Posted on 03/23/2016 2:06:24 PM PDT by kara37
EMERSON POLL: WISCONSIN PRIMARY IN PLAY FOR BOTH PARTIES; CRUZ LEADS TRUMP BY A POINT; CLINTON UP 6 OVER SANDERS; CRUZ FARES BETTER THAN TRUMP IN GENERAL AGAINST CLINTON.
with 1 pt between them, what’s the MOE ?
[A vote for Cruz has been and still is a vote for Hillary.]
BS? A vote for Trump is a vote for Hillary, since all the polls show that Trump doesn’t stand a chance against Hillary.
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Put 2 brain cells together. Cruz can’t win FL,OH, or VA, in this election or any other. Plus now that he is nothing more than a Bushboy he’s lost the only thing he had going for him his principled conservatism. So yes a vote for Cruz is a vote for Hillary.
I’d be interested in knowing why you feel that way. Certainly, Wisconsin is more conservative than either Michigan or Illinois, but not by much when we are comparing the GOP crowd.
so what would YOU do in his position?
Yeah, we're sorry too.
Same ground game that served him so well in South Carolina, Florida, and Texas, right?
First, as to the poll. Was the poll geographically randomized, and were there any weightings applied? Madison and Milwaukee are liberal hell-holes (Madison is both the site of the state capital, and the U of Wisconsin's main campus, and has been described as "ten square miles of liberalism surrounded by reality").
Second, as to the awarding of delegates. If it is truly "winner take all" then Cruz might pull a PR coup here, what with Rancid Penis et al; and the U of Wisconsin-Madison. But if the awarding is proportional within congressional district, then we might end up like Missouri: a near tie on actual votes, but Cruz way over performs in just a couple of locales, and gets skunked everywhere else, resulting in the Donald walking away with most of the delegates. (Did you notice Cruz didn't contest Missouri or demand an (expensive, and likely fruitless) recount?
Third, the effects of Brussels and the Obama economy on the semi-rust-belt people of Wisconsin; combined with the fact that Madison is SO liberal, most of the voters there will go or Bernie, not Cruz ("...a religious nut like him?" they'll say, "are you crazy?"
(Shudders) Do you mean the drapes don't even match each other !!?
Or, perhaps, the cessation of such.
Yes. The Texas one especially.
“Cruz will never win a general election”
The closer you get to his home country, the better he does.
Wow. You Trump supporters and your personal attacks.
Tonight you tell me to get medicated or stop taking drugs, last night one told me to get cancer and a couple weeks ago another threatened to physically hurt me.
All because we disagree over politics? Really don’t know how to respond to this sometimes.
I don’t see how. Cruz is going to horrible areas. Cruz really should have done better in the south.
“Cruz is going to horrible areas”....
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I agree that the geography is working against Cruz going forward...Trump’s presence in the race siphoned off much of the Cruz constituency in the South. I only see a scenario where Cruz can get within ~100 delegates of Trump at the end, and that’s being generous. I believe that there is a better chance that Trump falls short of 1,237. But, right now Trump is in control of the math and has a good shot at getting over the hump before the convention.
Liz Mair, Scott Walker and Ted Cruz. Three peas in a pod.
Dude. They don’t LIKE the man. That doesn’t make him an outsider. It’s makes him unlikable.
If this is true, Kasich is bleeding Cruz just as Rubio did earlier, and as Newton Gingrich bled Santorum.
Also, supporters of Mrs. Bill who assume victory can go into the Republican primary. Supposedly, some overconfident Nixon people did that in 1968 for Eugene J. McCarthy.
Cruz lost in SC: he has hardly rebounded since then; with TX and UT somewhat expected.
I don’t believe it either
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