Exclusive: Blocking Trump could hurt Republicans in election - Reuters/Ipsos poll

Yahoo News ^ | 9 Apr 2016 | Chris Kahn

[Chgogal]

You're funny. ;)

[gogeo]

Even now, it looks as if maybe Mr. Trump needs to use part of the “veterans” donations he received back in February to keep his campaign liquid.

Source? Besides your arse, I mean?

[TomGuy]

The sad thing is that this WAS a winnable election. Hillary is a weak candidate. Once again, the republicans are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It’s almost like they don’t care if they win.

You can't blame it all on the GOPestablishment. The Battered Conservative Syndrome base is also to blame. They keep voting for the same and expecting a different result.

[Canedawg]

What party turns on their frontrunner? These people are idiots.

Exactly!

[WildHighlander57]

Yep, funny, as in odd funny,

because look at the way cruuze supporters bash their fellow American Donald Trump.

[llmc1]

Yeah, it’s a mess. But I’m pretty sure I’ll be voting against Hillary in November. There is no perfect candidate, but it’s either vote for the rep, or let the dems keep winning the presidency and the Supreme Court.

[DugwayDuke]

“So was 2012. How’d that work out?”

No, 2012 didn’t work out well at all. So, why are we trying to recreate 2012 again?

[WildHighlander57]

CB, thanks for pointing out the chaos in Iowa.

Dan, thanks for describing how it went in Kansas.

Caucuses can be orderly or not; it’s the ones that are not which are anathema....

[DugwayDuke]

“Just like 2012. Want to win or want another also-ran? The GOP establishment seems determined to make 2016 another also-ran election.”

The GOP primary voters seem to be doing a rather good job of it themselves. I also blame the candidates. Cut the name calling. Quit accusing each other of nefarious conspiracies. Tell me how you’re going to beat Hillary if you want my support.

[WildHighlander57]

When did it become unwinnable?

[Cats1]

Only a third would walk? I bet it would be more.

[DugwayDuke]

“Yep. We’re doomed no matter what. The Democrats are hobbled with Hillary as their standard-bearer and in an election when practically anyone should’ve been able to soundly wallop her, we’ve managed to rally behind the only two candidates who can’t.”

I also blame the candidates. I’m fed up with both of them. They need to stop the childish name-calling. Stop accusing each other of playing unfair games. Start telling me how you’re going to win the general election.

[DugwayDuke]

You might want to read the polls. Both Hillary and Sanders beat the crap out of both Cruz and Trump.

[gogeo]

If the rules, known only to the inner apparatchik of the state level GOPe, are perceived by Joe Six-Pack to be unfair against Trump & his voters, the GOPe will be forever is fatally damaged.

All this talk of arcane rules for delegates is no more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The GOPee has lost the benefit of doubt with a sizeable portion of its historical voting base. Those who do not require a color diagram to keep up recognize this. Trump has kept them in the party.

Absent a hostile takeover (Trump) the GOPee is destined for the scrap heap. There's not a lot of basis for historical comparison but I'd guess the GOPee (as is) won't field a presidential candidate in 2028.

All these arcane rules are, as they say, another brick in the wall. And declaring war on Trump? Bad idea. The GOPee is in denial, because what they think they might win will not balance what they will inevitably lose.

IMO, the RATs are headed for the same type of realignment.

[jmaroneps37]

NO TRUMP = NO VOTE + NO MONEY EVER! Can I make that any clearer?

[gogeo]

Those same polls which virtually guaranteed a Carter second term. Polls this far out are meaningless, especially in regards to candidates reasonably described as anti-establishment.

I can explain it to you, but I can't help you understand it.

[WildHighlander57]

"The question is, which group would be larger? " <> Great numbers of Dems registered as Repubs so they could vote for Trump in the primaries. That's a big move. I highly doubt all those people are part of a conspiracy to then switch allegiances back, and vote for shrillary or bernie in the general. Their dissatisfaction with those two Dems is what moved them to crossover. People need the borders secured, fencejumpers and job stealers shipped out, manufacturing and jobs brought back, and debt brought down.

[Mariner]

I would not be surprised if there are a similar number of Cruz voters that will do the same.

And both would walk if the nomination was jiggered to Ryan.

[Norseman]

Oh, the GOP is listening all right. They’re listening to the people who under no circumstances will ever vote to put a buffoon like Trump in the White House, a group of voters who easily matches the group of you who “say” you won’t vote for Cruz even though many of you have often claimed in the past that you were once a supporter of his.

Well, for the record, most GOP voters who would never vote for Trump have never, ever, stated that they have supported him in the past. Big difference. We mean it; many Trump supporters don’t (even if you personally do mean it.)

[navymom1]

You are forgetting the model that the college scientist/professor put out that has NEVER been wrong. It has predicted the election without fail since it’s invention. Has Trump wiping the slate with Clinton.