Posted on 03/02/2016 1:06:33 AM PST by goldstategop
But Trump’s relative weakness doesn’t mean he’s vulnerable. While Trump isn’t as strong as previous front-runners, his coalition has a similar shape. Take Virginia, a varied state where Trump won with 34.7 percent of the vote. The Washington D.C. suburbs aside, Trump won every region of the state, from exurban Northern Virginia and the central region of the state, to the vote-rich, eastern Tidewater and the Richmond metropolitan area.
More important than that, however, is the ideological and socio-economic shape of his coalition. Trump won “very conservative” and “somewhat conservative” voters in Virginia, and placed second with self-described Republican moderates. He won 39 percent of white evangelical Christians and 42 percent of people with military service. He won a whopping 47 percent of Virginia Republicans without a college degree, and most voters making less than $50,000 a year.
This pattern plays out everywhere. Trump dominates in the middle and downscale sections of the electorate, among Republicans who are “somewhat conservative,” and even those who identify as highly ideological. And while he has a difficult time winning new voters—few who decided in the past week broke to Trump—he won support early and held it in the face of attacks and pushback.
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Just read that somewhere that Cruz took Alaska...is this true?
Argh...just want this over with.... beat Hillary and let’s get on with our lives...
Cruz won AK. Still, lots of contests ahead this month before it slows down.
Unlike the niche-candidate Cruz, Trump is the full-spectrum, broad-based candidate.
Lots of crossover votes even ran out of ballots.
Do you know what being “Mississippi ed “. Means?
It was done again in Alaska from what the threads say!
For those who can't read this one without opening a vein, there's plenty of wishful thinking nuttery floating around FR topics about the Super Tuesday results and turnout.
You agree with:
“Put simply, he [Donald Trump] is a toxic figure with deep unfavorables among large swaths of the American electorate. And while he could appeal to disaffected white voters—blue-collar Democrats and alienated Republicans—there’s no guarantee he could do this without sparking a backlash among blacks, Latinos, Asian Americans, and a whole host of other groups offended and repulsed by Trump’s sexism, racism, and vulgarity. Nor is there evidence he could overcome the likely deluge of attacks on his dealings and business record, especially if high-profile Republican politicians begin to disavow him in the face of his nomination.
Anyone who wins a major party nomination can win the presidency. That doesn’t mean it’s likely. Trump is on the path to success in the GOP. But he’s still a long way from success with the entire American people.”
Thanks for the clarification.
He has a point: Trump has high negatives, is detested by the GOP establishment and is extremely controversial.
He defies the usual things about a politician, traits that may make him acceptable to Republicans, has yet to gain him acceptance among the American people.
There is truth to what Bouie says about Trump and we don’t like what liberals have to say about our front-runner, nevertheless this is what a lot of people think about Trump.
If he wants to become President, he needs to change the country’s perception of him and they are large shoes to fill. No time like the present to get to it.
Cruz won AK, TX, OK.....but he acted like HE had swept Super Tuesday.
This was Cruz territory-—conservative country-—he had launched a huge bid for southern evangelicals.
But they rejected Cruz in favor of Trump on Super Tuesday and in SC.
So if the wise and God-inspired evangelicals didn’t want Cruz....why would the rest of America want him?
Ed
NRSC scamming Trump supporters while giving donations to Ted Cruz
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3403999/posts
and
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3403920/posts
Supporting Cruz is a win for the democrats.
Trump wins Eastern states, but Cruz barely registers there....Cruz CAN NOT WIN anything but his small base of saturated voters like Texas.
Vt....Trump 33%....Ted not even in the top 3
VA...Trump 33%.......Ted 17%
Mass...Trump 49%........Ted....Not in the top 3
We need Trump to knock over the money changers tables and clean out the filth. There will be plenty of time for lesser men - but still good men like Cruz to play a part. Cruz needs to back off, support Trump and wait his turn.
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