Posted on 03/15/2016 6:36:57 PM PDT by WilliamIII
Summary: Keeping John Kasich in the race divides the anti-Trump vote.
Two months ago, based on a computer model I developed of the Republican delegate race, I wrote in The American Prospect that the GOPs nomination rules tilted the playing field to Donald Trumps advantage. For Trumps opponents, the time window for counteracting many of those advantages and winning a first-ballot nomination has passed. Now the campaign enters a new phase, as Trumps rivals try to deny him a majority of pledged delegates going into the convention. Simulating the remaining contests based on current polling data, my model picks up an unexpected wrinkle: Trumps strongest position comes if he loses the primary in Ohio on Tuesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at prospect.org ...
I’m far more comfortable with Trump than Levin ...Levin wraps globalism in the Reagan mantle ...everyone can see it ... it’s absolutely disgusting
Just because Levin mumbles Reagan and the Constitution in every other sentence doesn’t make him the authority on Conservatism ...Levin has twisted globalism into Conservatism by using Reagan’s name and it’s totally disgusting what Levin is doing ...he should be ashamed
Why do you expect us to toe the line and vote for Trump, if you wouldn’t vote for Cruz? People have to realize that this has nothing to do with your own ego. If Trump goes into the convention with 1237 delegates then the majority of Republicans want him to be the nominee. If he can’t win the first vote, then people have a right to cast a majority vote for another nominee. Everyone’s vote should count and the nominee should be chosen by the majority. I’m ready to vote for my country and not my ego and you should man up and do the same.
Somehow I hear Jerry Seinfeld somewhere, saying, “Losing — as a way of winning.”
(and you want to be my latex salesman)
Good grief! How many times are you going to post the same damn thing? We’ve all read it already.
WTF? If you are not insane, I hope that you are sober by morning.
Thanks for the reply. You certainly seem sober. That leaves us with Trump.
Just keeping it real here. Trump does his best when he hammers the other candidates on specific issues where they're vulnerable. Kasich got a pass in that regard.
Trump was hammering Kasich on trade ... I chalk it up to home turf ...Cruz the Ruse is a horrible candidate, but even he won his home state
He got a decent share of delegates but--going 0 for 4 is a "very good night?" I don't think so. If you are counting on ex-Rubio voters, look to Kasich, not Cruz. If they were going to go for Cruz they would have been there in the first place.
I have friends in Ohio. Kasich did not exactly win there.
There was a huge movement to vote Kasich to stop Trump.
It worked.
I believe he is making big plans to win now that Rubio is out and Kasich is a non-factor even if he thinks differently.
Cruz would have won, even in Florida, in a two-man race.
Kasich rises tonight.
The GOPe money comes to him tonight.
He won’t win another state, but the two man race as it moves West goes Trump/Kasich.
Kasich an emotional mess and he will not be able to keep his nasty temper under control. He’s never been vetted and doesn’t like being questioned.
This will be a cake walk for Trump. I expect Cruz will back Kasich, of course. They are of the same club.
This reasoning seems stupid to me! Ohio would have helped Trump tremendously.
Not enough this past week. He needed a LIST of jobs that have left OH under Kasich. He needed to tell folks what would happen without Common Core, how local govs should choose what students learn. Instead of "repeal and replace" it should be drop the Obamacare mandate.
Kasich governs as a democrat. He starves local governments. Trump didn't come across on those issues.
Oh well ..it’s over now
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