Posted on 08/14/2015 5:10:19 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Trump has a commanding lead in the New Hampshire polls. The latest RealClearPolitics average has him at 24.5%, Bush at 11% and Kasich at 10%. And while the latest poll from The Boston Herald/Franklin Pierce University suggests that Trump's lead could be slipping - putting him at 18%, Bush at 13%, and Kasich at 12% - he's still the front-runner.
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Trump's team in New Hampshire says the response they've heard from people around the Granite State so far has been "phenomenal."
"I must have heard at least 15 times today that the thing people like about Trump is he says what we are all thinking but can't bear to say," said State Rep. Fred Doucette, the co-chairman of Trump's New Hampshire campaign. "He's a straight talker. He says what he thinks and thinks what he says and sticks to it and tells the truth. People are sick of the same old same old. They are sick of the politicians. We are ready for a businessman to run this country."
Doucette believes New Hampshire's famously independent spirit and independent voting track record fit well with what Trump is selling. "I think New Hampshire people are straight talkers and they like the truth and they like to hear straight talk," he said.
He's not alone. Last week, the Trump campaign's New Hampshire headquarters in Manchester was packed with people, filling two separate large rooms, who came to root for their guy during the first primary debate.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Who cares. It's a ghost-written vanity book.
Now what has Trump done?
First, you're watching a puppet show. We're not getting to choose anything.
Second, you're now a democrat? If you leave your elites out, we all lose. That's the message of history.
Your thinking faculties are not very sharp. Otherwise you’d see the fatal flaw/absurdity in what you just posted.
Ah, ok. Go to China where you can really be part of the process. Done with you.
They are all repetitive. Pick any candidate for 2 weeks and watch every speech you can. It will be the same sound bites speech after speech.
I meant SC.
Morning.
Coffee.
Methinks that you have confused the use of the term "elite" in the derogatory sense--i.e., the sort of phoney strutting types who Hans Christian Andersen burlesques as the Courtiers in the "Emperor's New Clothes," with those whom Jefferson & Adams discussed in their erudite correspondence, as a natural aristocracy.
The collection of big donors who call the shots for the RNC, are more like the former than the latter--their perception of the best interests of America colored by their perception of an immediate business advantage, which they are unwilling to risk by admitting that the "Emperor"--here the insane course of current Federal Policy--is intellectually naked.
The distinction is the difference between a focus on a multi-generational future & the sociopathic Keynes' remark that in the "long-run we are all dead."
All the candidates have a stump speech - they don’t write new ones for each campaign stop. I got sick of hearing Romney in 2012 - every speech was the same as the last one. They don’t have time to change their message. Anyway, Trump speaks off the cuff -you never know what he is going to say. Some are politically ignorant.
Date (all 2016) State
February
Monday, February 1 Iowa caucus
Tuesday, February 9 New Hampshire
Saturday, February 20 Nevada caucus (Dem)
South Carolina (GOP)
Tuesday, February 23 Nevada caucus (GOP)
Saturday, February 27 South Carolina (Dem)
March
Tuesday, March 1
(Super Tuesday) Alabama
Arkansas
Colorado caucuses
Georgia
Massachusetts
Minnesota caucuses
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
Saturday, March 5
Louisiana
Nebraska (Dem caucus)
Tuesday, March 8
Hawaii caucus (GOP)
Mississippi
Michigan
Sunday, March 13
Puerto Rico (GOP)
Tuesday, March 15
Ohio
Florida
Illinois
Missouri
Tuesday, March 22
Arizona
Utah
Saturday, March 26
Hawaii caucus (Dems)
April
Tuesday, April 5
Wisconsin
Tuesday, April 26
Connecticut
Delaware
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
May
Tuesday, May 3
Indiana
Tuesday, May 10
Nebraska (GOP primary)
West Virginia
Tuesday, May 17
Kentucky
Oregon
June
Sunday, June 5
Puerto Rico (Dem)
Tuesday, June 7
California
Montana
New Jersey
New Mexico
South Dakota
Tuesday, June 14
Washington, DC
States with no firm dates:
(Some states may be listed with tentative dates)
New York
North Dakota
Utah
Colorado
Idaho
Kansas
Maine
Washington
Wyoming
Read more at http://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2016-presidential-primary-schedule-calendar/#YB9wF7SDEhxRE2Lj.99
There you go again. Lands, you are boring and repetitive. Go away troll! Go hide under your bridge. Tell us, which charities has your candidate donated to, and how much? Inquiring minds want to know.
You are aware that most of the early states have a proportional breakdown of delegates. They are not winner take all.
If someone wins the first three contests, the delegate count is not the most important thing.
Trump has donated generously to Veterans groups and Children’s hospitals, one of which is St. Jude’s Cancer Research. He has also donated to Conservative politicians, as you know.
The GOP has changed the rules for this primary season. They could shape the outcome in favor of the GOPe.
One reason is that both national parties place some value in what the Republican Growth and Opportunity Project Report — the post-2012 autopsy — referred to as the “on-ramp.” Both the Democratic and Republican National Committees prefer a nomination process that builds slowly and incrementally. Having a group of smaller states positioned first provides a more equal footing for potential candidates as they make their cases to voters.
The alternative — starting the process in a larger state or a large group of states — is perceived as giving advantage to the best-funded candidate(s), who may or may not be the “best” candidate. The parties like the retail politics that smaller states can provide, rather than the ad war that might result in larger states.
The Republican National Committee is taking a similar approach for the states with primaries and caucuses that fall in the so-called “proportionality window,” defined as the first two weeks of March for 2016. The only difference is that the RNC allows the threshold for receiving any delegates to be set as high as 20 percent either statewide or in congressional districts.
The RNC also allows a state party to institute a threshold for a candidate to receive all of the at-large and bonus delegates. In those states that set such thresholds, if a candidate wins a majority of the vote statewide or in a congressional district, that candidate would be eligible to be allocated all of the delegates apportioned to that political unit.
After March 14, state parties in the Republican process have the freedom to set their delegate allocation rules as they see fit. States can institute a proportional rule, a winner-take-all rule, or some hybrid. The differences between proportional and hybrid plans are typically so subtle that they do not affect the delegate count.
If states with contests after March 14 adopt a winner-take-all rule, that could create a de facto nominee sooner. However, in 2012, there was no such rush to winner-take-all rules among states with contests after the proportionality window.
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