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This Bizarre Rule In The GOP Primaries Could Doom Some MAJOR Frontrunners
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| November 4, 2015
| Jack Davis
Posted on 11/04/2015 5:26:14 PM PST by Mechanicos
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Open Primaries in Dem states under these rules allows the Democrats to select the GOP candidate no matter who we want.
To: Mechanicos
The same thing is true for the Democrats. The Democratic primaries give equal weight to the southern states, even though there is no chance their candidate could win the election there.
To: Mechanicos
âThanks to this disparity, if a hard-right candidate like Cruz dominates deeply red Southern districts in the SEC primary, a more electable candidate like Rubio could quickly erase that deficit by quietly piling up smaller raw-vote wins in more liberal urban and coastal districts,â wrote FiveThirtyEight. I like how they declare that the guy who gets fewer votes is the more electable.
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posted on
11/04/2015 5:29:37 PM PST
by
pepsi_junkie
(The only fiscally sound thing dems ever did: create a state run media they don't have to pay for)
To: proxy_user
Hardly, its a population density issue. They have the advantage. Plus Conservatives are not inherently dishonest like liberals are.
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posted on
11/04/2015 5:30:11 PM PST
by
Mechanicos
(Nothing's so small it can't be blown out of proportion.)
To: proxy_user
I dont understand your answer. Wish I did. Seems important :)
does this mean that this article is misleading, or that dems end up with moderates too? i dont know.
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posted on
11/04/2015 5:30:18 PM PST
by
dp0622
To: Mechanicos
If the GOP apparatchiks take away the will of the people, they will destroy their own party.
Perhaps that is their goal.
To: Mechanicos
This is all political bull sh*t.
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posted on
11/04/2015 5:32:04 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: All
Point being the process is rigged to insure that the candidate considered most palatable by the political class is selected.
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posted on
11/04/2015 5:34:21 PM PST
by
RKBA Democrat
(Voting is self-abuse - without the pleasure.)
To: Mechanicos
Trump will win New York, but Pataki is in there to cut Trump’s numbers.
If this goes to the convention, and there’s a good possibility it will, I believe they’ve seen how poor a candidate that Bush is. They will not choose him.
If they choose to unify the party they’ll pick some kind of Cruz or Rubio combination.
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posted on
11/04/2015 5:34:43 PM PST
by
xzins
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To: pepsi_junkie
".... if a hard-right candidate like Cruz dominates deeply red Southern districts in the SEC primary, a more electable candidate like Rubio..."
and I need to read this clap trap that is treated as journalism because.......?
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posted on
11/04/2015 5:35:06 PM PST
by
zerosix
(Native Sunflower)
To: Mechanicos
Thatâs good news for pragmatic, moderate Republicans such as a Jeb Bush Yeah, that's great!
Because we NEED Mr. 4% to be nominated, right?
.
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posted on
11/04/2015 5:38:36 PM PST
by
TLI
( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: zerosix
If they give it to Rubio I will not vote. Same for Bush, Christie and the others like them.
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posted on
11/04/2015 5:40:13 PM PST
by
jimpick
To: Mechanicos
A Rinse Prius/Karl Rove move?
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posted on
11/04/2015 5:44:00 PM PST
by
SharpRightTurn
(White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
To: Mechanicos
In 2016, We the People will pick the Republican Nominee.
How about a million Patriots at the Republican National Convention?! Game On!
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posted on
11/04/2015 5:48:58 PM PST
by
Art in Idaho
(Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
To: Mechanicos
You are getting very close to Post of the Day.
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posted on
11/04/2015 5:54:30 PM PST
by
X-spurt
(CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
To: SharpRightTurn
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posted on
11/04/2015 5:54:39 PM PST
by
Mechanicos
(Nothing's so small it can't be blown out of proportion.)
To: Mechanicos
Open primaries should be banned. The idea that a political party would let anyone other then enrolled member of that party pick a candidate is insane.
To: Mechanicos
I hate the Electrical College too... /s
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posted on
11/04/2015 5:56:56 PM PST
by
mylife
To: xzins
Trump will win New York, but Pataki is in there to cut Trumpâs numbers.I doubt that. Even establishment Republicans in New York consider Pataki a has been.
To: jimpick
Like it or not. “I will not vote” is a vote for hitlery!
Did you vote for nobama in 2012 in abstentia?
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posted on
11/04/2015 5:57:56 PM PST
by
X-spurt
(CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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