Posted on 04/17/2016 7:02:53 PM PDT by markomalley
More than six in 10 Republican voters believe that, if no GOP presidential candidate wins a majority of delegates before the convention, the one with the most votes should be the party's nominee, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
That's compared with 33 percent of Republicans who say the nominee instead should be the candidate whom convention delegates think would be the party's best standard-bearer.
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Or whoever was prophesized by his daddy
62% of Republicans would have preferred Al Gore as President?
I really don’t see it.
You just might be obsessed with homosexuality.
If they decide to have a contested convention, when the voters have clearly showing who they prefer by a huge margin, its the end of the Republican party as any sort of power for a generation or more.
The republican brand is dying, other than the re-election of a wartime president they have not won the popular vote for president in 28 years... and even then they only won by less than 2.5%!
They finally have a candidate that is clearly attracting new voters and growing the republican party and they are just bound and determined to fight it.
The Republican Party has been on a slow death spiral for nearly 3 decades, if they turn their back on Trump should he go into the convention with millions more votes and just shy of the 1237, and they wind up giving the nomination to someone else, yes they can do that, but if they do do that... the Republican party will be decimated up and down the ballot in the fall and have zero chance at any major wins for at least 2 decades.
Time will tell.
The first thing wrong with the republican primaries is allowing open primaries.
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OHhhhhhhhhhhh .... And guess who want allow the change from open primaries .......... YOU GUESSED IT >>> The GOPe.
Just under the 63% of Republican voters who have so far voted for someone other than Trump.
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If Trump gets this majority, aka, the most votes, So-be-it... he has my vote, and I hope he has yours. But, Trump may not be the first to get over 1236.
If the 1236 don’t reflect voter count, they can KMA. I believe these delegates have a responsibility to the voters. If no regard to the voter, no regard to the party.
The voter says... today I self identify as a republican. I'm pro abortion, I'm a socialist who wants single payer healthcare, I want all my college tuition refunded to me, and I want our country to pay reparations for slavery injustice.... but TODAY I self identify as a republican... I'm just dying to vote for King Trumpy. I'm one of those new people Trumpy is bringing to the party.... :)
Right???
Isn’t it amazing how people always want to change the rules while the process is already in play?
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62% don’t care about your rules. And if it was Trump that had the fewer votes, the GOPe would be more concerned about the most votes. They’re no better than democrats.
Well, you just lost any credibility by that utterly stupid comment....
My statement is exactly right. Trump is stealing the party and he’s bragging about all of the non republicans he’s bringing into the party to do it.
Yep, they certainly do. It's in the rules. Typically, but not always, limited to the first round vote.
These "delegates" are mostly ordinary folk, just like little you and little me. They got off their butts, went to a caucus of other folks that also got off their duff that day, and chose who would represent the voter... for the first round (typically). THey reached into their OWN pockets for the $3000 or $4000 of hard-earned money to travel and stay in Cleveland, and vote, for their voters back home, for the first vote... and thereafter, vote their conscience.
Good luck!
Poor Tead. He can’t win anything legitimately.
The past and GOP have already blown up the party.
You blame Trump, yet you give a pass to the real hacks who have blown
up the party. Hacks like Bonhior, Ryan, McConnell etc.
It is those hacks and the ones before them who created the opportunity
for Trump. you are more concerned about stopping Trump than you
are about stopping Obama. Do you live off the GOV tit?
Your statement of:
“Letting people tell you what primary they want to vote in.”
Could be re-written as:
“Letting people vote for whomever they may please”.
We tend to vote for “people”, here, not for “parties”.
You know... you should have the right to vote for whoever you want on the 1st Tuesday of November. Picking a party nominee is a different thing.
” ..... and thereafter, vote their conscience. “
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Which should be the will of the voters.
Yeah, .... just ordinary folks ... yada ... yada .. yada.
It doesn’t matter what your rules are. 62% disagree and many of them will vote or not vote on election day.
No, they probably wanted neither.
How so?
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