Posted on 03/06/2016 2:37:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Louisiana state GOP announced the current estimated delegate breakdown: Ted Cruz and Donald Trump both get 18, Marco Rubio gets 5. How is this possible, when Trump got more votes? Well, the popular vote count statewide was effectively a two-man race, as only Trump and Cruz got above 20%. Those at-large delegates (28 total) went 12 for Trump, 11 for Cruz, 5 unbound. But! Louisiana has 6 Congressional Districts, and each gets 3 delegates (18 total). In five of those districts the state GOP is unofficially calling it as Cruz, Rubio, and Trump all getting 1 delegate... except in LA-05, where Cruz gets 2 and Trump gets 1. Thus, the current score is 18-18, with 5 for Rubio and the other 5 officially unaffiliated*.
All of this, by the way, will be the subject of much vigorous debate and discussion in Louisiana political circles over the next week, which probably means that there's going to be a brawl at the upcoming state convention.
Still: if you thought that Donald Trump's awful, no-good night was at least over for him, rest assured: it's not. The universe itself conspires to come back to the tableau* of his humiliation and dump one last small, yet stinking, dollop of embarrassment on his head. As it stands now, the guy didn't even win the delegate count in Louisiana. He could only manage to tie with Ted Cruz, a man who Trump just recently described as "L-I-E-N." Perhaps he meant "lion?" It's so hard to tell, with that particular dude.
Moe Lane
PS: If you were ever wondering what good a professional campaign organization can do for a candidate, it's this: it can take a state where the polls had a candidate down by 15 points on Election Day, and turn it into a state where the candidate tied for first in the delegate count. And perfectly ethically, too! The rules are the rules, and they're perfectly reasonable ones; it's nobody's fault except Trump and his campaign's if they didn't actually read them, and Ted Cruz's people did. Welcome to the big leagues...
*The Republican party doesn't really use super-delegates to the override-the-will-of-the-voters extent that the Democrats do, but the party has a few.
**Well, you know. Louisiana. French. It seemed like a good word to use, under the circumstances.
Were YOU in Chicago watching me?
Cruz isn't ANYTHING at all like Reagan on any way, other that both were/are male, breathe, eat, were/are married, and ran/run under the GOP banner.
Rush is infallible now? LOL
every lawyer ever.
it is akin to a prosecutor saying the defendant is free to confess regardless of innocence.
Tied? Trump won by 11,000 votesPlease go back and review the excuses made by the Trump fans when Trump lost in Iowa (when the polls all predicted him winning). Then, the only thing that mattered was the delegate count.
Rubio isn’t a threat. Trump has to win 50% + 1 of the delegates to sow up the nomination so any time that anyone other than Trump wins delegates that is a net benefit to Cruz.
Cruzers are getting full of themselves again. Don’t analysis very well for the up coming states. It will be short lived joy.
Reagan was one of a kind, but Cruz is the closest thing we've had since the Gipper himself.
No HE’S NOT!!!!
Pelican State ping
A person’s net worth is not reflected in a tax return.
Honestly, I often think we need Trump and Cruz united or Hillary will win.
Cruz is more the principled conservative with ordered liberty and Trump is more the nationalist.
The universe told us all we need to know at #boogergate
We’re on it for Tuesday.
If I could at least find the results by CD, perhaps I could figure it out. I know there is a threshold you have to meet to get delegates in a CD.
You did that? Cool.
Anytime somebody tells you "all you need to know is..", the first thing you need to do is start figuring out what it is they don't want you to know.
is NOT really worth 10 billion dollars are in there—
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Your worth isn’t in your tax return either so how is Trumps?
Exactly. Many many reasons Cruz will lose. Too stiff comes first.
Because everything you read on Twitter is true. /sarc
Actually, if you have the results from CD 6, who got what percent of the vote there. I may be able to figure out the rounding rule used.
I know that, never said otherwise. You might want to chill a little.
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