Posted on 03/17/2016 12:58:03 PM PDT by detective
They said the same crap in 2000.
Very interesting. So, they are conceding he is the nominee, and further conceding he will win the election.
The commitment of which you speak never reached the threshold for implementation. Even had it reached that threshold, Congress would have had to approve such an interstate compact. Neither condition was reached.
Let’s see now. Michigan, Florida, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Nevada are hardly states I would call liberal. And who won those states? Well, it wasn’t Cruz was it? Yeah, your guy has won mostly in already red states like Idaho, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and his home state of Texas. States that even losers like McCain and Romney carried. In Ohio and Florida, states that are important in November, Cruz didn’t even get 20%. He’s a regional candidate at best and would get clobbered in November if by some miracle he was nominated.
Actually I do mention it, but not the way the tediban does.
I approach it this way; you have to win a certain number of purple states to win the general election. Has Teddy even made it to second place in OH or FL or VA? He hasn’t. So how pray tell does he win those same states in the general when his own party doesn’t even think he’s even worthy of second place?
He doesn’t. And that is why DT has a possible path to the white house while Teddy doesn’t.
“Curious, isn’t it, that the most conservative states so far (TX, OK, WY, ID) have all gone to Cruz, and all of the most liberal have been Trump’s biggest totals (MASS was his high mark at 49.3%)... and Trump supporters do not mention this one bit.”
South Carolina is not liberal.
Georgia is not liberal.
Alabama is not liberal.
Mississippi is not liberal.
Louisiana is not liberal.
Arkansas is not liberal.
Kentucky is not liberal.
Your statement that Trump ONLY wins liberal states is demonstrably FALSE. Trump wins both liberal and conservative states.
Conversely, Cruz isn’t competitive in ANY non-conservative states.
I suggest you go to Mark Steyn’s site and read his article on the electoral college. Cruz is running the same strategy as W in 2000. That means he’ll have to win every state in what forms an L-shape running down the midwest and across the south. If he loses 1 state (it doesn’t matter which one) in the L-shape he can’t win the election.
It’s the political equivalent of making 10 the hard way—a longshot.
20 million PO’d voters could stop the electoral college.
Especially if he gets less than 270 electoral votes.
Washington Post: It’s not Fascism when we do it.
Post #43. The liberals never got close to their goal.
“They said the same crap in 2000.”
No, this is very different. They are recommending that even if Trump wins the popular vote in a state that the legislators award the electors to a different candidate.
You need to read the article. He is suggesting that the state legislatures take back the role of appointing the electors themselves, rather than use the popular vote, and then appoint electors who would vote for a 3rd candidate in the Electoral College, denying any of the candidates a majority. The election would then go to the House, with each state getting one vote. They can only choose among the top 3 electoral vote recipients. It is unorthodox, but would be constitutionally permissible. SCOTUS has already held that the state legislatures can choose whatever method they like to appoint the electors, and the federal courts have no say in the matter.
Music? Why would they even say such a thing-it is desperate and insane-I crank up AC/DC and other angry metal and stuff on the stereo after work and jam all the way home-and I have yet to experience the irresistible urge to flip off a customer that didn’t take my bid, use my truck to run other drivers off the road, or participate in satanic rituals...
They are increasingly like Gollum, who, between every few words, chokes “Stop Trump,” hack hack, “Stop Trump.”
They’re suggesting that even if Trump wins all fifty states that the electoral college give the victory to someone else.
Oh please WaPo.
But it is increasingly likely that we will reach precisely the kind of scenario that the founders worried about — divisive political discourse threatens to thrust a dangerous candidate into office who appears inclined to govern more like a monarch than a president.
Yep, we sure got that president in Obama.
Stuck in the Bargaining Stage. Acceptance eludes. This has been sublime, watching eggheads and gurus crapping their pants over the possibility of Trump becoming President.
“Most likely, but it ain’t over yet. If Kasich drops out, Cruz has a shot... but again, most likely, it is Trump”
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