Posted on 03/15/2016 6:12:53 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
I’m under the impression that 900 people voted in the contest.
About 900 total votes were cast in Wyoming, Trump got 70.
Something seriously wrong with Wyoming.
“A good start, and indicative of the rest of the day.”
I hope you are right. I am praying that he takes Ohio.
“And on a funnier note: How ironic is it that the Northern Marianas Republicans are NOT Sea Island Republicans!”
Now that is funny.
Only States and DC are Constitutionally eligible to vote for President and Vice President (see Article II, Section 1, Clause 2, 12th Amendment, and 23rd Amendment). The Democratic and Republican parties allow territories to vote in their respective nomination processes.
Trump won a caucus?
Must be Cruz wasn’t aware there was one there, seeing as he mysteriously seem to win caucus’.
From sea to shining sea and all the islands within.
So Kasich got 10 votes and Cruz 5?
Is it true that when they all rushed into the single polling place, the island tipped over? Inquiring Democrats want to know.
#7. Please don’t say “landslide” to people who live on small islands. It will scare them.
Why the Marianas were important to Donald Trump, and no other candidate is likely to win the threshold:
Already Trump had won the GOP nominee threshold of having 100% of the delegates in 8 states, as per Rule 40 B:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3409540/posts
“The Northern Marianas are a collection of 15 islands in the Pacific Ocean, located at about the focal point of the Pacific Rim. It’s a U.S. territory, 179 square miles of land — an area smaller than New York City — that happens to jut out above the surface of the water. And on Tuesday morning, before you even woke up, it made Donald Trump the first man to qualify for the Republican presidential nomination.
See, in the Northern Marianas, Tuesday began 14 hours before it began on the East Coast. So its Super Threesday caucus was done overnight, and Trump won all nine delegates. In doing so, the Northern Marianas became the eighth state or territory in which Trump won a majority of the delegates. (The others: South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Hawaii and Mississippi.) And according to the rules of the Republican convention, a candidate must “demonstrate the support of a majority of the delegates from each of eight (8) or more states, severally, prior to the presentation of the name of that candidate for nomination.” No eight states, no nomination.
That’s the fabled Rule 40, which governs how the nomination process works, down to the length of time allotted candidates who wish to speak about their nominations. The eight-state thing is in Section B of the rule, and it is a pretty high bar to meet. (The party’s rules count territories as states under Rule 1.) After all, it’s not that Trump hasn’t won at least eight states; he has. But only in eight (including the Marianas) does he have a majority of delegates. In the others he has won — New Hampshire, Nevada, Arkansas, Vermont, Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana and Michigan — he has a plurality of delegates. Not good enough.”
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