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We did the math. Cruz was smart to campaign in a Bronx district with almost no Republican voters.
The Washington Post's Monkey Cage ^
| April 19, 2016
| Tobias Konitzer and David Rothschild
Posted on 04/19/2016 6:07:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz came to the Bronx to campaign in the run-up to the New York primary, ridicule was not far away. After all, what is a Republican candidate doing in the staunchly Democratic, minority-majority northern part of New York City? What is he doing in New York State at all, when Donald Trump is nearly certain to carry the most votes and, according to market-based forecasts, has an 85 percent chance to win more than 50 percent of the vote?
Why would Ted Cruz campaign in the Bronx?
For someone like Cruz to campaign exactly where Republicans are least popular is actually a very reasonable strategy. Thats because 81 of 95 delegates are allocated equally between the 27 congressional districts. While congressional districts are drawn by population size, the number of registered Republicans per district varies widely in New York.
As a consequence, some congressional districts will have their three delegates decided by just a few hundred voters....
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To: sargon
They always seem to forget the South!
That was Cruz territory but he couldn't do anything there.
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posted on
04/19/2016 11:07:03 PM PDT
by
fortheDeclaration
(Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
To: smokingfrog
Trump tells it like it is, he doesn’t pander to anyone.
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posted on
04/19/2016 11:08:42 PM PDT
by
fortheDeclaration
(Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
To: lonestar67
Yea, right and Cruz does!
Like giving Obama fast track authority!
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posted on
04/19/2016 11:09:49 PM PDT
by
fortheDeclaration
(Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
To: UnwashedPeasant
Trump is planning to win the first ballot, because of the voters, unlike Cruz who is plotting to steal the nomination.
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posted on
04/19/2016 11:11:15 PM PDT
by
fortheDeclaration
(Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
To: lonestar67
Saying something over and over again doesn’t make it so.
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posted on
04/19/2016 11:11:48 PM PDT
by
fortheDeclaration
(Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
To: B Knotts
Yes, because he has real character problems!
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posted on
04/19/2016 11:12:25 PM PDT
by
fortheDeclaration
(Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
To: LowOiL
285 votes in 2012 became 1026 votes in 2016 (not quite the same district - the lines changed).
Cruz got approximately 254 votes, Kasich 130, and Trump 642.
Cruz would have needed to hold Trump under 50% in the district to get a delegate.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Funny - proves the hypocrisy that anything Trump does is wrong - even as he leaves Cruz in the dust, and Cruz can do no wrong, even as he chokes on the dust.
It's official - Cruz is now nothing but a spoiler and out to thwart the will of the voters (that's the People he claims to support and believe in - except when they tell him that this isn't his time)
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posted on
04/20/2016 4:06:40 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Brilliant strategy. And zero delegates.
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