Posted on 04/23/2016 9:01:58 PM PDT by Lonely Bull
DO NOT VOTE ON THIS THREAD.
This is the nightly DISCUSSION thread for the ongoing 2016 Free Republic Caucus. Per caucus rules, no comments are allowed on the caucus thread itself - hence this open chat thread.
If you'd like to vote in the caucus, please look in the sidebar for the link, or check downthread here.
Thanks, and let 'er rip!
Windy
Free Republic Caucus 2016 04/24 (4 more days) (The final thread will be the one labeled "04/28.")
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Today's voting thread: Free Republic Caucus 2016 04/24 (4 more days)
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Hope you're having a good night.
Results: 2016 04/23 on the forum
Oops:
Thank you for the link Lonely Bull.
| Date | Voting thread | Discussion thread | Results [on www.hotr.us] | Sequence no. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4/24 | [link] | [link] | [available later] | 96 |
| 4/23 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 95 |
| 4/22 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 94 |
| 4/21 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 93 |
| 4/20 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 92 |
| 4/19 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 91 |
| 4/18 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 90 |
| 4/17 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 89 |
| 4/16 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 88 |
| 4/15 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 87 |
| 4/14 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 86 |
| 4/13 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 85 |
| 4/12 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 84 |
| 4/11 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 83 |
| 4/10 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 82 |
| Dates | Table | Sequence nos. |
|---|---|---|
| 4/06 - 4/20 | [link] | 78-92 |
| 3/30 - 4/13 | [link] | 71-85 |
| 3/23 - 4/06 | [link] | 64-78 |
| 3/16 - 3/30 | [link] | 57-71 |
| 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 |
LOL! That ol’ owl has Trump Hair.
-JT
It’s a cute image I found...just could not resist :-)
You’re welcome, Onyx. Thank you for the kind appreciation! It was our pleasure.
Thank you. I appreciate the thank you and the comments.
I’m sure each of us do, WindFlier, Lonely Bull, and myself.
Take care.
We’ll have to do it again sometime.
Oh, my eyes!!!
PLEASE tell me that picture is photoshopped.....
(If not, Hill should be painted gray and have a hull number, ‘cause I’ve only seen a bigger fantail during carrier landings.)
I completely agree. The caucus threads have been the most interesting of each day since the day they started. Cruz hired experts at manipulating social media and that may be why when the FR Caucus began it seemed as though people who were supporting Trump were in the extreme minority. It quickly became evident that the numbers were actually fairly even.
The Cruz campaign slowly but steadily alienated many people here. But this would not have been very evident from the threads and activity. Cruz people started becoming outnumbered but their level of enthusiasm and dedication continued to be very strong and the number of threads critical of Trump continued to outnumber pro-Trump threads.
At this point with Trump the presumptive nominee, Cruz people are far outnumbered here, but it will still be difficult to gauge the actual numbers without the Caucus.
Each of you has performed a great service. I believe that you played a very important role in thwarting an organized effort to subvert the Free Republic. Your effort prevented Cruz operatives from using the Free Republic from being used as a tool to divide conservatives here. You may have even saved the community. There still is a small faction who do their best to stir up hate and discontent, but for the most part your efforts and the difficult decisions that have had to be made by the moderators have helped keep this community together. All of us owe you a great deal.
Vote Trump
lol j/k, I’ve been following these threads for months and just signed up. I won’t be voting in the few days left, but wanted to say thanks to you, DoughtyOne, Windflier, and everyone else who helped out with these threads :)
Or Orson Wells.
It's photoshopped...but it's funny :-)
She looks little better in real life.
But I have to say, it was time.
Ted Cruz is seeking to force a contested GOP convention and thereby irreparably splinter the party, were he to deny Trump the nomination.
Why? Because he's willing to sacrifice both the party and the country on the altar of his own egotism and narcissism, apparently.
To quote Gandalf: "He who breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
The "contested convention" crowd must be stopped at all costs.
Vote Trump
You’ve made some excellent points here!
Just imagine how out of control the cruz people would be if not for the daily caucus numbers to point at to dispute the level of support they claim their candidate has.
For the life of me, I can’t understand how they still think he can win a general election when he can’t even beat Trump here, never mind the actual primary elections.
Obviously, the daily FR Caucus was Doughty’s brain child, so the bulk of our thanks to to him. Bull and I were more or less his assistants over the last few months - me with the discussion thread, and Bull with his results chart.
I don’t think I ever thought we were saving the forum, but I’ll grant that the daily results of the voting showed conclusively that a strong majority of people in this community support Trump over Cruz. No matter how loud and ubiquitous the Cruz crowd seemed to be, the numbers told a different story.
The caucus has turned into a valuable, documented study of the voting preference of what is arguably the staunchest conservative community in the country.
Many thanks to Doughty for conducting the caucus, and for compiling the record of the daily vote totals. It’s become a valuable body of information.
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