Heil Cruzler
Posted on 04/06/2016 3:09:16 AM PDT by John W
Donald Trump’s victories in the Republican primaries may make him seem like a sure winner. But those victories have been achieved by receiving either somewhat less than 40 percent of the votes or somewhat more than 40 percent, but never a majority.
The fragmenting of the Republican vote among many candidates in the primaries made this possible. But victory in the general election for president of the United States in November is going to require a lot more than 40 percent of the votes. And polls consistently show Mr. Trump to be the most negatively regarded of any of the candidates in either party.
In some Republican winner-take-all states, 40 percent of the votes can be enough to get 100 percent of the delegates. This leverage might enable Trump to gain a majority of the delegates needed to become the party’s nominee. But Trump and his supporters want more. They are now talking as if winning a plurality of the delegates ought to be enough to gain him the nomination, despite his failing to get a majority, as required by long-standing rules.
There is a reason why the rules require a candidate for the nomination to receive a majority of the delegates. If you cannot even get a majority of the delegates in your own party, how can you expect to win the November election for president?
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Great points.
When I look at the recent primaries/caucus, I don’t share the same animosity against one or another candidate.
I’m looking for their values and how they tend to think in response to adversity. I also am looking at the numbers to measure the political temperature of the nation.
The personal crap is bothersome because it is noise to issues that matter. The “LyinTed” mantra is good for nothingness. It only promotes a lust for approbation by Trump. He’s missing lessons to be learned and valuable corrections in his path.
OTH, even though Cruz won, there also is a sizable contingent who are still motivated by Trump. Cruz needs to also learn from that statistic. The Trump supporters aren’t all voting for Trump’s “New York Values”. They first recognize a need for moxie from a center of gravity.
We need the best of both.
Reminder: Even MORE have voted against Kasich.
A whole lot of Dems registered GOP to vote in our primary. period. Now, the article you linked to is a polling of democratic general election likely voters. general election voters are a whole lot different than primary voters. The article you posted suggests that a lot of the democratic general electorate would, in fact, crossover and vote for Donald Trump in a general election. The Democratic primary voters do not want to give them that option. the Democratic primary electorate is not helping Donald Trump, they’re clearly afraid of him.
we charge them with finding a nominee that is acceptable to the majority of Republican voters regardless of whom they voted for in the primary.
Reince-is that you..? Didn’t know you posted here...
Dems are crossing over into our primary and voting against him. It happened in Ohio and it just happened in Wisconsin.
Even more voted against Cruz.
Per usual, Trump-haters fail to realize (or even recognize) those Republican votes Trump has ALREADY received.
The very premise of this article starts out reflecting on ACTUAL performance to note Trump’s seeming 40% limit (in the face of a three way race)- it is in the doggone title!, and then proceeds on with the speculation of polls to kick the ball on what they think is “home.”
You are “well aware” of Ted Cruz’ even worse performance with the Republican voter base yet this article suspiciously doesn’t even mention his name.
Wrap it all up with your condescending little “we charge them with finding...... blah, blah” and you’ve got a nice little hit piece package there that Ted can get it all if we all just hate Trump enough. Good luck with that.
The northeast primaries could change all that.
And far more have voted against Cruz as well!
They can just vote for her as Republicans.
So?
actually not here in this swing state they are not and you forget conveniently that non party blue collar Reagan Dems and no party want trump and will stay with Trump
Talk to us next week after Cruz gets smashed in NY.
The rules are there to keep 30% of Republicans from bulldozing a candidate that 70% of Republicans find unacceptable as a nominee in a race with a wide field.
regardless of who we voted or in the primary.
Holy crap are you the leader of the establishment , . To hell with voters who they want right in your mind. WOW.
When Trump waves like that he is called Hitler and giving a NAZI salute
Fail #1: They didn’t vote against him the voted FOR someone else
Fail#2: Using the logic more people have voted against Cruz than Trump
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