Posted on 04/26/2016 9:02:35 PM PDT by Lonely Bull
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Thanks, and let 'er rip!
Windy
Free Republic Caucus 2016 04/27 (1 more day) (The final thread will be the one labeled "04/28.")
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| Date | Voting thread | Discussion thread | Results [on www.hotr.us] | Sequence no. |
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| 4/27 | [link] | [link] | [available later] | 99 |
| 4/26 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 98 |
| 4/25 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 97 |
| 4/24 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 96 |
| 4/23 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 95 |
| 4/22 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 94 |
| 4/21 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 93 |
| 4/20 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 92 |
| 4/19 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 91 |
| 4/18 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 90 |
| 4/17 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 89 |
| 4/16 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 88 |
| 4/15 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 87 |
| 4/14 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 86 |
| 4/13 | [link] | [link] | [link] | 85 |
| Dates | Table | Sequence nos. |
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| 4/06 - 4/20 | [link] | 78-92 |
| 3/30 - 4/13 | [link] | 71-85 |
| 3/23 - 4/06 | [link] | 64-78 |
| 3/16 - 3/30 | [link] | 57-71 |
| 3/09 - 3/23 | [link] | 50-64 |
| 3/02 - 3/16 | [link] | 43-57 |
| 2/24 - 3/09 | [link] | 36-50 |
| 2/17 - 3/02 | [link] | 29-43 |
| 2/10 - 2/24 | [link] | 22-36 |
| 2/03 - 2/17 | [link] | 15-29 |
| 1/27 - 2/10 | [link] | 8-22 |
| 1/20 - 2/03 | [link] | 1-15 |
Good evening Lonely Bull. Good evening Windflier.
Thank you for the ping to the discussion thread.
Looks like Trump is going to take the nomination.
I would be cool to have some kind of interactive process for the convention like platform issues, etc. Maybe something like FR Polls or something. Maybe that is asking too much of the webmaster to make happen by then, but it would be a great addition to the site.
Thank you for all your hard work. This has been an amazing ride.
I think that as of last night....it’s over.
Thanks to both of you for running these Caucus Threads. It has been fun.
It was over last week, but it has taken Toad Cruz a while to catch up.
Use the links to review the stats at this point.
Ted now needs 137.86% of the remaining delegates.
It’s a joke.
Trump needs about 51%, and has captured 51.5% to this point.
I wonder which guy has this sewn up.
I think the big landslide in the New England states will affect Ted very negatively going forward, particularly now that he is mathematically eliminated.
Folks don’t want to see him snatch this from Trump.
Win it fair and square? Sure. Manipulate delegates? No.
Windflier helped out too.
Thanks for having fun with it.
That’s all we asked...
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
Looks like Donald is a master at narrative. This is an area where the good guys have fallen flat in several of the past 5 or 6 elections.
I watched as he turned losses in CO and WY into diatribes against the establishment rigging system and as he turned Ted and Kasich collusion into a gigantic national disgust. Can’t wait to see what he does to hildebeeste.
That is what Donald J. Trump made the last “Trump Card” in 1987!
Have Fun
I don’t kid myself. Life is very fragile, and success doesn’t change that. If anything, success makes it more fragile. Anything can change, without warning, and that’s why I try not to take any of what’s happened too seriously. Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what I should have done differently, or what’s going to happen next. If you ask me exactly what the deals I’m about to describe all add up to in the end, I’m not sure I have a very good answer. Except that I’ve had a very good time making them.
Trump, Donald J.; Schwartz, Tony (2009-12-18). Trump: The Art of the Deal (Kindle Locations 813-818). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Narrative goes to Trump; the opposite of Ted, who tried tonight to make out a narrative of Trump being a media darling. Just because there’s a lot of steer manure in TX doesn’t mean a guy’s gotta have it for his brains.
That was a lame stab, Ted; and I like you, always have.
Thanks.
The point was that there was nothing sinister at all about it.
When I started the caucus, I thought Cruz might be in the lead here.
Evenin’, guys.
Helluva night, ain’t it?
You betcha. Bull and I were glad to give Doughty a hand with the caucus. It’s been a lot of fun.
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