Posted on 03/02/2016 6:51:24 AM PST by rwilson99
There have been four closed elections: the Iowa caucus, the Nevada caucus, and Super Tuesday’s Oklahoma primary and Alaska caucus. Ted Cruz won three of those four closed elections.
So here’s where it potentially gets interesting. Although the media are looking forward to March 15, this Saturday (March 5) there are four Republican primaries/caucuses: Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Maine. All are closed.
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exactly
Unless it’s changed since ‘88, the IA caucuses are not closed; it’s the same as an open primary. Just decide when you enter the building which caucus you want to attend.
Yes
And Fox will claim Rubio is on a meteoric rise
If it were Bush in Trumps place they would all be crowing it’s over
head to head polls have Cruz beating Hitlery.
Rubio loses Florida and drops out...
Cruz wins the closed primaries going forward and becomes the compromise candidate.
Trump loses in the fall when his Democrats decide to feel good about voting in the first woman President.
Yet, he score better in head-to-heads with the Democrat. I am not seeing him as the best ‘candidate’ in terms of skills, but he is doing better against the opposition party at this moment. He’s not too unlikable, or he wouldn’t have those numbers.
“Clearly those Dems jumping open primaries believe that Trump is way more liberal than the most recent positions that he is taking.’
mmmhmmm. “Liberal issues” like a wall and immigration under control.
Turns out its Trump that can't beat Hillary.
Do you have any polls that say you’re right for these states? I know I’ve seen EKU KY polls that don’t support Kentucky, and I also seem to remember something similar for Maine.....
Yea, well to me that’s like Mitt winning Utah. I don’t ignore it though. Congratulations. I still don’t like the guy and never will
So you’re saying, regardless of Cruz being the ‘compromise candidate’, that Trump wins the R nomination. Then goes on to lose the general?
Exactly.
I used to support Cruz and switched. I know Trump is Trump. Neither Dem nor Pub really.
Do we want to work? Do we want our children to work? To have a country?
It’s really simple for me.
For the 1st time, I watched a bit of Cruz last night. Chez Boots watched. We were shocked at the half truths and outright lies. From Cruz’s own mouth. I was downright disgusted.
People who complain about Trump have no room to complain. Not anymore.
I do believe that the elite will try to stop him, by any means necessary. Trillions of dollars are at stake to globalize. Trillions.
An old friend has told us that (and he ought to know) that a major Japanese auto maker is/has opened a new plant. Huge. There are only two humans working there.
I have also learned that robots are being developed that will be capable of doing....for example...yard work. Routine things that can be programmed.
The elite are going to have to kill off a whole lot of us.
You are correct on Iowa... it is an open state.
So you are saying that Cruz couldn’t have won Texas without the democrats?
There’s support for that position. For example, in the Democrat stronghold of Travis county (Austin), Cruz easily won, followed closely by Rubio, with Trump a distant third.
And in Dallas county, where the county offices are in solid Democrat control (except for the DA’s office where the corrupt democrat was upset) Cruz again had an easy win, but Trump did edge Rubio for second.
Caucus states are suspect. For example, how many purple shirted goons were present to take names in Nevada? I daresay a caucus vote is not necessarily predictive of the secret ballot general election. And that is why I am adamantly opposed to having electronic voting machines spit out a “receipt” showing how an individual voted. Too much chance for a union goon to demand the receipt in order to work and fat chance for your continued employment prospects if that vote is “wrong.”
Another thing I heard yesterday is sHrillary screeching about how GM workers had donated “millions” to her campaign. From the unions, sure, I can believe it; from the rank and file? No way.
How does anyone know for a fact it’s Dems jumping ship
How do they not know it’s more motivated GOP OR VOTERS IN GENERAL FOR TRUMP
OR EVEN CRUZ
ANSWER IS THEY DON’T
It’s a tool to dampen Trumps victories
How dense are you to think head-to-head polls mean anything this far out?
The GOPe will not let Cruz be the nominee, He is just a tool of the GOPe to get to a brokered convention. Cruz will go down in history as the candidate who sold out the conservatives on trade agreements, Iran nuclear deal, the 2104 primaries including Mississippi, and drove a stake in the effort to take control of the party from the GOPe and return it to the people.
As I posted before, Cruz would not carry 5 states.
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