Free Republic 2016 Caucus Open Discussion Thread LXX

Free Republic ^ | 28 March 2016 | Windflier

[Windflier]

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Windy

[Windflier]

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[Lonely Bull]

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[DoughtyOne]

Results: 2016 03/28 on forum

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks again...

[dp0622]

i read your tagline. Can you imagine?

not one dem has made a peep about Bernie being a socialist.

none has said they’ll vote for trump instead of an avowed socialist.

only republicans eat their own so easily.

[Windflier]

You betcha, D.

[DoughtyOne]

Seems like it doesn’t it.

Of course we actually to try be intellectually honest with ourselves.

They more or less go for the party nominee and ta heck with anything else.

They voted for Obama under this premise. Yikes.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Its the republican partys’ half of the uniparty attacking Trump and it has some well known members these days.

[PA Engineer]

Thanks for the ping. BTTT.

[dp0622]

lol.

but you know what? Obama is closer to their average values than even McCain was.

This time, however, we cant settle for the lesser evil.

We need some GOOD to turn this country around.

I think Trump is it at this point. Cruz sadly sadly disappointed me.

[Lonely Bull]

Table 1: Free Republic Caucus 2016 threads, most recent 15 days

Date	Voting thread	Discussion thread	Results [on www.hotr.us]	Sequence no.
3/29	[link]	[link]	[available later]	70
3/28	[link]	[link]	[link]	69
3/27	[link]	[link]	[link]	68
3/26	[link]	[link]	[link]	67
3/25	[link]	[link]	[link]	66
3/24	[link]	[link]	[link]	65
3/23	[link]	[link]	[link]	64
3/22	[link]	[link]	[link]	63
3/21	[link]	[link]	[link]	62
3/20	[link]	[link]	[link]	61
3/19	[link]	[link]	[link]	60
3/18	[link]	[link]	[link]	59
3/17	[link]	[link]	[link]	58
3/16	[link]	[link]	[link]	57
3/15	[link]	[link]	[link]	56

Table 2: tables with older threads

Dates	Table	Sequence nos.
3/09 - 3/23	[link]	50-64
3/02 - 3/16	[link]	43-57
2/24 - 3/09	[link]	36-50
2/17 - 3/02	[link]	29-43
2/10 - 2/24	[link]	22-36
2/03 - 2/17	[link]	15-29
1/27 - 2/10	[link]	8-22
1/20 - 2/03	[link]	1-15

[Objective Scrutator]

Cruz is impressively stupid. I’m pretty sure he had well over 50% support on FR at one point (the 1/20 results, the earliest I could find, had him at 46%, a respectable showing), then he decided to backstab conservatives in favor of the GOP-e. Now his political career is going down in flames along with the careers of his newfound GOP-e buddies.

[DoughtyOne]

I seriously wanted Ted to be on the ticket last August to October. Then something started gnawing away at me, and I dropped that idea.

There was something about him I couldn’t get past.

[dp0622]

I know when it started for me.

I know what NYC is. Liberal. It’s also great to work in. I miss it.

and you don’t pit one state against another. That’s disgusting.

I’m on Staten Island, which is very conservative. If he doesn’t like my values, I guess he doesn’t want my vote.

[DoughtyOne]

His campaign said some really off-color things about New Hampshire. There weren’t any Christians there? I mean come on, you can’t dis states like that.

The New York values was a bad idea.

And then he heaped praise on the South that totally locked him out.

You need the whole nation. You can’t start making states angry.

There was even a bit of talk about Texas for a while there, calling the big cities liberal. Yikes, his home state.

You may think these things and discuss them in your meetings with staff, but don’t make that kind of talk public.

Scratch New York
Scratch New Hampshire
Scratch Some folks in Texas who didn’t like being labeled.

That seemed like really bad unforced errors.

[dp0622]

really bad!

and I got past the NY thing.

Then the shame mails, the carson thing, THEN his Chicago statement. Too much.

Does Trump fight dirty sometimes? Yeah, but he’s GOOD AT IT. lol. And never set himself up as a saint

Cruz was out of his league.

And I didn’t even know about the NH and TX comments.

[DoughtyOne]

Well, he was trying to explain why he wouldn’t do good in New Hampshire, lowering expectations. It just sounded bad. I can imagine if I was a Christian in New Hampshire what I would think.

I think his folks were also downplaying the importance of Texas, or the idea he’d mop the floor with Trump in Texas. It just sounded bad.

I agree with the ‘out of his league’ comment. He spent an awful lot of time talking about Trump. It almost seemed like he was a little kid following Trump around.

Didn’t sell well...

[Windflier]

Candidates and their teams may one day study the 2016 Cruz campaign in order to learn what NOT to do, if you intend to win.

[sargon]

Over the last several weeks, the FR caucus has gone from 2-1, to 3-1, to 4-1, and now it's hovering around 5-1 in favor of Trump over Cruz.

I wonder to what degree the FR community serves as a microcosm of the well-informed portion of the conservative electorate in general?