Posted on 04/08/2016 8:58:51 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
In 2012 the GOPe gave us the architect of Obamacare Mitt Romney a crash dummy we had to hold our nose to vote for. An estimated 3.5 million potential conservative voters stayed home and another 17% of those who did show up actually voted for Obama.
Shortly after the 2012 disaster an analysis of the voting patterns in four states was conducted. The resultant data are facts the GOPe would just as soon we didn’t remember.
It found that with a total number of just 333,908 switches in votes in New Hampshire, Florida, Ohio and Virginia, Romney would have gained 64 Electoral College votes and beaten Barack Obama 270 to 268. But of course that was never going to happen because Romney was a decidedly poor candidate who inspired people to do the previously unthinkable and stay home, even knowing it would reelect Obama.
Romney’s campaign inspired no one.
Voter turnout fell by 9 million and Romney got 1.3 million fewer votes than McCain. Romney got 81,000 fewer votes in Ohio than McCain did in 2008.
Romney lost the most winnable election for president since Ronald Reagan’s 1984 landslide.
This year we have seen the rise of Donald Trump who is the total opposite of Romney. Everywhere Trump goes he generates excitement and as reported by a recent Gallup survey, enthusiasm among Trump’s supporters is at an “extraordinarily high”...
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You actually think the RNC will let Cruz be the nominee?
Undoubtable they have a Natural Born Citizen lawsuit ready to go. Yes, the same RNC that is now pushing Cruz.
Doesn’t matter who thinks what, it will be argued in Court, even if it takes years to resolve.
You miss my point entirely. I’m not debating whether Cruz or Trump is the more popular. That is completely irrelevant. My point is this. You cannot claim that Donald Trump represents the “will of the people”. Trump consistently polls at about 40% against either Clinton or Sanders. He is averaging about 40% in the Republican primaries. How is 40% “the will of the people”.
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If you had the GOPe, media, and Democrat establishment with their long knives out tearing into you, you’d be an even bloodier mess than Trump.
The GOPe poured $67M to buy 53K attack ads against Trump.
Screw them.
But Cruz hasn’t endured an onslaught of GOPe attack ads.
Cruz would shrivel up in about 5 seconds after the full force of the media and Democrat elite and establishment hit him.
Trump’s still standing.
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