Despite Complaints, Delegate System Has Given Trump a 22 Percent Bonus

NBC ^ | April 11, 2016 | ARI MELBER

[Steelfish]

Despite Complaints, Delegate System Has Given Trump a 22 Percent Bonus NBC. April 11, 2016 BY ARI MELBER

Donald Trump blasted the GOP's delegate rules Sunday, saying a "corrupt" system is denying him delegates in states he won. According to a new NBC analysis, however, Trump has benefited far more than Ted Cruz under the party's arcane rules for allocating delegates.

Trump now leads the Republican field with 756 delegates — or 45 percent of all delegates awarded to date. Yet he has won about 37 percent of all votes in the primaries, according to the NBC analysis, meaning Trump's delegate support is greater than his actual support from voters.

For each percentage point of total primary votes that Trump has won, he has been awarded 1.22 percent of the total delegates.

In other words, as a matter of Republican Party math, Trump has been awarded a delegate bonus of 22 percent above his raw support from voters. By contrast, Cruz has been awarded about 1.14 percent of the delegates for each percentage point of votes he has won — a delegate bonus of 14 percent above his raw support.

[Steelfish]

Rules don’t apply to conmen and snakeoil salesmen do they? Unless of course, it works for them.

[Sybeck1]

Exactly, that little slick headed Canuck thinks he can when this with millions less popular votes and delegates he came nowhere close to winning.

[dynoman]

Trump’s also got millions more votes than the other candidates. Calculate that.

He would have got votes and delegates in Colorado if it wasn’t deliberately set up the way it was. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3419594/posts?page=55#55

I agree with Jim;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3418598/posts?page=62#62

[Donglalinger]

Those are from states that can vote, states that can’t vote are 100% Ted

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Yawn

[dynoman]

[Nifster]

Stupid commentary from the lame stream

Here’s a question: if the GOPe screws both Cruz and Trump would anyone go for s Trump/Cruz third party run? I mean that would make things very interesting

[gdani]

THIS MORNING = Cruz is stealing votes with the help of the GOPe and a thoroughly undemocratic process!!

NOW = This system ain't so bad

[bubman]

You forget that Trump has total votes included from winner take all primaries while his support in those primaries were at best 45%.

[TXSearcher]

Rules don’t apply to conmen and snakeoil salesmen do they? Unless of course, it works for them.

Actually, the game Trump is playing is what progressive/liberals do...which is why I've quit listening to him.

[11th Commandment]

I am a Cruz supporter who think Trump complaints are to gin up the base to make a contested convention vote a force play for him to win. Having said this, this article is STUPID. Delegates are decided state by state and not on a National allocation. If Trump has 45% of the delegates, state rules are state rule. We are a Republic, not a central government!

[dynoman]

LOLOL!! No way to rationally, ethically, or morally defend what happened in Colorado. Amazing how so called self professed “conservatives” bong the elite establishment kool-aid. Probably take it as an enema too. Drunk on it for sure.

I agree with Jim;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3418598/posts?page=62#62

[Nifster]

Colorado was an outrageous and duplicitous weekend theft. They kicked trump people off of ballots and other acts

If that is what you mean by100% Cruz then I point you to saddens Iraq.

[QuigleyDU]

Times is a changing. GoPe and their ilk being exposed, what began in 2010 is coming to fruition. The end of the party is nigh. They’ll go kicking and screaming. Cruz tool types will rationalize and hold out a little longer, fully, but unintentionally endorsing Hillary.

Party to be replaced by an opposition party because we will not have enough numbers to turn the ship around.

2016 end of America. These future collectivist times will be interesting and expensive.

[Rashputin]

LOL. Sure, everyone knew how the delegates were allocated, it was all done by the rules, and at the very least, it bears some relation to the way the voters voted.

I expect a lot more of this type of absurdity as the Cruz camp finally gets feedback from their team of crack psychologists who analyze the data they buy and realizes they've shot themselves in the foot yet again with their Colorado game.

[FreeReign]

Trump now leads the Republican field with 756 delegates — or 45 percent of all delegates awarded to date. Yet he has won about 37 percent of all votes

I just pointed this out about 20 minutes ago on another thread.

[FreeReign]

You forget that Trump has total votes included from winner take all primaries while his support in those primaries were at best 45%.

"No fair"!

"Disenfranchisement of the voters"!

"Waaaa"!

[The Toll]

Winner take all rules. So?

[Robert DeLong]

Figures never lie, but liars always figure.

This is such a disingenuous manipulation of figures, period.