Posted on 04/17/2016 7:02:53 PM PDT by markomalley
More than six in 10 Republican voters believe that, if no GOP presidential candidate wins a majority of delegates before the convention, the one with the most votes should be the party's nominee, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
That's compared with 33 percent of Republicans who say the nominee instead should be the candidate whom convention delegates think would be the party's best standard-bearer.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
So odd. The general allows the republicans to vote democrat and vice Versa.
You complain when Reagan did it to. Stop it! Trump has the most votes and delegates. Tomorrow the totals will grow even more. Next Tuesday even more. Cruz has no way to get to 1237 so should drop out. He is not even at the half way point in delegates needed.
Yeah and I’m in Florida closed election and trump won. Want a prize or something?
So I guess in your scenario anyone who cannot come up with $4000 doesn’t get the right to be represented fairly as a voter? So only the wealthy can make decisions for our country then, right? I think you’re in the wrong party, elitism is for the communists. You’re basically saying that if you have thousands of dollars to spend, then you get to vote your conscience and everyone else just has to sit back and take it.
There is no chance for Cruz to win against Hillary, and when he loses to her his career will be over since he will always have the stigma of the one who lost to a corrupt Clinton, and divided the party and got less votes but still the nomination.
You can cite rules all you want, but enough voters will see the system as unfair and unrepresentative so they will not vote for Cruz. He is a garuntee lose for us. At least with Trump, he has defied all the odds against him so far, and at least there’s a chance.
How does anyone expect Cruz to win when his poll numbers are tanking anyway and can’t win any swing states? Even if he wins every state Romney did, he still loses!
I am a registered Republican in NY, 35 years.
BUT, my party is the USA. I don’t care about the Republican party. When I hear the word “party” it makes me think of the Communist Party. Party members. For the good of “the party”.
It’s just the system we have. I’m just not a secret handshake kinda guy.
So stupid. ....Like saying that after a 9-inning baseball game the team with the most hits should win rather than the team with the most runs.
>So stupid. ....Like saying that after a 9-inning baseball game the team with the most hits should win rather than the team with the most runs.
Well considering that one team was given 12 runs by the corrupt umpires without hitting the ball or even going up to bat.... maybe counting hits is a better idea.
>You don’t get it ... do you? You know... it’s not a felony if a bound delegate votes for someone else. It’s not even a misdemeanor. It has happened before. Even electoral college electors have voted in opposition to the way they were “bound” to vote.
And if they do it, we’ll burn the party to the ground. Actually we won’t have to anything. The open corruption of the party will massively suppressed GOP voter turn out to the point the party will deflate like a balloon and lose the house, the senate, and a lot of states on top of the presidency.
>Cruz has been the 2nd choice for the vast majority of Non-Cruz voters.
Will he still be the 2ed choice after he steals the nomination? I rather doubt it.
>If someone attacked you the way Trump has attacked them... and you could deny them the nomination... wouldn’t you do it? Of course you would... and of course they will.
Depends on if they still want to have a party next year or not. If they want to be honest and join the rats party where they belong then nothing of value was lost.
They are just trying to get psyched up enough to endure and survive the virtual evisceration that they know their candidate and his campaign is going to receive, in New York tomorrow and throughout the rest of New England over the next 3-4 weeks.
In the Western state of California The Donald is up about 20 points... and that is before the momentum build-up from his now certain New England wins bulldozes Ted within California so severely that Trump will have at least 25-30 percent points lead in voter support and the resulting delegate count advantage.
California is the wooden stake in Cruz’s failed candidacy and Ted’s personality and behavior in Wyoming, and Colorado work together as the hammer that is driving that stake.
“the nominee instead should be the candidate whom convention delegates think would be the party’s best standard-bearer.”.....
because these “delegates” are supposedly sooooooo much smarter that the voters? I’m buying that one, remembering how delegates are selected.
“Does the GOP really want to anger 62% of their voters?”........
A bit too late for that now. The people are pissed at the GOP and are about to dump them overboard, problem is the GOP can’t see the forest for the trees.
This reminds me of the people who want to elect POTUS by popular vote.
The popular vote, within each individual state, does in fact elect the POTUS...
the popular vote from each state drives the entire apparatus of the electoral college...though I suppose an elector could decide go rogue, and screw the state...
That sounds about right for republican support for Cruz at this time - he can't get his own base to keep him afloat so he resorts to the GOPE (that he claims to want to undo) in order to shove it up the People's collective arse...
Picking a party nominee is a different thing.
You are aware that there is no legal method of stopping someone from cross voting, I’m sure; no way of ensuring that mischeivous and spurious voters can be isolated exists...
Operation Chaos, and all that sort of thing...
Cruz is not going to win FL, OH, MI, PA, etc. Outside of Texas and a few Midwestern states, Cruz does very poorly.
He would win what Romney won, with the possible (unlikely) loss of North Carolina...
Actually, any objective view of this election cycle can see how poorly it sets up for the Pubs...
Actually, any objective view of this election cycle can see how poorly it sets up for the Pubs...
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True. I believe the GOPe would rather lose the presidency than Trump win. They don’t want to lose their power.
That said, I believe Trump may have a slightly higher chance of winning vs the democrats in the general election.
It doesn’t work that way in the general election, but hey what did those founding father’s know anyhow? They are just losers. /sarc
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