Posted on 04/06/2016 7:01:32 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Wisconsin was rebel Cruz’s fantastic victory at Chancellorsville a few weeks before Gettysburg.
The strict-constructionist candidate won the Republican primary.
The conservative candidate won a ten year supreme court seat.
It was a great day in Wisconsin!
Wisconsin is the last Bible waving state. He is toast from here on out.
So all of the states Cruz loses = so what? There are more states.
Cruz wins a state = other guy is finished.
This is the same crap technique Democrats use.
Cruz spent the first part of his campaign staying somewhat quiet and building his ground game. Seems to be paying off as of late when it comes to locking up delegates. But we’ll see going forward.
I think Cruz will win Pennsylvnia.....
Wisconsin was proof that the GOPe machine there is well oiled and functional... and that Cruz is every bit a part of it.
Kudos to Cruz and Jeb for the win. However, the spin that this changed the race is a bit of a stretch. We’ll see how things go in 2 weeks in NY.... when 95 delegates are are on the line.
Cruz is mathematically eliminated on 4/26. WI didn’t change that.
Nobody is mathematically eliminated until someone gets 1,237 delegates. Geez...
I’m guessing after Cruz gets wiped out in the northeast the narrative will be, “Trump wins in his backyard but Cruz hanging tough”. The media is hyping Cruz to stay in the race. That should be obvious.
WI isn’t so much a bible waving state, but It was, and I stated it many times, probably the last best place for Cruz to pull an upset.
THe GOPe machine is battle tested and well proven there, and it gave Cruz a solid victory.
Such things do not exist in any othter state coming up... Sadly we will have to deal with 2 weeks of the race has changed, until NY where Trump once again demolishes Cruz... and then a week later, Cruz is mathematically eliminated from being able to get 1237.
Kudos to Cruz and Jeb on the win.
No Gender Gap: For all the talk about the gender gap, Cruz’s win was perfectly uniform among men and women, winning both by 13%. Again, this proves that it’s more than just galvanizing anti-Trump demographics. When Cruz is actually able to focus on a state for a full week or two and get out his message to the voters, it’s a different race. For the first time ever, Cruz not only crushed Trump among those who voted based on “shared values” but tied Trump among those who wanted the candidate who would bring the most change to Washington.
No gender gap? Well I guess we can put to bed the “Trump has a women problem” meme. LOL.
Yes Cruz is mathematically eliminated on 4/26, on that date there are not enough delegates left that even if he got all of them he can’t reach 1237.
Will he stick around? Sure... but he is eliminated from 1237.
Simple math.. JEEZ.
Reinventing Priebus, Paul Ryan and Scott Walker are all it Gope guys in one state....
This race began with 17 candidates,
*****************************
16 of them working for the Cheap Labor Express
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2016/apr/05/wisconsin-primary-results-live-election-2016?CMP=twt_gu
Cruz won on the strength of the same highly Republican Milwaukee collar counties that have kept Scott Walker in office. Nothing wrong with that, but the truth is, without any conventional "ground game" type "retail politics", Trump has very broad-based support in WI and won far more counties despite having the Republican Governor, Speaker of the House, RNC Chairman and all media figures endorsing Cruz and badmouthing him.
Your example proves one thing: You can win WI as a Republican if you align yourself with the Republican Establishment. Southeast Wisconsin is Ground Zero for RNC Solidarity. Just substitute the newest member of the club for Romney:
More like Germany’s Battle of the Bulge.
Why do you keep saying that? Nobody is mathematically eliminated until someone else gets 1,237. That's the way the system works.
Trumpy should never have run for the Republican Nomination if he wasn't prepared to win a convention of delegates. No politician can personally trash everyone else in the race and then expect to win a convention of delegates. But, Trumpy had to run as a republican to do what he wanted to do... which was destroy Jeb. He accomplished his goal. Now he has to deal with a convention of delegates, and he has no chance there. Nada, zip, none.
Its not just that, but the GOPE there also has had to fight back the left multiple times in 4 years... if there was a state where the GOPe could put up a strong fight, WI was it.
Kudos to Cruz and Jeb, I said many times if there was someplace left for Cruz to surprise WI was probably it.. However, there is nowhere for Cruz to go from here. He isn’t going to turn WI win into suddenly running the table...2 weeks NY votes, and I doubt highly Cruz will do better than a handful or two of the 95 delegates up for grabs there.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.