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.

[Robert DeLong]

Not only are you obtuse, you also cherry pick to make your case. Sorry, your tactics will not work with me. What I provided earlier, was not the simple definition, but rather the full blown definition. Trump has received the majority of votes per candidates running. I was not referring to the majority of votes cast.

. From Merriam Webster

majority

noun | ma·jor·i·ty |\mə-ˈjȯr-ə-tē, -ˈjär-\

Popularity: Top 30% of words

Simple Definition of majority

1: a number that is greater than half of a total
2: a number of votes that is more than half of the total number
3: the group or party that is the greater part of a large group

Full Definition of majority

plural ma·jor·i·ties

1 obsolete: the quality or state of being greater

2
a: the age at which full civil rights are accorded
b: the status of one who has attained this age

3
a: a number or percentage equaling more than half of a total (a majority of voters) (a two-thirds majority)
b: the excess of a majority over the remainder of the total: margin (won by a majority of 10 votes)
c: the greater quantity or share (the majority of the time)

4: the group or political party having the greater number of votes (as in a legislature)

5: the military office, rank, or commission of a major

[CA Conservative]

Let’s make this easy for you - unless Trump gets 1237 delegates, he has not earned a majority of the delegates and will not get the nomination. Regardless of how you define majority, that is how the GOP defines it, and that will be what determine who will be the nominee.

[Robert DeLong]

We are not in dispute with regards to that. So what are you talking about? If you are talking about my statement that Trump has a majority of votes cast fro a Republican candidate, that is true. He doesn’t have a majority of votes cast, but he has the largest majority of votes cast for a candidate in the Republican primaries.

[CA Conservative]

He doesn’t have a majority of votes cast, but he has the largest majority of votes cast for a candidate in the Republican primaries.

That is called a plurality - less than a majority, but more than any other candidate.

[Robert DeLong]

Or the largest majority, either are correct.

[jjotto]

A candidate’s followers don’t know the difference between a majority and a plurality? I think I see a problem here...