Posted on 02/09/2016 12:32:49 PM PST by Jeff Head
Edited on 02/09/2016 4:43:07 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Here's a LIVE THREAD for the NH Primary results this evening.
We will know soon enough and we can keep track it right here.
How quick will they call it? I expect between 7:30 and 8 PM the race will be called in NH tonight.
I just guzzled a bottle of hard cider.
and going to do it again!
Actually, there are only about a dozen true "winner-take-all" states. The rest are either proportional (usually with some threshold for getting delegates) or are a hybrid, with the winner of each congressional district getting delegates, and with the overall state winner getting additional delegates. That is why it is going to be hard for anyone to get a majority of delegates before the convention if we have a three-way race.
It would be quite the contrast - with me taking the Conservative position, and Trump taking the opposite position.
Nah, you’re not polluting anything. It’s just banter. It’s all good. I wouldn’t want this site to be about every poster feeling the same way.
It’s what keeps life interesting.
Yes, and if you go below 10%, you get ZERO delegates.
And that is a hard number. No rounding off from 9.99 to 10.
Hmmmm, guess you are using Austin as the basis for your opinion?
At least Mitt Romney would be to the right of Donald Trump.
Here you go. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in anonymous, money laundered campaign donations to Cruz’s Super PAC.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/06/politics/ted-cruz-super-pac/index.html
I would laugh pretty hard if Ted didn’t crack 10%. I’m almost certain he will, but it would be a nice extra slice of humble pie. Plus it would drive some of his supporters so nuts they’d probably start camping out on street corners waving snakes around to prove their unshaken faith.
That is correct!
At least Trump would have the stones to slap Candy Crowley into the next county. Mitt just sat there and smiled.
The Texas rules are a little more complicated than that:
108 district delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based on the primary results in each of the 36 congressional districts: each congressional district is assigned 3 National Convention delegates. These delegates are allocated to the presidential contenders as follows:
If a candidate receives a majority of the vote (more than 50%), that candidate is allocated all 3 of the district's delegates. [General Rules for All Conventions and Meetings. Rule 38. Section 8.a. and 8.b.]
If no candidate receives a majority of the vote and at least 1 candidate receives 20% or more of the vote, the candidate with the most votes (plurality) receives 2 delegates and the candidate receiving the next highest number of votes receives 1 delegate. [Rule 38. Section 8.b.]
If no candidate receives 20% of the vote then the top 3 vote getters each receive 1 delegate. [Rule 38. Section 8.c.]
47 at-large delegates (10 base at-large delegates plus 34 bonus delegates plus 3 RNC delegates) are to be allocated to the presidential contenders based on the primary results statewide. These delegates are allocated to the presidential contenders as follows:
If a candidate receives a majority of the vote (more than 50%) that candidate is allocated all 47 at-large delegates. [Rule 38. Section 9.a. and 9.b.]
If no candidate receives a majority of the vote and at least 2 candidates receive 20% or more of the vote, the 47 at-large delegates are allocated proportionally among those candidates receiving 20% or more of the vote. Rounding rules: Beginning with the candidate receiving the largest number of votes, round any fraction to the next whole number of delegates. Continue this process with the next highest vote getter and repeat until all the delegates are allocated. [Rule 38. Section 9.b.]
If no candidate receives a majority of the vote and only 1 candidate receives 20% or more of the vote, the 47 at-large delegates are allocated proportionally between the candidate receiving 20% or more of the vote and the candidate receiving the next highest number of votes. Rounding rules: Beginning with the candidate receiving the largest number of votes, round any fraction to the next whole number of delegates. Continue this process with the next highest vote getter and repeat until all the delegates are allocated. [Rule 38. Section 9.b.]
If no candidate receives 20% of the vote, allocate the 47 at-large delegates proportionally. Rounding rules: Beginning with the candidate receiving the largest number of votes, round any fraction to the next whole number of delegates. Continue this process with the next highest vote getter and repeat until all the delegates are allocated. [Rule 38. Section 9.c.]
What an imagination!
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/trump-save-georgia-farm/2015/12/27/id/707239/
Feb. 9, 2016
Trump Saved a Georgia Farm
He cheated in Iowa, once a cheater, always a cheater.
Start?
I am a Cruz supporter...and if that happens...it happens.
I believe he will do better than that. If he got zero delegates and was less than 10% that would be a big hit...but he will go on.
He is going to do very well in several other primaries which he will win.
How many? Can’t say. will it be enough? Probably not, but it could. Things can change from week to week.
Hey, if Trump wins the nomination I will vote for him in a New York minute any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
Against Sanders or Hillary or Bloomberg...I would say the samne about Rubio, Carson, Fiorina, Christi, etc.
Ah, so it wasn’t money donated to Cruz for him to use. Looks like you once again put forth knowingly false information in an attempt to willfully deceive.
I agree, is that a white horse or a pale horse? The difference matters.
Where is that flipping like button when you need it...
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