Posted on 04/08/2016 5:31:46 AM PDT by don-o
West Virginia looks perfect for Donald Trump: a struggling working-class state filled with the types of voters who have backed him elsewhere and could deliver one of his biggest victories.
But a sweep there might not matter. That’s because as many as 34 delegates — the entire contingent — may be free to back whomever they want at the Republican National Convention.
Much the same is true in Pennsylvania, home to a hotly contested April 26 primary, where there are 57 uncommitted delegates. Other states and territories, from Colorado to Wyoming to Guam, will also send squads of unbound representatives.
These are the swing voters of the GOP nominating contest, nearly 200 activists and elected leaders beholden to nothing except their personal judgment and empowered to make or break candidacies.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Twain was right...
“If voting truly mattered, they would not let us do it.”
If there is a Brokered Convention and G.O.P pisses away it's momentum with Shenanigans, than they are going to Lose in November, even if Cruz is the Nominee.
Whoever it is going to be needs to win outright. Too Much Bad Blood would have been brewed in our own ranks for the Repub Nominee to win. (We control our own destiny, 2016 is ours to lose)
And The GOPe and Bosses are perfectly fine with a loss.
Why? Because what difference would it make? Hillary is Pres? oh no....They still have their Buffets, Their Crackers and Cheese and they get to go to Nine Rivers Country Club every Sunday, so shut up base.
One single OR elector, that no one thought important enough to contest, decided the election of 1877.
Only 373 FL voters decided the 2000 presidential election.
So this isn’t surprising or unusual at all. Just like football, politics is often a game of inches, but over the course of a game, those inches add up.
They do or they don't
A Trump-Cruz alliance is the way to preempt the Romney / Rove devices. My suspicion is that a lot of the 200 delegates mentioned in the article are supporters of neither of our guys.
Anyone know if a delegate can abstain in the first round?
I doubt Trump and Cruz will be having tea and crumpets anytime soon, but the campaign managers have to view having control of the rules making as crucial.
If you want to run for President, you should at least learn the rules and regulations for running......and a man who wheels and deals in the multi-million dollar business world, should have been able to wrap this up better than Cruz and Kasich ever could.
The addition of Manafort to his team should make up for Trump's deficiency.
Screw with Trump and give us President Hillary, and the whole two-party system will come down like a house of cards.
Absolutely.
I have said this again and again until it sticks:
If there is a Brokered Convention and G.O.P pisses away it’s momentum with Shenanigans, than they are going to Lose in November, even if Cruz is the Nominee.
Whoever it is going to be needs to win outright. Too Much Bad Blood would have been brewed in our own ranks for the Repub Nominee to win. (We control our own destiny, 2016 is ours to lose)
And The GOPe and Bosses are perfectly fine with a loss.
Why? Because what difference would it make? Hillary is Pres? oh no....They still have their Buffets, Their Crackers and Cheese and they get to go to Nine Rivers Country Club every Sunday, so shut up base.
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Tools and fools. Cruz and his voters.
I will support a Trump 3rd party candidacy if there is true dishonesty at the republican convention.
There is no way that one of the top 2 candidates should not be the nominee. Period.
They are far ahead of their closest rival.
So, it is clear to me. Dishonesty will prove the establishment is what I thought all along. I have been solidly opposed to the establishment throughout.
I will not participate in a national level Chris McDaniel/Thad Cochran type perversion of an election.
Perhaps there would not be so much “bad blood” in our ranks if some had not been misled by Donny the Democrat Donor and supported the real Tea Party conservatives running for POTUS.
We had three to chose from.
Just saying....
Jedi.
All politics is local is rapidly becoming reality isn’t it?
The fun is just beginning.
Jedi.
If Trump hadn’t jumped in, we’d all be bitching about Jeb! Bush right now. Give the man some credit.
I believe that it is now just becoming apparent to many Americans that their elections and candidates have been rigged and their votes have basically been meaningless in the final analysis.
Both still want to win...Trump by getting the 1237 before the gavel falls; Cruz by playing the angles.
Cruz knows his strategy is all he has. Is Trump willing to entertain that even if he has the 1237 “on paper” there seems to be a real possibility the magic number might be an illusion, once the sausage making commences?
Whining and personal attack is not a viable strategy for a win in November. I have said all along that Trump can earn my vote in November, should he obtain the nomination.
But, he needs to see how his and Cruz’s interests coincide against the establishment. The more I learn about the process, the more I see what a stacked deck it potentially is. To this point, most of us did not bother to delve deeply into the technicalities.
Now that we are, we need to demand that both of our candidates do all within their power to thwart Rove / Romney. Then, let the chips fall where they may.
I won’t be surprised if Cruz has the most delegates at start of convention.
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