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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Mr. Haney has no chance to ever be the first natural born Canadian President of the United States. It’s that simple. Happy whistling past the grave yard of unsuccessful candidacies will not change reality.
and Cruz is going to lose in Texas.....oooooops
Are Ted Cruz supporters clutching at straws?
California is the new Texas, because Cruz something or other. Take that Trump....insert retarded Cruzberger syndrome nickname here. These Cruz people really are ceiling fan watchers.
If so called “conservatives” can now love New York, I don’t see any reason we can’t love California.
I’d rather be a “ceiling fan watcher” than a sewer dweller, like you.
Right he didn’t break 20% of the vote in Texas, however, Rube got his 3 Texas delegates because he broke the 20% threshold in 3 different Congressional Districts picking up 1 delegate per district where he came in 2nd.
Somebody prevent you from buying your underwear at KMart. Your guy of angry today.
Hattie, he will win it in the Primary. He could win it with over 50%, but I don’t know that he will.
Let me ask you this. If he wins it by 70%, what’s your first reaction.
1. Wow, he won it with 70%
2. Well it’s his home state.
It’s more than likely, number 2.
A Republican winning over Hillary would be a tall order in New York for two reasons.
It’s a very Liberal state, and it’s Hillary’s home state too.
Well, he pretty much had to win his home state. Any candidate that can't do that should hang it up.
Southern states were supposed to be his firewall and he won only two of them.
Looked at another way, he did manage to hold off the Trump steam roller in two states. He didn't do as good as I'd have liked, but it could have been worse, he might have only won Texas.
He isn't even competitive in states like Illinois, Ohio or Florida.
Perhaps. That's yet to be seen. The only poll that really matters is the vote itself.
When you look at the delegate counts, he's not doing too badly. Trailing Trump, sure, but he hasn't completely melted down. The primary season is really the only time we voters have an opportunity to affect the establishment in any meaningful way. I think the fight should go on, but I wish we could learn to be civil about it. Both Cruz and Trump are good men and good candidates that would be good for the Republic.
Or, he could have just gone to the Texas Secretary of State's web site and counted there. Probably trying to sound like an expert so folks will pay attention to his establishment natterings.
Really, you are going to try to use Wikipedia as an authoritative source???
Here’s the problem with this optimistic spin: That was Cruz’s home state and friendliest state. He already blew his wad. It’s downhill from here.
I took the “expected” comment as a standard political wisdom pronouncement. If a politician running for President loses their own home state, they are generally considered to be finished.
That site has been on the nose so far this year.
So yes. I’m going to use the same site I’ve been using all year.
It’s generally been ahead of the other sites.
If you have a more accurate site you’d like to suggest, I’m willing to review it.
Okay, stop at that if you like. I think they’re doing more than watching. Some are definitely riding too.
So, Cruz still only received 2less than half the votes in Texas?? Not a good showing for Cruz.
Yeah he got 44% vs 88% for W. Bush in 2000.
While neither is a native Texan, Bush seemed to be considered more “authentic”.
Bush and Cruz, two northerners claiming to be Texan. Austin is full of them.
Well they can give each other the secret “Harvard handshake”
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