Posted on 04/14/2016 12:42:16 PM PDT by LesDowrey
If Ted Cruz were to win the GOP Nomination on the 2nd ballot or further down the line, he will have won the GOP nomination based on STOPPING Trump, not SUPPORTING Ted. That's not really a great way to win is it? Also, if he couldn't beat Trump at the ballot box, how will he beat Hillary?
Look nobody else but Trump is making everything a money issue, he bellows about it pretty much at every venue he's at, from interviews to radio tv etc. Just because Cruz and other political pundits aren't blasting Trup about it doesn't make it less so. I don't get my information from the mouths of either of these candidates unless it's quoting them....nor am I locked in emotionally with either. Further the last I read was this thread's titled "Serious Question for 'Cruz' Supporters" ....unless these are now only open for Trumps people now as well.
I so hope you are right.
agree with you.
Trump is anti conservative
The polls are state polls which is how electoral votes are assigned
You may want to alert dear leader.
He may not know how our system works.
No it just had to do with your whole delusional post thinking Cruz is still some kind of principled conservative when he’s backed by Wall St. (that’s why I posted about the Wall St. cronies coming in to save him, which you ignored) just like any other career politician in the corrupt DC establishment.
I get so sick of people being blind to all the corruption going on in Washington DC. I get sad at the loss of liberty that will happen if we continue to go down that corrupt statist path. The fix is in on both sides of the aisle, if we continue to allow the Uniparty to pick our candidates. Cruz has no problem allowing the Uniparty to use him for their goals of taking down Trump. That’s not anything I thought Cruz stood for as I was once a big fan of his.
Cruz is no different from any other establishment candidates like McCain, Romney, Jeb Bush, and even 0bama and Hillary Clinton when you look at the whole establishment and their statist globalist goals.
They all belong to one party, the Uniparty!
Trump is the only outsider with even at least a chance at blowing all that up and so many of you are so blind to see it.
CGato
No, these were all taken in the past month or so, so Jeb was out of the race.
Responses just go to show what a mindless circus all this has become.
I’m going to go do something else.
Incorrect. Ford lead Reagan and the convention did not go contested because Ford picked up the delegates he needed. Keep trying.
By the way, it was good that Ford took the fall in ‘76. The country was still trying to get over Nixon and Vietnam. The GOP was not in good standing.
Trump has been funding the status quo in Washington DC.
I guess Trump had a Road to Damascus experience when he met those two Corinthians.
Yea, it was good that Ford lost so we could get Jimmy Carter!
Nominee
Gerald Ford Ronald Reagan
Home state
Michigan California
Delegate count
1,121[1] 1,078[1]
States carried
26 24
Popular vote
5,529,899 4,760,222
Percentage
53.3% 45.9%
Republican presidential primary results, 1976.svg
Blue indicates a win by Ford, red a win by Reagan.
President before election
Gerald Ford
Republican presidential candidate-elect
Gerald Ford
The 1976 Republican presidential primaries were the selection process by which voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for President of the United States in the 1976 U.S. presidential election. Incumbent President Gerald Ford was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1976 Republican National Convention held from August 16 to August 19, 1976 in Kansas City, Missouri. 1976 was the first time that Republican primaries or caucuses were held in every state; the Democrats had previously done so in 1972.
Contents [hide]
1 Primary race
2 Candidates 2.1 Declined
3 Results 3.1 Statewide
3.2 Nationwide
3.3 Vice-presidential nomination
4 See also
5 References
Primary race[edit]
Ford, the incumbent President, faced a very strong primary challenge from Ronald Reagan. The former California Governor was popular among the GOP’s conservative wing. The race for the nomination was the last one by the Republicans not to have been decided by the start of the party convention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_1976
So, since 1976 we have never again had a contested convention because the guys mathematically eliminated have dropped out, not plotted convention fights.
Spoken by a supporter of the guy that can not break 38%.
Now if Trump was dragging down 68% you might be convincing.
Trump’ll go broke keeping that meme going.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mq5hrUDoYo
In ‘76 it didn’t go to a second vote. Your premise is invalid.
Exactly. The majority parasite vote - people receiving government money in one way or another - has to be overcome to beat the democrats. Cruz WILL NOT get enough crossover and independent votes to do it. Trump is already doing it.
And let’s not forget, Romney did better than BHO amongst independents but still lost the election.
Well, look at it this way: If a majority of REPUBLICANS can’t support Trump, how in the world does he win the general?
His supporters have convinced themselves that they can make that up with independents and Democrats..good luck
I actually see more division over Trump and Cruz than was here during the Romney campaign
Do you realize that a different group of people are voting in republican primaries than are being polled in general election polls?
That’s why they cite polls from early 1980. No comparison to today.
Of course, alot can happen between now and November but comparing 2016 electorate to the 1980 one is a poor comparison
I said overcome the parasite vote.
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