In 2 weeks, we get their opinion of him.
New York (95 Delegates) is not a winner take all state.
The South did not go for him..it was simply that this was an early phase and there were a lot of candidates, and some of these were winner take all states. So he “won” by default, simply because he had more votes individually with his 20-30% than those who represented the other 70-80%, who were divided.
Without the press loving him for his shock value, giving him free publicity and magnifying his marginal wins, Trump would never have made it this far.
Propaganda.
Cruz is a distant second yet we are flooded with articles about Cruz winning.
Hey Weekly Standard...so freaking what! You all get the gold star since you can do elementary math and geography. Why don’t you write something useful...like.say calculating the remaining delegates? Idiots.
This eerily sounds like the headlines for the Presidential aspirations of George Corley Wallace in ‘68.
Actually NY is a hybrid, It is Winner Take all by District and State if someone wins 50% of the vote.
You only get a delegates if you crack 20%.. but only if no one else cracks 50%.
Cruz will likely only get a handful or two at best of the NY Delegation... and they will likely be in a rare district where Trump didn’t quite get to 50%. Perhaps Cruz will win outright a district or two, but I doubt it.
Two weeks we find out. But I would say smart money is Trump walks away with 80-85 of the New York Delegates.
The parsing has reached Clintonian levels. So many explanation of how the consistent loser is winning. LOL!
What nonsense... Wait until the 26th and lets talk.
WI was a waterloo, but it wasn’t Trump’s.
WI was the most likely place Cruz could pull and upset, and the GOPe helped him get a big win... but where is he going next?
Cruz is most likely not going to win another state before May 10th... Maybe he can pull off an upset in Indiana a week before, but that’s being generous.
He’s basically got Montana, Nebraska and South Dakota left that he can count on for a win, the rest, He’s not likely to win at all.
Cruz basically has shown he is strong in the western caucus states, that’s it. WI did give him a win outside of that, but that was by and large thanks to a very strong and battle hardened GOPe machine in WI helping him. That’s not the place anywhere else left on the map.
Will revisit this thread after 4/26 and see how many states between now and then Cruz manages to win... Odds are zero, with an outside chance of 1.
Weekly Standard can not be believed. If I want to read fiction I would not have thought the Weekly Standard was a fiction magazine.
I encourage all of you to stay away from publications that peddle fiction.
So if Cruz had not arrogantly ignored the South because he took us for granted them he would be leading not in second.
Ted thinks he knows more than everyone else. Maybe he does. Time will tell
Let’s first face the simple reality that Trump supporters hate Cruz supporters, Cruz supporters hate Trump supporters, and the GOP establishment hates them both. It’s time to take this war where it’s belonged all the time: to Obama, Hillary and their fellow radicals on the Left.
Trump has won 20 states
Cruz has won 10 states
Rubio has won 2 states
Kasich has won 1 state
There are 17 states remaining and roughly 715 delegates depending on whose count you use.
The remaining states are below. I’ve put 3 stars next to those that are either naturals for Trump because they’re in his back yard or where he’s known to be leading in the polls. I’ve put 1 star next to naturals for Cruz. I would have given him Colorado, but Kasich is known to be leading in the polls there right now.
The following are the remaining states, according to Wikipedia.
Colorado
***New York
***Connecticut
***Delaware
***Maryland
***Pennsylvania
***Rhode Island
Indiana
*Nebraska
West Virginia
Oregon
Washington
***California
*Montana
***New Jersey
New Mexico
*South Dakota
One candidate has won every state that begins and ends with the letter “O”.
Vote Kasich!
Why would this statistic matter unless someone expects the South to secede between now and the November election?