Posted on 03/05/2016 12:49:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In the Kansas Republican caucus, very early returns have Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in the lead. With 3 percent of the results in, Cruz has 53 percent of the vote, followed by Donald Trump with 21 percent, John Kasich with 15 percent, and Marco Rubio with 10 percent. The Kansas Republican Party released a statement earlier Saturday, saying turnout across the state was "incredible," with some locations reporting "four of five" times the number of voters who came out in 2012. Republicans are also caucusing today in Kentucky and Maine, and holding a primary in Louisiana.
In a closed Republic primary?
Yes...
Obviously.
Can you show me a poll where Trump does better against Clinton than Cruz does?
As Santorum said just today, Cruz is NOT Santorum or Huckabee.
Anyway, we do not know how either would have done in the general election. We were ordered to support the “can win” guys.
The media or Clinton, same thing, have not even begun destroying Cruz yet
Trump has been hit by everybody and he still moving along
“Cruz supporters are good people that lie to themselves. Cruz will get stomped by any Democrat because he is not tough enough to withstand the MSM onslaught. “
We are up against the weakest candidate possible. The ONLY thing Hillary has going for her is that she is a woman. That’s all they got.
Yes, ANY conservative is going to get ruthlessly attacked for being conservative. That does not mean we give up. Victory does not come by waving a white flag.
I can be pragmatic and vote for Trump. But he is not ideologically conservative. He is an unpredictable wild card. Cruz is reliably conservative.
Easiest to count up
Some probably didn’t even have 10 people show up
Cruz wins CPAC Straw Poll with 40%. Just reported.
13.6% reporting in ME
Ted Cruz 46.8%1,558—
Donald Trump 36.0%1,197-361
Marco Rubio 10.3%341-1,217
John Kasich 6.2%206-1,352
All Others 0.7%24-1,534
All polls are weighted. But projected head to head is not very realistic because they are not a real choice. If Cruz can’t beat Trump outside of his own state (and that was a poor showing)and outside of these cumbersome caucuses then he can’t beat Hillary, period.
Cruz was the most hated man in Washington out of the gate. And through the primary season, his negatives have been shrinking. The more people see him on the trail and in the debates, the better he scores.
YES!
Yea CRUZ!
True. Cruz can’t win Kansas.
Caucus states are almost exhausted not very many more in the future.
If CPAC Predicted presidents, we would be on our second term of the Ron Paul administration.....
Oh.
That’s different.
I don’t like this ‘leaking’ of information. One way or another, I don’t like it.
Then, there’s the same day voting practice, provisional balloting. I can’t tell you how upsetting it is that I understand vocabulary meanings of these things.
I did identify a new one: dabbing. Don’t know its meaning yet.
McConnell is likely responsible for Cruz negatives in Washington. He is holding one mighty big grudge.
I think they will stay home because both CRuz and Hillary are globalist hacks.
Well, Cruz is ahead in two of the four contests today. So I guess we will wait and see if Cruz can beat Trump outside of his own State.
That is why we have Primaries and Caucuses, right?
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