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To: jaydee770; kiryandil

I have no problems with Trump earning his delegates. You have an asinine list of percentages that can effectively apply to all candidates, but least of all to Trump, who has won the most delegates to date. Trump is the most likely to break 1,237 of anyone running.

For anyone to get the majority in subsequent rounds, it will be against what the voters had selected, because the voters selected what was insufficient for a majority or for the proportionate vote tally that had existed.


206 posted on 03/18/2016 8:26:45 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: ConservativeMind

“...Trump is the most likely to break 1,237 of anyone running...”

The odds are in his favor, but he hasn’t done it yet and now cruz and kasich are aligned. They don’t have to win — they just have to prevent trump from reaching 1237.

“...For anyone to get the majority in subsequent rounds, it will be against what the voters had selected, because the voters selected what was insufficient for a majority or for the proportionate vote tally that had existed...”

I don’t know what you were trying to say, but what you wrote is unintelligible gibberish. Bottom line - If trump is rejected by over half the electorate, he has no claim to the nomination. You can just as easily argue that *more* voters wanted someone *other* than trump. Why should he be entitled to the nomination under that circumstance? That circumstance is where “contested” and/or “brokered” conventions come into play. And if contested or brokered, all remaining candidates are in play. But you know that, right? Because you’ve taken the initiative to educate yourself about contested and brokered conventions to know the difference, right?


217 posted on 03/18/2016 8:57:41 PM PDT by jaydee770
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