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Good discussion of where Trump won and why. Helpful to understanding his dominance as the GOP contest moves forward.
Posted on 02/24/2016 10:04:51 PM PST by goldstategop
Trump's strong performances have moved him from "lol what" to "jeez" very, very quickly. And while he's also had three straight wins in relatively friendly states, it's still not totally clear where the unfriendly states might be.
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Good discussion of where Trump won and why. Helpful to understanding his dominance as the GOP contest moves forward.
Thank you. Nice to have that all in one place.
I would like to add a resource to your thread.
This has delegate counts and other things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_2016
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(someone posted this on another thread)
as per your tagline, Cruz may have argued 9 times before the supreme court, BUT Cruz supported the TPP until the last minute — i called his office here in Texas 5 times before he finally felt the heat/saw the light.
So, what abut protecting US jobs does Cruz not get?
He needs to disavow the Cheap Labor Express crowd.
What happened in Feb 1980 to cause Carters big drop? A quick look and all I could find was Abscam.
I was freshly married at that time and had other.....um.....”things” on my mind
I think it was the ongoing Iranian American embassy staff hostage crisis. Carter looked weak and ineffective in the face of crisis. That’s when ABC’s Nightline started with Ted Koppel started, reporting the hostage crisis news each night. 444 days that ended on Jan 20, 1981.
Iowa is interesting. Rubio wins the capital and the two largest university towns, and Cruz wins the farmland. Trump wins the river towns on both sides. The river towns are traditionally heavily Democratic.
This breaks down just like everyone says. Rubio is GOPe, Cruz wins conservatives, and Trump is more popular with blue-collar voters.
I also found where that was when he started talking about the Olympic Boycott.
-PJ
The Iranian hostage crisis was THE NEWS of 1980 and the 1980 election season. It helped to wear Carter down in the polls, along with the bad economy of the time.
Cruz can not disavow cheap labor express. He is bought and paid for.
Despite Cruzs attacks on his partys donor class and establishment, the Texas senator Ted Cruz^s GOP campaign has received $37 million from just four donors.
The Wilks family of Cisco, Texas, New York hedge fund tycoon Bob Mercer, Texas energy investor Toby Neugebauer and Illinois manufacturing moguls Dick and Liz Uihlein.
And as you can see, it started a decent amount before the hostages in November 1979 (which would be near the end of 1979 on that graph, you can get precise dates at http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx Its one thing to be below 50% but above 40% on election day which means the race is a tossup (1976, 2004, 2012), another thing to be at or below 40%. (1968-LBJ was there election day that year, 1980-Carter was there election day '80, 1992-Bush I was there election day '92, 2008-Bush II was there election day '08), and in each of those cases, the incumbent party lost the White House. HHH, Carter, Bush I, and McCain were dead those years.
How do you explain Cruz NOT WINNING A SINGLE COUNTY in evangelical rich southern state of South Carolina? WHat happened to his vaunted ground game?
Yet at the end of the story, President Camacho put the right people in the right places and the country was back on an upward track again.
Thanks. What is a binding primary?
February 20, 1980
The president urges a boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
March 25, 1980
Carter loses the New York primary to Kennedy by 16%.
I, as you indicated, was otherwise distracted. Stationed overseas at a base that only got AFaRTS recordings of the news a week or more after broadcast, so why bother much. Working alternating shifts meant I missed the rebroadcast several evenings a week anyway. Four on - three off was my existence for years.
If you notice, in Nov 1979 at the start of the Iranian hostage crisis, support for Carter went up sharply as the American people rallied behind the president in a national crisis. But as time dragged on and Carter proved to be ineffective in handling the hostage crisis, his ratings fell again throughout 1980.
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