Exit poll: Third of GOP voters would mull third party over Trump vs. Clinton

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/273138-poll-over-a-third-of-gop-voters-would-consider-third-party-candidate-in ^

[JediJones]

I’m not sure how the rules would be interpreted in that case. Winning the state could count as a win for purposes of this rule.

[JediJones]

That’s exactly how I felt about Trump going in. I always vote straight Republican in the general though and will continue to do so unless a true conservative Tea Party forms.

[Ingtar]

Many of the rules influencing this year are the ones Romney rammed through after winning the last time.

[JediJones]

How the heck could Cruz control what the Supreme Court decided? You want to tell me you’re such a hard-liner that you want sodomy banned, but you don’t care that Trump’s son and daughter who he praises constantly both came for legalizing same-sex marriage? And that Trump told Howard Stern he’s against same-sex marriage now but could change his mind? And that Trump publically congratulated Elton John on his same-sex marriage and said they were a wonderful couple?

[JediJones]

Pennsylvania are also unbound totally. 54 delegates there.

[lodi90]

Cruz declined to try the homo case before the Supreme Court as Texas Solicitor General. He obviously calculated it would be bad for his career. How principled and conservative of him.

[CodeToad]

I would vote Trump in a 3rd party in a heartbeat. NOTHING is making me vote eGOP right now. Trump is the only reason for a GOP candidate getting my vote.

I am done with the eGOP and their establishment candidates that promise everything and deliver nothing.

Cruz: “Give us the Senate and we will repeal ObamaCare!”
Us: “OK, here is the Senate.”
Cruz “Never mind, we need even more!”

[JediJones]

If you think it’s Cruz’ fault Obamacare wasn’t repealed...you’re really off your rocker.

[JediJones]

Texas did take the case to the Supreme Court. Why does Cruz have to be involved in every case personally? To say him not being the particular lawyer arguing that case means he’s somehow for same-sex marriage is just ridiculous.

Going back this many years on Trump, we find he was funding Democrats and going on TV backing Hillary and amnesty and abortion, etc. Just hilarious your hypocrisy that you can dig up strange non-issues decades back in Cruz’ record but Trump’s clear actions and statements at the same time mean nothing to you.

[CodeToad]

“If you think it’s Cruz’ fault Obamacare wasn’t repealed”

Cruz claimed that if we gave them the Senate they’d repeal it. We did, they didn’t.

Sorry, pal, his promises broken, not mine.

[Blue Jays]

I support both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz as my belief is either of them would be superior to Hillary Clinton as a POTUS.
It would be disconcerting if the GOPe somehow foists someone like Romney on us yet again.
The idea that the Uniparty dislikes both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz leads me to believe those gentlemen are making the correct Washington, D.C. people very uncomfortable.

[Blue Jays]

Good post. Concur with you completely that primaries should be absolutely closed.
If one changes his/her affiliation they should need to keep that affiliation for at least a calendar year.
One could make the case the person should need to retain that new affiliation for even four years.
The main point is "crossovers" should not be determining candidates for either party.

[dfwgator]

Where’s the second party?

[Hugin]

Trump isn’t attracting anyone by being squishy. He’s doing it by being a nationalist, something the fake conservatives in the GOP aren’t. And we do need independents, because Republicans are only 25% of the electorate, and indies are 42%. And if the GOP screws Trump out of the nomination they will be a lot less than 25%, including me.