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Rove predicts multi-ballot convention for GOP
Politico ^ | 1/7/16 | Nick Gass

Posted on 01/07/2016 11:06:39 AM PST by jimbo123

For the first time in 68 years, the Republican Party will need more than one ballot to pick its nominee this summer in Cleveland, Karl Rove predicted in his annual list of prognostications.

"Delegates will be fractured-with many legally bound, for at least one ballot, to support the winner of their state or district-and at least two ballots will be required," he wrote in The Wall Street Journal.

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Should Donald Trump, the current leader in most statewide and national polling, become the party's pick, Rove predicted that the Democrats would maintain control of the White House for another four years and would also retake control of the Senate. The GOP's overall share of seats in the House would also take a tumble, he added.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: amnestypimps; brokeredconvention; chamberofamnesty; gope; gopestablishment; liberalagenda; rinos; rinos4jeb; rnc; rovestupid; thefixisin; tokyorove
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Multi-ballot?

If there are two ballots they will both have a Trump majority.

Trump is walking away the leader, nobody is touching him.

It is true that Iowa may be won by Ted Cruz, I love him, but when was the last time the Iowa picked the winner? One state with a tiny population of evangelicals does not a nation wide election make. The majority of people in this country are not evangelicals and they are not rural. New York loves Trump, even many of the liberals.

This election is Trumps to lose.

21 posted on 01/07/2016 11:30:38 AM PST by JAKraig (my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: jimbo123

There is no fool like a fat old fool.


22 posted on 01/07/2016 11:30:55 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: jimbo123

Karl Rove predicts..... There is a non-starter if I ever saw one.

No one but Trump will win the minimum 8 primaries needed to get nominated.


23 posted on 01/07/2016 11:31:21 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Exactly. Greenberg would not have given Right to Rise $10 million dollars to Right to Rise today unless Rove guaranteed him a brokered convention that will install Jeb as the nominee.

And that’s also why Jeb is loaning money to his own campaign now to stay in until the end now that the convention fix is in. Jeb’s been cut off by his hard money donors, but he’s agreed to spend his own money from now on given Rove’s assurances on the brokered convention.


24 posted on 01/07/2016 11:32:03 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

I pray you are wrong.

If you’re right the area outside that convention hall is going to make Chicago ‘68 look like a Sunday picnic.


25 posted on 01/07/2016 11:38:12 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: jimbo123

Can anyone remember the last time Rove was right?


26 posted on 01/07/2016 11:42:06 AM PST by VerySadAmerican
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To: jimbo123

Hey Yeb, is that a turtle in your pocket...
or are you just SMALL.


27 posted on 01/07/2016 11:43:32 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

I’m not convinced Jeb is out of the game. I remember when McCain was out of the game and flat broke.


28 posted on 01/07/2016 11:44:07 AM PST by VerySadAmerican
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To: jimbo123

True statements aren’t Estab’s strategy now. It’s statements of any kind to sway voters away from Trump.


29 posted on 01/07/2016 11:45:08 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: Buckeye McFrog
If you’re right the area outside that convention hall is going to make Chicago ‘68 look like a Sunday picnic.

They are just finishing up rebuilding Cleveland. Please don't burn it down again.

30 posted on 01/07/2016 11:45:12 AM PST by NeoCaveman (Oil: natural, organic, and gluten free)
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To: Lee'sGhost
WHAT YOU SAID.........AGREE. Trump is no fool and is getting prepared, probably 6 steps ahead of them.

A businessman always has plan A & Plan B.....Trump has his "what if" plans ready.

31 posted on 01/07/2016 11:50:52 AM PST by annieokie
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To: Zhang Fei

And that Trump would be gone in November....


32 posted on 01/07/2016 11:50:55 AM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: jimbo123

Karl “canned ham” Rove is America’s wishful thinking pundit.


33 posted on 01/07/2016 11:54:05 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Leaning Right
If the GOP hierarchy orchestrates this, and undermines the will of the voters, they will have essentially done what they are accusing Trump of doing - ruining the Republican party and throwing away any chance of winning the Presidency. To some extent these people are not much different than fight promoters who orchestrate who gets the big fight, and who profits from the event. Might as well have Don King run the GOPe.
34 posted on 01/07/2016 12:13:46 PM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: HarleyLady27

LOL Love It!


35 posted on 01/07/2016 12:31:34 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: VerySadAmerican

I remember when McCain was out of the game and flat broke.

zactley


36 posted on 01/07/2016 12:31:58 PM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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To: annieokie

And probably a Plan C and a Plan D. He is like Patton on a rampage. Love his punch!


37 posted on 01/07/2016 12:34:22 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: jimbo123

And I predict multi chins for Rove


38 posted on 01/07/2016 12:35:30 PM PST by albie
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To: jimbo123

Oh, ok Karl, then I’ll change and vote for Jeb.

Wow, I already feel so much better.

Come on everybody, STAND ON YOUR TIPPY TOES FOR JEB!!


39 posted on 01/07/2016 12:40:02 PM PST by Gator113 (Happy New Year!)
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To: jimbo123

You mean the same Karl Rove who said on Election Night 2012 Ohio and Florida were states Romney could win?

You mean that Karl Rove? Yeah sure, he has a good track record of getting his candidate elected.

How’s Jeb by the way, doing in the polls now?


40 posted on 01/07/2016 12:56:15 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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