather butter) for her to take to them during her rounds.

[jjsheridan5]

It can’t be 9% of the vote (12%, now). Nothing from Utah County, and a handful of votes from SLC. These outlying counties, some of which are 100% in, are tiny.

[RitaOK]

W. needs to rest his case, I think. It does not help his own legacy to endorse Cruz anyway. Endorsements do not matter but in very few cases, like Sessions. That was awesome.

[goldstategop]

If Cruz starts winning where he isn’t supposed to, we could revisit it.

[JayGalt]

Push polls by a discredited agency. Turnout at rally and primary voting doesn’t support your hypothesis.

[Freedom56v2]

: RitaOK

This was just posted.

What a mess...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412567/posts

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You don’t think Mittens encouraged cheating by the kittens in the caucuses?!?! :(

[Bobalu]

[goldstategop]

Cruz has blowout margins in rural counties.

Major population centers are still out, which is why the networks haven’t called it yet.

14% in - CNN just called UT for Cruz!

[r_barton]

You would really have to search to find a shirt that ugly.

[Suz in AZ]

“Maybe Mormons don’t think Mitt Choked, but its a fair opinion many of us share.”

Yes, we think just that. And many of us are angry about the damage these men are doing to our church and our Constitution. We all voted Trump here.

Keep in mind that there is a cultural difference between Utah/Idaho Mormons and the rest of us.

My mom had some Romney stuff and her computer still that she deleted tonight. She’s done with him. He and Beck are evil.

[antceecee]

Some here need to grow a sense of humor.

[Vision Thing]

Be careful: posting a picture like that may overly excite JediJones in the same way seminude pictures of Melania excite Trump’s male voters. LOL!

[VerySadAmerican]

How can Cruz AND Trump over perform on the polling. Cruz was supposed to be at 50% and Trump at 11%. So far they’re showing Cruz at 67% and Trump at 15%. If this holds does it mean more votes than voters were counted?

Example: Cruz is supposed to get 50 out of 100 votes in one caucus, Trump 11 and others 39. But Cruz gets 70 votes, Trump gets 15 and others get 39. That’s 124 votes. So Cruz’s percentage is figured on 70 votes out of 100 instead of 70 out of 124. Am I way off?

[goldstategop]

CNN called UT for Cruz a few minutes ago.

As expected, he’s won all 40 delegates WTA.

[grey_whiskers]

You're moving the goalposts, there. Your actual quote was: Im not sure Cruz would work after all the water under the bridge....

And my mentioning of snake handlers, was not "water under the bridge" but how Cruz got such a reaction even from ostensible *friendlies*, merely by being a world-class prick: and a number of his positions are anything but conservative (immigration, H1-B, trade). Limbaugh talked about his strategy, and it looks like he carefully crafted a persona for the campaign.

So I doubt his actual conservatism: as, you may note, most of the Bible Belt gave more votes to Trump than to him.

But the "impression" and opportunity for cheap shot caricatures remain.

Guess what his enemies are going to do?

[entropy12]

Cruz has mainly won caucus states with voters subjected to coercion. He lost every state in deep south, and every standard primary outside of his home state. Hillary will eat Cruz alive in general because there are no caucus elections in November.

[true believer forever]

Dead wrong. Polls show Cruz outperforms Trump against Hillary consistently and thoroughly. No candidate can compete with Hillary on unfavorability and untrustworthiness moreso than Trump.

You Cruz supporters don't get it. I would say a large percentage of people in this country don't even know who Ted Cruz is at this point. That's not the case with political junkies of all types, but it is with the general voting population at this point.

And what about Trump? They all know his name and have some awareness of all the media hits on him, esp late night TV, facebook, etc.

If Ted Cruz ever got 65% as well known as Trump, I venture to say HIS unfavorables would be through the roof and to the moon.

I know Ted and Levin are always complaining how little media time he gets, but there is truly no comfort to be had for Ted in this matter.

[jjsheridan5]

It may be a long night seeing whether Cruz stays above 50%. Cruz is dominating the small and medium sized counties, but Provo and SLC are still out there, and may have different dynamics than the rest of the state. We will see. Personally, I think Cruz will actually stay above 60%, but it isn’t set in stone.

Either way this is an absurdly premature call, unless they have additional information that isn’t showing up on the website.

[RitaOK]

I have thought the very same thing, onyx. She is the one in all the WRONG places, before he ever gets there. Just following the calendar and the dots and it forms at minimum, an indication.