Posted on 04/06/2016 2:46:38 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Donald Trump's victories in the Republican primaries may make him seem like a sure winner. But those victories have been achieved by receiving either somewhat less than 40 percent of the votes or somewhat more than 40 percent, but never a majority.
The fragmenting of the Republican vote among many candidates in the primaries made this possible. But victory in the general election for President of the United States in November is going to require a lot more than 40 percent of the votes. And polls consistently show Mr. Trump to be the most negatively regarded of any of the candidates in either party.
In some Republican winner-take-all states, 40 percent of the votes can be enough to get 100 percent of the delegates. This leverage might enable Trump to gain a majority of the delegates needed to become the party’s nominee.
But Trump and his supporters want more. They are now talking as if winning a plurality of the delegates ought to be enough to gain him the nomination, despite his failing to get a majority, as required by long-standing rules.
There is a reason why the rules require a candidate for the nomination to receive a majority of the delegates. If you cannot even get a majority of the delegates in your own party, how can you expect to win the November election for President?
Delegates get their first opportunity to choose a candidate by voting according to the way their respective primary voters voted. But, if that process fails to produce a winner, then delegates can vote again, this time on the basis of their own best judgments, for as many rounds of voting as it may take before someone gets a majority.
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Cruz has no positives.
All he can say is he is not Trump and doesn’t have terrible polling as Trump. That’s not a serious candidate.
“Hey... Who got his ass kicked last night?”
“Trump got his ass kicked last night”
Five minutes later... “Hey... Who got his ass kicked last night?”
“Trump got his ass kicked last night”
Five minutes later... “Hey,... Who got his ass kicked last night?”
“I keep telling you, Trump got his ass kicked last night. Don’t you remember?”
“Yeah... But I just like hearing you say it!”
yep got his ass kicked by the establishment, are you proud?
Facts:
1) Except in the very odd/exceptional election year of 1964, the Dems haven’t cracked 50% of the whites in a Presidential election since 1932.
2) Once the ‘64 election was over, the Dems understood that they would never win another Presidential election again unless the Republicans REALLY screwed up...or unless they changed the electorate in a dramatic way.
3) The Dems, courtesy of Bobby Kennedy who wrote the law, and Teddy Kennedy who pushed it in the Senate, passed the 1965 Immigration Act. That law dramatically reduced immigration from our then-traditional large sources of immigrants - England, Ireland, Holland, Germany, etc. - and replaced them with vast numbers of Turd Worlders...whom everyone knows vote around 80% for Dems, and will continue to do so for the rest of their lives, as new immigrants have traditionally done.
4) As a result of the ‘65 Act, and due to the Dem’s outright lying in ‘86 regarding an effective (or any) fence, there are now probably 30 - 40 million illegals in this nation. Note that the (probably low-ball) figure in 2005 was 11 million...we have 2-3 million come in every year, so simple math says that the number is actually somewhere between 31 and 41 million). If any substantial portion of these people ever become citizens, then the Dems will have accomplished a complete shift of the electorate, and will be virtually invincible on the national level. Every state will become like California, both politically and economically - which is to say, overwhelming Dem and broke. But at least if you don’t like California now, you can leave for a better place without much trouble - where are you going to go if EVERY state is like that?
5) Every Republican, and every Conservative voter MUST UNDERSTAND that if such a state of affairs comes to be, NO OTHER ISSUE WILL MATTER AT ALL, because we will ALWAYS AND FOREVER lose on those issues. Immigration is THE issue of this election, and this election is as critical as the 1860 election was - and for the same reason, because it will determine whether this nation continues on as it has existed in the past, or becomes a new and unrecognizable entity that simply occupies the same geographic territory.
Please wake up, and help others to do so by sending them this post (or recommending “Adios America” to them). It really is THAT important.
Yep! You have no idea!
good for you, well done , you hold your head up high on how you are an establishment hack.
It will be heart wrenching for all of the Cruz supporters who believed that Ted was the anointed one. I willna vote for the Democrat or GOPe globalist!
There is a profound reason why Phyllis, Sarah, Sheriff Joe, Franklin and Jeff endorsed Trump.
This election is about allegiance to the United States. Make no mistake.
Do you folks think for one hot minute that if it were Jeb in Trumps position that the GOPe would allow Kasich to stay in? That they would have allowed Cruz to stay in? Fools!
Here is me with a foreshadowing when your delusions about Cruz crash & burn: I told you so.
As the results were coming in, The Donald released a pitiful, nasty statement unworthy of a presidential candidate.
Classic.
O-k. But he's not running.
Good grief. Perhaps we should vote for the candidate who is ahead of him right now. Oh, there isn’t one? Trump it is then.
All this crap about what Trump cannot do when he is openly winning is disgusting.
Let's go back four years...
Mitt Romney's victories in the Republican primaries may make him seem like a sure winner. But those victories have been achieved by ...
Excellent humor and excellent article by Dr. Sowell!
So, Who got is ass kicked last night?
Trump got his ass kicked last night!
Definitely worth repeating....
I’m sure he’ll be happy with Hillary, as will you.
There is a reason why the rules require a candidate for the nomination to receive a majority of the delegates. If you cannot even get a majority of the delegates in your own party, how can you expect to win the November election for President?
Well 1st off this is BS!
Donald Trump 743
Ted Cruz 517
Donald Trump 743
Ted Cruz 517
“This election is about allegiance to the United States.”
Odd. Your candidate thinks it is about allegiance to Trump....
“Back in December Phyllis Schlafly wrote at World Net Daily that Donald Trump was the last hope for America.”
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