Posted on 04/12/2016 7:38:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
If the Republican primary process were designed to produce an exactly proportional result based on voters' choice rather than a winner, the party would have been doomed to a contested convention almost from the start.
Donald Trump, who has failed more than any other GOP presidential front-runner in recent history to unite the party behind him, would have no chance of securing the nomination, for he has won only 37 percent of primary votes so far.
Keep this in mind as Trump gripes about how his opponent Ted Cruz secured all 37 delegates at the Colorado convention last weekend. The process is certainly imperfect, but it made clear which candidate knows how to run and organize things and which one doesn't.
Wherever strange or arcane Republican state party rules have benefited Trump, such as when he secured all the pledged delegates in one state while winning only 33 percent of the vote, he's just fine with that. But when the rules hurt him, or he fails to learn or execute a strategy to exploit them, he whines about unfairness. Pretty unimpressive.
Right, we don't want to fix a rigged system, we want to control it.
Rush is pounding that drum right now. Giving all the reasons why people are supporting Trump but demanding that they vote for Cruz. Makes perfect sense.
Winning on a technicality, it is what lawyers do.
Have you noticed that the rules committee will be meeting in a week to change the rules? The rules are was ever they need to be for our rulers to keep ruling.
If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it."
Mark Twain -It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
-- John Quincy Adams
Give it a rest. That was a mismanagement operation by Trump’s staff who knew the rules months before but failed to work the state properly. The fact of the matter is that overall, Trump has 45% of the delegates with only 37% of the votes and he is the one who is making most of the rules.
These kind of arguments about Trump simply don’t impress me.
They always ignore the fact that the other guy is doing even worse.
This one also ignores that Trump won proportional states, he won take all states, he won take most states, and he has won twice the states of Cruz and about 20 times the states of Kasich.
That certainly makes THEM the ones who will ‘unite’ the party.
I see the results of America being at the bottom of the barrel in the world in mathematics education.
Erick Erickson Bump
Finally, a picture that’s actually cute.
Anyway, you cannot talk reason to Trumpers.
They refuse to acknowledge how much Trump benefited in early primaries.
Trump has never been able to secure 50% of the vote anywhere.
He thinks he can do it in New York but it is doubtful.
I believe Trump’s delegates will automatically be released after the first ballot.
And so will, Rubio’s, Carson’s, Bush’s and Kasich’s.
It will be interesting to see what happens.
That was a phony tweet.
If the voters in Colorado wanted a different system, they could have set it up.
Their system required participation which many voters won’t bother with.
And so will, Rubio’s, Carson’s, Bush’s and Kasich’s.
It depends upon the state. Some state have delegates bound for 2 or 3 ballots - Alabama has them bound until the nomination is decided or the candidate drops out. But probably 80% of the candidates will be unbound after the first ballot.
Trump said he knew all about Colorado and just threw away 37 votes??
I guess he’d rather lose votes than admit ignorance.
Exactly right.
Too bad the whiners refuse to research the Colorado selection process. It may not be great, but it is what Colorado decided on.
Yes. Almost as complicated as the Primary process.
I looked up the procedure a while back... so 80%, huh?
That’s a WAG, but based on the number of states that only bind the delegates for one ballot, plus the delegates already unbound going into the convention, 80% seems a reasonable number.
Look at the big picture and think strategically.
LOL! That’s about his level - the guy who basically destroyed Atlantic City by introducing a skeezy “gentleman’s club” into a place that was trying to appear a family friendly cross between the old Catskills and Las Vegas - entertainment, food, fountains, etc. ....but with gambling.
He’s an inherited-wealth low life who has utter contempt for the very people he gets his fans from (whom he would probably call “losers”).
I know, there is no talking sense into them. They all act like spoiled children.
Bet on it. People don’t get here;
http://www.trump.com/real-estate-portfolio/
http://www.trump.com/hotel-collection/
http://www.trump.com/golf/
And signing 22k paychecks on the front with out serious stragetic thinking skills.
A lot of big businessmen and entrepreneurs don’t declare corporate bankruptcy multiple times (what it is now - 4 times?) and expect taxpayers to pick up the tab.
But The Donald sure does.
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