Posted on 03/15/2016 11:22:57 PM PDT by WilliamIII
From now on, even tiny Trump pluralities (like the one we’re seeing just barely in Missouri, barring some magical Cruz precincts) will net him enormous shares of delegates.
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There are only 7 winner take all contests after tonight worth a grand total of 274 delegates.
Bernie winning Michigan made Nate not look like a total fool with his Trump hate.
Recommend readying a fine bottle of your favorite luxury vintage for Nate’s final Twitter meltdown.
Do not shove your head under the sand. Did you notice what happened in Missouri today? With a tiny lead of 0.3%, Trump gets 85% of delegates. Why? Because many states are WINNER TAKES MOST rules.
Trump is a big beneficiary of the rules enacted after Romney.
I don’t understand, Cruz knocked Rubio out yet didn’t win Florida. How did that work? lol
From the link:
“Up until today, Trump had won 42 percent of all GOP delegates with just 34 percent of the vote. By my estimate tonight, it appears he’s on track to win about 67 percent of the delegates at stake, even though he’s averaged only a hair over 40 percent of today’s votes. That’s a huge disparity.”
CNN’s exit polls make me giggle, though I suspect Nate isn’t experiencing the same reaction.
CNN projected MO in its exit poll for Cruz and one wonders whether the absentee and provisional ballots left to be counted will change the apparent win for Trump.
For the most part they were dead on accurate. There might be something in MO they missed. We’ll see when the final votes are tabulated in the morning.
Do not shove your head under the sand. Did you notice what happened in Missouri today? With a tiny lead of 0.3%, Trump gets 85% of delegates. Why? Because many states are WINNER TAKES MOST rules.
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When the margin is less than .05% either candidate can request a recount. Last I saw, it was only .02% difference.
Trump is set to win AZ. Cruz will probably take UT.
Not liking Kasich is fair enough, but he clearly isn’t ‘despised’ in Ohio. He has just won the primary and has high approval ratings there.
Not that it will do him any good, but we need to be fair...
My post largely referred as to the voter demographics for Trump and the other candidates.
I love schadenfreude!!!!!
Florida specifically changed its rules for this election......to winner take all....
...specifically with .....JEB .....in mind!!!!!!
Late voters perhaps.....
.....blistering under Cruz endorsement of street thugs over citizens rights
Ferguson, Missouri is still fresh in their minds,
I don't know where you get this. I believe his popularity ratings among Ohio residents are very high. I was just out in Ohio last week, and most of the people I was dealing with -- most of whom have no obvious political persuasion -- are quite favorable to him.
Oddly enough, a lot of them said they wouldn't support him in the GOP primary because they thought he was more effective as the governor of Ohio than he'd ever be as president.
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