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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Its a poll of Republicans retard.So do I dimwit. That's how I know what I'm talking about. If you don't know how CalifornIANS are bad mouthed, it's you that has no clue.I live in ca, and so does Jim.
Get a clue
I live in liberal hell here in Sacramento. The line I know would vote for trump cause they hate Hillary so much. None, ZERO would vote for Cruz.
Cruz will get zero crossover appeal. He’s gonna go down in a flaming heap in the general. What a F’ing disaster this guys gonna be.
Alinsky tactic.
I am human, and my language is a Character flaw.
Since I am, and always will be, a work in progress.
You should have heard the language the prophets used when talking to infidels.
If you support Trump you should be used to it though.
Rubio dropping out would be a net help to Trump.
I don’t care about the primary. I’m taking GENERAL.
Cruz might barely win the candidacy. He’ll then get crushed in the general. I don’t know why people don’t see how comical those polls are that show him even competing with Hillary.
good one. I wish I thought of it.
LOL
I live in CA. It’s the land of fruits and nuts. So left we are about to fall into the Pacific. About 80% accurate.
Agree. This place is bat shit crazy. Unfortunately I’m stuck here unless I divorce my wife and never want to see my kid again.
Yea, and keep believing that.
It’s the same thing they told Reagan
Oh yea, they told Ted that when he ran for the US Senate.
Oh he may win the nomination, but he will lose the general then Texas will have a Democrat senator.
Funny thing happened though, Ted Won Huge!
I know you don’t think he put Ted away. But Ted has no road forward.
Trump just picked up 254 delegates in a non winner take all environment,
Ted MAY have a few victories left, but nobody sees a way forward for him besides him and “some” of his supporters.
That assumes all the other candidate’s support goes to Ted.
Not gonna happen...
Good Cruz news! I’ve been trying to find the delegate counts all day. Thanks for posting.
Complicated charts? There's no complicated charts. If the counts are correct per Congressional District, it's easy to figure out.
Cruz didn't get 50% (but for 2 CDs over 50%) or more of the vote so he gets 2 delegates per Texas congressional district as the highest vote getter and being over 20% That equal 2 x 34 CDs = 68, And the two CDs that Cruz got 50% or higher, he was awarded all three; 2 x 3 = 6 delegates. So that's 74 delegates in total.
For the 47 at large Texas delegates, since Cruz was under 50% of the vote, they are also proportional. Cruz won 30 of these at large delegates out of 47.
The formula see [Rule 38. Section 9.b.]
Statewide proportional of candidates 20% or more.
Cruz: 47 × 1,252,969[Cruz's votes] ÷ 2,022,284 [total TX votes] = 29.120 rounds up to 30 delegates.
Trump: 47 × 769,315 ÷ 2,022,284 = 17.880 truncates to 17 delegates.
Therefore Cruz wins 104 Texas delegates. This guy smoking something.
Sorry man. This country is way WAY down the road from Reagan.
I agree with 95% of what Cruz says but I know, with 100% certainty he gets crushed by cankles. It’s the world we live in today man. It’s common sense. I can’t ignore common sense.
Someone must win a majority of the delegates. If they don’t, it doesn’t matter how many states were won by who. The Party gets to pick a consensus candidate. Trump supporters better hope he wins a clear majority of delegates. His scorched earth democrat style attacks on all other republicans virtually guarantees he will never be selected the consensus candidate if he does not win a majority of delegates. If you doubt this, I point you to the unprecedented number of Republican Governors and Republican members of Congress who have already pledged to NEVER vote for Trump. The only way for the voters to have a say in the nominee is for the voters to actually allocate a majority of the delegates to one person. Otherwise, the establishment gets to choose. And it will not be Trump.
It’s not normal because of Donald Trump.
You’re about to see how not normal it is, as Trump buries Ted going forward.
Texas has a huge number of delegates. Glad Trump recognized that Tuesday night.
“Cruz might barely win the candidacy. He’ll then get crushed in the general. I don’t know why people don’t see how comical those polls are that show him even competing with Hillary.”
Well, if Trump gets the nomination, I hope those polls showing him losing to Hillary are also comical.
The Californians in the poll are Republicans.
Since most Republicans are liberal it says a lot.
We had Arne, and most Republicans do not want another guy like him in the White House.
So they reject Trump and embrace Cruz.
You can only push people so far before they see the error of their liberal way, and believe me, Californians know Democrats when we see one, and Trump is a Democrat.
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