LIVE SOUTH CAROLINA PRIMARY THREAD 2/20/16

2/20/16 | tatown

[tatown]

Game time.

[central_va]

3 hours 48 minutes to a Trump landslide.

[austingirl]

I agree, I suspect Trump supporters are afraid to take that test and report honestly their results. To take the test, one has to be COMPLETELY honest about conservatism or be exposed as the liberals they are. No two ways about it

Exactly!

[annieokie]

Look I am not going to get into Cruz did this, or Cruz did that.

My post was dealing with only that TEST....try it. Don't try to manipulate it, just answer how you feel about things.

I only had one neutral.....will discuss that one later if I must, don't want to give any clues to persuade anyone.

Just be fair....We are not going to get a Perfect Man, there has only been ONE, we just have to get as close as we can.

[AndyJackson]

The problem with your explanation is that a number of us are scientists or engineers and used to testing a "black box" to see how it works. If, regardless of input, you get the same output, then it has some pretty bizarre filters.

For instance, I voted the extreme liberal ticket, and to my surprise Bernie came out on top. But Bernie is not a liberal, he is a radical. Furthermore, Trump still came out in the middle, and the bottom who should have been Cruz was now Jim Gilmore.

Bernie Sanders 91%
Hillary Clinton 80%
Jim Webb 61%
Ben Carson 34%
Donald Trump 33%
John Kasich 32%
Ted Cruz 23%
Marco Rubio 20%
Jeb Bush 19%
Jim Gilmore 14%

So Trump is a better anti-liberal than he is a conservative, and Jeb and Marco are better anti-liberals than Cruz.

It's utter meaningless blather.

[Salvation]

Can we please get back to accounts about the South Caroline election?

[Fantasywriter]

Even the Trump haters at LegslInsurrection had to concede Trump was most likely in NYC on 9-11. If you read the post, you can feel their pain at having to abandon the ‘Trump lied,’ meme.

[enumerated]

Haha biased is right! I answered truthfully and I got Gilmore at top then Cruz, Rubio, Carson, Bush, Kasich, Clinton, Sanders.

If they added the following two dynamics to the test, Trump would have come out way on top:

1. Rate each candidate from 1-10 regarding your belief that what they promise might actually happen.

2. For each statement, rate from 1-10 how much confidence you have in the creator of the questionnaire to properly ascribe a political position to a candidate.

[ShivaFan]

Looks like they will start to “color” the counties of S.C. and Nevada, it is now just hours away. Well, I guess I will take my shower and get dressed, been glued to all of this while eating coconut cookies and butter milk, which isn’t good for my health. My wife called me (she is in Canada right now visting relatives and so is in Cruz country) to ask how it is going (for Trump, we are for Trump) and to NOT tell me where she hid the coconut cookies which I had texted her about but already found them even if she wasn’t going to tell me.

So soon we will all await the Bush death cackle. It is now a death watch for the Bush campaign.

[AndyJackson]

For some reason it keeps giving me Rubio. LOL!

I think FOXNEWS is busted once again.

[Hoodat]

You will like this:

Trump sees himself in Bernie Sanders

[tumblindice]

“3 hours 48 minutes to a Trump landslide.”

Trump could take it all.
50 delegates are up for grabs. The winner of the statewide plurality will get 29 of those 50. Then the plurality winner in each of the seven congressional districts will get 3 delegates per district won.
Trump’s support is lowest in the Sixth District ... at 29%. The next lowest is the Third District, at 34%.
Under these rules, it is quite likely that Donald Trump will walk away with all 50 delegates, even though he is unlikely to win a majority.

[austingirl]

Why wouldn't you just answer according to your true beliefs and weigh the answers as to the importance you attach to them and then accept that if you are staunch constitutionalist Cruz will most closely match your beliefs?

Your results when you took the survey as a raving liberal had Sanders on top which would seem to validate the survey. Of course I don't know if you weighted the answers which would affect the results. But this is not a push poll.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Good one....the other two are responding...LOL

Ping to #519

[annieokie]

You may have that opinion, but tend to be more optimistic and I will continue to keep trying to get the best of the lot elected.

There are no perfect men or women, there was only ONE. We just have to get as close as we can to that MAN's values and principles, for me that is TED CRUZ.....

Go take the test, be honest about how you feel don't try to manipulate it, if you have those deep conservative thoughts your results will come out TED CRUZ, whether you like it or not.

Hey, I took that test, not knowing what the results would be, and hoped that it would not be TRUMP, but I did answer truthfully.

Hey can't deal with Yesterday, I agree we have been sold out by those we hoped would defend us the "conservatives", but think they weren't Conservatives, just Dem cross overs to kill the Republican party from within.

We can't give up on the Republican Party, we can improve it with men like Ted Cruz. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water, work to make the change.

[mylife]

I know LOL

[tatown]

I guess we’ll all get to see who is doing the blinking in a little over 3.5 hrs.

[austingirl]

That question in the MSNBC Trump show was clever, wasn’t it? It exposed Trump for how he sees himself- he looked in the mirror and saw the raving socialist Bernie looking back at him. Yikes!

[Art in Idaho]

We need our own monster. Ted Cruz may well be as advertised. No one knows. Four years ago, no one knew who he was. He is young, deploy the Trump Bomb now, it is an ugly weapon of mass destruction that will result in some collateral damage, but it is required. Alas, we have run out of time. It will take many Ted Cruz clones to restore order in the aftermath.

Well said. Release the Kraken!

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[annieokie]

Madam/SIR.....I posted to you as your the one that had the TEST link on it.......& I thought perhaps you would be very pleased that someone would click on the link you provided and report back to you, so you wouldn't feel neglected.

It was a good test, for those that profess to be a True conservative the test will reveal that, but they must be truthful.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

Lighten up...this election cycle is both very serious and funny at the same time.

If this election cycle DOES NOT result in at least an attempt to address the concerns of the public/voters (the genuine real-live ones), we all could very well look back on this primary season as the Very Greatest of Good Old Days.

Provided we're still around and able to have that or any other discussion, that is.