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Donald Trump’s terrible night in Colorado exemplifies his campaign’s Achilles’ heel
The Washington Post's The Fix ^ | April 8, 2016 | Philip Bump

Posted on 04/09/2016 2:48:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Popman

LOL!


61 posted on 04/09/2016 4:16:08 AM PDT by Theo (Trump = French Revolution. Cruz = American Revolution.)
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To: twister881

>The RINOs don’t want Trump more than they don’t want Cruz.

And yet they funding him to the hilt, campaigning for him, and even have the media coordinating their hits on them with Cruz.


62 posted on 04/09/2016 4:16:48 AM PDT by RedWulf
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To: cba123

Then NAME THEM!


63 posted on 04/09/2016 4:18:33 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: RedWulf
Your logic astounds me.

Provide a source.

Haiti fund?
Katrina fund?

(What a "looser")

64 posted on 04/09/2016 4:18:46 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is DC Whispers a sundance blog? It is his style.


65 posted on 04/09/2016 4:19:45 AM PDT by Theo (Trump = French Revolution. Cruz = American Revolution.)
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To: McGruff

They have local conventions who elect delegates, and a final state convention where some further delegates are selected. ALL BY VOTE.

Cruz is likely to sweep all 37 Colorado delegates.


66 posted on 04/09/2016 4:20:31 AM PDT by John Valentine ( Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: Mechanicos
Your logic astounds me.

In effect, you just threw nearly every union member under the bus.

("looser")

67 posted on 04/09/2016 4:20:46 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: Theo

Could be. Sure sounds similar.


68 posted on 04/09/2016 4:21:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: John Valentine

>They have local conventions who elect delegates, and a final state convention where some further delegates are selected. ALL BY VOTE.

So if I vote for a local delegate who says he’s for Trump and that local delegate votes for Cruz at the convention... how exactly did my vote mater?


69 posted on 04/09/2016 4:22:46 AM PDT by RedWulf
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There are people on payrolls here, but most shills work for free. This is the worst campaign season I can remember.


70 posted on 04/09/2016 4:23:21 AM PDT by antidisestablishment (If Washington was judged with the same standard as Sodom, it would not exist.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Trump likker is wearing off and folks are waking up with the New York pig in their beds and screaming “OMG!!!”


71 posted on 04/09/2016 4:23:34 AM PDT by Happy Rain (CRUZ 2016 "Closest thing we have to Reagan." Rush Limbaugh)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nobody actually voted. Some victory.


72 posted on 04/09/2016 4:24:35 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: McGruff

See this for explanation of Colorado, another Trump stumble and bumble. Lookin’ more and more like Trump is something of a rube; a bumbler. Nothing at all like his carefully honed public image of confidence and competence. What’s the old story about the delusional Duke walking around with no clothes on?

http://www.redstate.com/diary/apkyletexas/2016/04/08/boom-cruz-crushin-colorado.-21-21-far/


73 posted on 04/09/2016 4:26:25 AM PDT by John Valentine ( Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: antidisestablishment

> This is the worst campaign season I can remember.

It’s going to get worse. Cruz’s troll army and data driven approach is the wave of the future for politics. Trump’s campaign may be the last clean campaign we ever see.


74 posted on 04/09/2016 4:26:57 AM PDT by RedWulf
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, you are seriously wrong on this. Ted is now completely funded by the GOPe.

To continue to claim he is an “outsider” free of PAC control is now a complete fraud.


75 posted on 04/09/2016 4:28:39 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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76 posted on 04/09/2016 4:28:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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77 posted on 04/09/2016 4:28:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: RedWulf

It would matter the same as if you voted for Trump and HE threw you under the bus instead of his surrogate.

Besides, so far your fellow Trumpites in Colorado have not managed to elect even one local delegate, so your question is entirely hypothetical.


78 posted on 04/09/2016 4:29:23 AM PDT by John Valentine ( Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: cba123
Trump is supported by AMERICANS Democrat crossovers that will be supporting sHrillary in the General election and LIV's calling themselves Republicans. Fixed it for you.
79 posted on 04/09/2016 4:29:27 AM PDT by verga (Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.)
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You have to go far into the articles to read anything relevant:

Colorado’s delegate selection process is a messy one, thanks to a variety of causes. (FrontloadingHQ’s Josh Putnam, whose site is an invaluable resource on the rules guiding the Republican contests, has a distinct air of exasperation as the Colorado process is explained.)

Our Ed O’Keefe outlined it in detail on Wednesday. In short, the state’s individual congressional districts and, on Saturday, the state as a whole, hold votes to pick delegates to attend July’s national convention in Cleveland. Those delegates have either declared their intent to support a candidate or not, meaning that they are either bound to support a candidate or they aren’t. It’s bound delegates that Trump wants, because he needs to enter Cleveland with as close to a solid, unwavering majority as he can get. If he shows up with 1,100 bound delegates and 140 unbound ones, the Republican Party will do everything it can to get those 140 to change their minds. The convention isn’t a Super Bowl, played on neutral ground. It’s Stalingrad, and Trump doesn’t want a siege.


80 posted on 04/09/2016 4:30:32 AM PDT by McGruff (The Republican elite would rather see Hillary Clinton president than Donald Trump.)
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