Moe is having a wet dream
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.
It’s called America my FRiend.
Dream BIG.
You missed the part where Cruz and DT tied 18 each for LA delegates.
“Everyone knows” Cruz will lose to Hillary in the general, just as they knew Reagan would lose to Carter in 1980.
Same exact prediction.
Super Sunday was horrid to Cruz. 3rd place in puerto Rico. Yieks!
Yes, but Trump still made himself a little trophy for his trophy room.
I am going to remember this post seeing you as guaranteeing a Trump victory.
Did you know today in Puerto Rico, Trump actually beat Cruz for hispanic voters???
Cruz voted against funding to clean up Flint MI ‘s water.
Well, Puerto Ricans are very different than Mexicans, Central Americans and Cubans. Plus, PR is not able to vote in the general election, but you knew that.
Enjoy it now.
Interesting take on FL ...
Dead heat means both Trump and Cruz won it.
So that's:
Cruz- Kansas, Maine, Louisiana
Trump-Kentucky, Louisiana
Yaye! Go Cruz!
I don’t know why people think it’s good for the SCOTUS to decide so many things. Lately it seems many issues that should be decided by the People at the state level, are being judicially proclaimed.
There is a problem with how they allocate under the rules in Louisiana. It’s supposed to be 1/1/1, but with Rubio not making 20% there, Louisiana first tried to make those delegates unbound.
The problem with that is that the unbound delegates (outside of the 3 apportioned to the state chair etc,) I believe are also against RNC rules.
who know what happens when this mess gets straightened out.
since this is all “unofficial”, seems doesn’t mean much at all.
I worked on both of Reagan’s winning presidential campaigns, I knew Reagan, and believe me, Teddy is NO Ronald Reagan!
I heard Jebbie is going to endorse Marco in FL , which will keep him in the race and will help Trump.
Cruz does do better in caucuses... there are only 2 left, I think.
They speak Russian. We speak Spanish and some English.
The CDs where you have Trump 2-1, went Trump - Cruz - Rubio 1 -1 - 1. That is what the article is talking about. Even Green Papers is confused a bit and is seeking clarification.
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