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*LIVE 3/8/16 GOP Primary Thread (MI, MS, ID, HI)*
self | 3/8/16 | tatown

Posted on 03/08/2016 5:24:01 AM PST by tatown

Hawaii · 19 delegates Last poll closes at 11:00 PM CT

Idaho · 32 delegates Last poll closes at 10:00 PM CT

Michigan · 59 delegates Last poll closes at 8:00 PM CT

Mississippi · 40 delegates Last poll closes at 7:00 PM CT


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii; US: Idaho; US: Michigan; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: 2016gopprimary; cruz; gop; hawaii; idaho; mi2016; michigan; mississippi; primary; republican; republicans; rubio; trump
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To: eyedigress

I think they have written off FL. NC is proportional, but no matter. The “expert”’s point was that the party needs to keep all the opponents in play, and nibble at the delegates in all the states that are not winner take all. The problem is that it will be obvious that Rubio and Kasich can’t win, so their ONLY purpose for staying in would be to block Trump. It would be deliberate disunity.


1,861 posted on 03/08/2016 9:13:01 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: BlueNgold

Dana is the establishment.


1,862 posted on 03/08/2016 9:13:29 PM PST by katykelly
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To: mtrott

Cruz would NOT run the table in the remaining states if it were Trump vs Cruz. No way.


1,863 posted on 03/08/2016 9:13:32 PM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: M. Thatcher

The problem with that plan is that I don’t see Trump losing either IF they stay in. The establishment is handing Trump the nomination with their strategy.


1,864 posted on 03/08/2016 9:13:41 PM PST by gore_sux (Ellison's Minnesotastan = America's terrorist training haven)
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To: over3Owithabrain

God Bless Mississippi!

Making me proud and going strong for Mr Trump!


1,865 posted on 03/08/2016 9:13:46 PM PST by CharleysPride
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To: E20erer

By the time Super Tuesday rolled around, Trump was firmly in charge, leading in polls of each of the Super Tuesday States, except for Texas.

So while Cruz had built his campaign around a strong Super Tuesday, those who could actually read the polls knew that Trump would win the lion’s share of delegates. The fact that Cruz won the one State he was supposed to, and by a larger margin than he polled I might add (he led by 9 points in the polls and won by 13), allowed him to meet the admittedly dismal expectations of the day. When he added Oklahoma and Alaska to his win column, that breathed new life into his campaign.

So on Super Tuesday, when it actually rolled around, Cruz did better than expected.

By contrast, he came in 3rd place to Rubio in South Carolina and tarnished his message of “the alternative to Trump.” He regained that message on Super Tuesday.

That’s why South Carolina was his low point.


1,866 posted on 03/08/2016 9:14:03 PM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

because a lot of innocent people get hurt in fires?


1,867 posted on 03/08/2016 9:14:24 PM PST by reed13k (w)
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To: NYRepublican72

any word on the projected allocation for MI?


1,868 posted on 03/08/2016 9:14:28 PM PST by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: Cold Heat

Obama was a 1st term US Senator with elective experience in State politics.

In other words the exact same experience as Cruz and Rubio

So you best find a new attack line cause that one just blew up in your face.


1,869 posted on 03/08/2016 9:14:38 PM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: goldstategop

Question is, did Cruz win Id or did Romney?


1,870 posted on 03/08/2016 9:15:07 PM PST by Rational Thought
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To: jsdjason

Right now it looks like Rubio gets ZERO delegate tonight but HI will not be in until way early am


1,871 posted on 03/08/2016 9:15:40 PM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: mtrott

I do not see it that way. Because almost all remaining primaries are winner takes all. Kasich & Rubio & Cruz will divide the voters between themselves, and Trump will win most of those. Also there are no more caucus states remaining AFAIK.


1,872 posted on 03/08/2016 9:15:53 PM PST by entropy12 (When you vote, you are actually voting for the rich donors!)
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To: goldstategop

Well yay, good for Cruz. It would have been embarassing if he’d lost to Trump who hadn’t even visited the state. And when Trump or Cruz win, the GOPe is denied, and that’s all good!


1,873 posted on 03/08/2016 9:16:04 PM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: jsdjason
Will Little Marco get any delegates tonight? Go Ted Cruz!

He probably will in Hawaii, unless he finishes fourth. The 13 statewide delegates there are proportional, but if you end up with a fractional it gets rounded up no matter how low it is. (e.g. 3.1 delegates = 4). That could shut Rubio out.

The two CDs there will likely go 2/1 to 1st, 2nd. So Rubio can get a delegate there if he finishes 2nd in a CD.

Little Marco has been shut out in MS and MI and it's not looking promising in ID.

1,874 posted on 03/08/2016 9:16:05 PM PST by NYRepublican72 (Democrats -- it's always someone else's fault.)
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To: Rational Thought

Decision desk has Cruz as taking Idaho.

http://www.decisiondeskhq.com/march-8th-gop/


1,875 posted on 03/08/2016 9:16:12 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: MNJohnnie
AP is calling Idaho for Cruz.

-PJ

1,876 posted on 03/08/2016 9:16:17 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: dragnet2
You should be honored.

Thanks, I am. It is among several of my Cubanadian/Alberta voter quips.

1,877 posted on 03/08/2016 9:16:48 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Ohhhh....Derka derka derka)
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To: Rational Thought

Please read post 1869. Our grumpy puppy for Cruz just walked face first into a fact wall.


1,878 posted on 03/08/2016 9:16:49 PM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: MNJohnnie

CNN projecting Cruz will gain 5 delegates in Idaho over Trump.


1,879 posted on 03/08/2016 9:17:02 PM PST by Rational Thought
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To: MNJohnnie; All

Cruz got Idaho. Not a big loss. Trump got the big ones tonight. No telling what will happen in Hawaii.

The Bush/Cruz alliance coming out before next Tuesday will not be good for Cruz...and these are states he isn’t projected to do well in anyway.

Sure is interesting to watch.


1,880 posted on 03/08/2016 9:17:34 PM PST by Shortstop7
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