Someone else said 50%, which would be 1/2. How do either of you people know this?
Both Ds and Rs have too much at stake right now to bother with crossover voting.
As if crossover voters care what either party think or are bothered with.
Trump pulls quite a lot of support from Democrats. They like him. Many of them are personality driven, and they like him. Many Democrats do not like Hillary and don't think Bernie has a chance. How many would rather vote for Trump?
I predict most of his votes beyond Cruz are Democrats. I also believe that perhaps 1/3 of his voters could be evangelicals, because they too sense he can win the general.
A lot of voters would prefer to be winners over being consistent.
Because he's pulling a bait and switch! It's an old salesman trick.
He STARTED out talking like a conservative saying everything we wanted to hear. Once his got his followerrs hooked, he started running as a democrat to get THEIR votes.
Proof? What is it he stands for NOW?
He's saying he's for eminent domain, funding Planned Parenthood, wants a single payer health care system, likes government subsidies, He's saying hell make deals with Democrats.
What's not for the democrat base to like????
“Someone else said 50%...... How do either of you people know this?”
I don’t know what the figure is, but it was over 1/3 of self-identified evangelicals per exit polls. Or maybe you’re suggesting evangelicals lied to the exit pollers? What’s to gain in that?
“As if crossover voters care what either party think ...”
NO, right now voters, crossover or otherwise, don’t care about the parties, but they do care about which candidate they will have to vote for come November. Rs aren’t going to vote for Bernie or Hillary now .. they may cross over in the later primary states when the field is winnowed (or nomination assured) but not now. Similarly, no Bernie or Hillary supporter is too concerned now whether it’s Cruz/Rubio/Trump/Carson or Kasich on the R side. They want their guy or gal on the D ticket.
No one can win a national election with only R or D voters. The eventual winner has to pull from the opposite party. So at some point the R candidate will have to appeal to D voters and the D candidate will have to appeal to R voters if s/he wants to win the general election. Neither party has such a majority of voters that the nominee can disregard middle of the road voters of the other party.
Cruz has lost a lot of voters who’d normally be in his camp, but his consistent statements are belied by the behavior of his campaign, behavior that he has endorsed consistently, with the exception of yesterday’s firing. I’d thought this wasn’t Cruz’s year, but that he had a future in national politics. After this campaign, I’m not so sure of that any more. He has seriously sullied his reputation. It’s never easy to regain peoples’ trust.
Yes, yes, yes,yes, your comments here are all spot on.