Posted on 04/26/2016 11:05:28 PM PDT by goldstategop
rump has won every state touching any of the states that voted on Tuesday, save Ohio. Rhode Island and Connecticut are hemmed in by New York and Massachusetts, which Trump won by 35 and 31 points, respectively. Maryland and Delaware are closer to Virginia, which Trump won by a narrower margin -- but that was back on (the original) Super Tuesday, when Marco Rubio was around to chew up 32 percent of the vote. Geographically, this is Trump territory. If you wanted to drive from Trump Tower to any point in the five states, the most it would take you is about six hours (assuming you got out of Manhattan quickly).
This is an area that's light on the sort of hard-right conservatives and evangelicals among whom Cruz has been more competitive. On average, 56 percent of Republicans in states for which we have exit poll data so far have identified themselves as evangelicals and 34 percent have identified themselves as "very conservative." We have preliminary exit polls from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut for Tuesday night, reported by CNN. In both Pennsylvania and Maryland less than half of the voters were evangelical and about 3-in-10 were very conservative. In Connecticut, only about a quarter were very conservative and a fifth evangelical. Not that it mattered; Trump won all of those groups anyway.
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Golly! Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, all hotbeds of meth-addled white trash (according to the grandees of the GOPe, at any rate). Who knew, right...? ;)
Are you getting him confused with CheaTed ?
"Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls."
Looking ahead, come back a couple of years from now and tell me if you're finding rest unto your soul or your pocketbook, eh?
Are you including the PA delegates from counties he won? I have him over 1000.
He will get 140 from CA, leaving 100. He gets most of that from WV and NJ.
Really? Do they “expect to do well” in the “east” states like AZ and NV (which Cruz lost? Or the “east” like AL, AR, FL, KY, MO, MS, NC, SC, TN, or VA? He lost every one of those states. Or OH or MI? Those aren’t “east”?
You do realize that St. Ted lost every single county in FL, OH, PA, NY, PA, RI, DE, MD, NY, and CT? Every county.
Maybe a refresher on geography would help.
If Cruz wasn’t expected to do well in the “liberal blue states” in the NE, how do you expect him to do well in the “liberal blue states” of CA, OR, and WA that are coming up. From what I’ve been hearing from Cruzers for the last week or so is that this is where he plans to win big, or is that just talk?
It is time for Cruz and Kasich to suspend and go home to serve the people of their states.
So if Cruz sees the light and drops out what happens to the Colorado, Wyoming delegates? Can anyone explain?
I really do love that movie. It hasn’t gotten a lot of attention. Some great lines.
Yeah, cheated his way to 64% of the vote in RI.... lols
Cruz is either incapable or unwilling to broaden his base. You can't win a general appealing only to the extreme right wing.
That is a really good question!
(This is my stock response when I don't know the answer.)
I've heard candidates in past elections "give" their delegates to the front runner, but I do not know what actually happens.
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