Posted on 03/07/2016 1:11:56 PM PST by Innovative
A pattern is starting to emerge that holds both promise and peril for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump:
Trump does better in “open” primary contests where members of either party can vote, while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz tends to do better in "closed" contests limited only to registered Republicans.
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Cruz is trying to lawyer his campaign not lead.
No evidence of that. For one thing Democrats have a real choice to make in their own primaries. More likely Trump draws heavily from independents who outnumber both Republicans and Democrats nationally by a wide margin.
The “shenanigans” that got us McCain and Romney were conducted by “true conservatives” who attacked each of our leading candidates one-by-one until there were none left. Then the GOPe RINO waltzes in free.
We’d be a hell of a lot better off to push the good qualities of our personal favorite candidates and leave the attacks off.
Good one.
The GOP wanted a bigger tent and now blue collar working class guys join us the GOP doe snot want them.
guess if they were girlie, homosexuals and cross dressers they would be welcomed by the GOP
I don’t know or believe anything anymore. 99 out of 100 sources are either liars, misinformed, or in the tank for someone. It is all still performance art.
seems so
I hear these are voters who didn’t vote in the last two elections and some haven’t voted since the 80’s.
well some are my wife’s family and I have known them and a couple of good pals for many many years.
Or, there are a whole lot of democrat working stiffs out there that aren’t any more happy with the establishment than we are.
So, who gets the delegates won by the guys that dropped out? Right now it’s just Carson but there should be two more soon hopefully.
We can chose to agree to disagree on that point.
It’s great to get crossovers, but that’s not what’s important. It’s the independents. Republicans are about 25% of the electorate. Democrats are about 31%. Obviously neither party can win with just their voters. Independents are about 42% but tend to vote less often. The candidates who can motivate independents to go to the polls and vote for them are the ones who win.
My experience tells me that most independents tend to be more conservative than liberal, but often have a visceral dislike of the Republican brand as only being for the rich. Trump’s strength with them is that they don’t see him as a traditional Republican.
I think that the biggest difference between Trump and Cruz victories isn’t one of open vs. closed primaries, but of primaries vs. caucuses. Since so few people actually vote in a caucus, having a good ground game and meeting one-on-one with local politicians, activists, and journalists is critical. Cruz has a strong ground game in caucus states, Trump does not. On the other hand, in big primary states Trump can bank on higher name recognition and media exposure.
Not so much this time. This election is the exception to most previous elections.
There are more people in the US that vote DEMOCRAT (Democrats/the Dead/Illegal immigrants/etc) than do REPUBLICAN. If there are not 'crossovers', no Republican Candidate can win the general election.
Trump does better in Real World primaries.
Cruz does better in Safe Zone primaries.
“Cruz sees success in GOP-only contests”....
If anyone is surprised by that statement, they have been sleeping under a rock for some time. The GOP and RNC have been working overtime to figure a way to defeat Trump.
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