Posted on 03/02/2016 11:34:09 PM PST by OneVike
Finally, after a lot of searching and a lot of complicated charts that weren’t exactly correct it appears that the Texas Delegates ended up totaling 115 for Cruz and 40 for Trump. If my math is correct that means that Super Tuesday was essentially a tie with a difference between Cruz and Trump of only 14 delegates. So while Trump racked up a bunch of states Cruz racked up a bunch of delegates. Which strategy is smarter? For Cruz it seems that this worked out pretty well especially when the polls had Trump winning both Oklahoma and Alaska.
Now that Carson is out of the race and Rubio is on his last legs and his numbers will in all likelihood begin to fall precipitously, Cruz will have a more open field in which to operate. The question is will it translate to votes which ultimately translates to delegates?
The current delegate count with the new Texas figures included would seem to be Trump at 321 and Cruz at 242 or a difference of 79 delegates. Over the next two weeks there are over 700 delegates at stake which tells us that this is still anybody’s race. The problem for Trump is that as the race narrows the conservative vote which has been split among Carson, Rubio and Cruz is going to begin tilting more toward Cruz.
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I don’t think republican primaries feature super delegates.
You call out posters based on their join date,
You don't write in complete sentences,
And you curse at them.
That is not very nice. I hope you will do better.
It appears that the last poll in Kalifornia was about 2 months ago, and it showed Trump and Cruz tied within the MOE (Cruz ahead by 2%). Kalifornia is June 7, so a lot more will happen before then.
1. Carson didn’t “drop out”. Campaign suspended — same as Jeb. Either could re-appear at any time.
2. “vicious attack ads” by TRUMP? OMG. Is Trump even doing ads? I haven’t seen one. He doesn’t need to because the MSM is providing free air time. Even if he did ads, and they were “vicious”, they’d be truthful as opposed to Cruz’ and Rubio’s bat-shit crazy lying ads.
The media understand the delegate process but it doesn’t lend itself to soundbites immediately after the polls close. The details of the process is not part of the bread and circus atmosphere they promote.
It’ll be moot when Rubio and Cruz are declared ineligible. Funny thing: Most Americans prefer to have an American as President. Go figure.
I believe Superdelegates are only part of the Democrat Primary. Many states, Texas one of them, allocate some of the delegates based on who wins the congressional district votes in the state. In Texas, first place in each congressional district wins two delegates and second place gets one delegate. These are regular delegates, not Superdelegates, which are party hacks with no required allegiance.
I don’t know where Rubio’s votes came from. My understanding was that a candidate needed to pass the 20% threshold to get any Texas delegates and Rubio did not pass that threshold.
the problem is that in most states, if not all, each party makes their own rules.
Many of the available polls in places like Alaska and Oklahoma were so old as to be useless.
And there you go... depend on wiki and you need to pedal your bicycle much much faster.
Ted was expected to win his state which happens to be a big delegate state.
If Ted were to repeat this in California, then I’d say you have a point.
For someone who is hated by everyone in his party, Cruz being in second place is a miracle... As yogi bera might have spoken, nobody joins the cruz tent, it’s too crowded.
I will support any who defy the uniparty. I will write in cruz if it is rubio.
Ted can be president of Texas when it secedes.
Hypocrites.
Suddenly so-called "conservatives" will vote for an Obama-praising, big-government populist who has already said everything is negotiable, including the main issue (immigration) that has drawn Trump so much support.
Hypocrites.
Each state has three automatic delegates. They are the RNC members and the state chair that also were voted on in their states. The automatic delegates’ votes can be allocated by state party rules the same as regular delegates; that’s why they are not superdelegates.
Speaking of infidels, wouldn’t Trump be considered one since he claims he has had nothing for which to ask the LORD forgiveness, even though he claims to be a Christian? Rather than bashing the FReepers who support an openly God-fearing man in Ted Cruz, perhaps after you’ve reflected on your online persona and it’s appearance to someone seeking truth, you could spend some time preaching the Word to Mr. Trump.
Otherwise, you’re doing the internet equivalent of having a cross, Christian fish, and “rapture ready” bumper sticker on your car while driving around swearing and flicking off everyone else on the road. Something to think about.
So you are saying Trump is this cycles electable candidate. Just like McCain and Romney.
...it ain't over till it's over.
Long way to go, 1,777 available delegates.
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