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But he has gotten more votes than you have, even in a three man race, Ted.

But don't you understand? Cruz is in the best position to win.

I hope that in June both the Trump thread and Cruz thread get locked and nuked, and we start a defeat Hillary thread.

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But he has gotten more votes than you have, even in a three man race, Ted.

But don't you understand? Cruz is in the best position to win.

Is it the common core math, or I am one of those low informed stupid ass. I seriously doubt Cruz can beat the evil bitch.

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But don't you understand? Cruz is in the best position to win.

I thought that spot was held by Kasich.

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Ted Cruz: "Donald consistently has been a fringe and marginal candidate getting about a third of the vote,” adding,” He cannot earn a majority across the country"

But he has gotten more votes than you have, even in a three man race, Ted.

I'm not sure if Ted Cruz or his followers realize how stupid they sound when they talk about how the guy that is cleary beating them shouldn't win because he isn't beating them badly enough. If they'd stop shoveling the bullshit all over the place, maybe they'd realize that. At some point it went from "Ted is so great" to "Donald is so bad". It went from "we're gonna win" to "the other guy is gonna beat us but not by enough!" Then talk about Trump being unelectable, while making a huge deal about a bathroom scene that most Americans just dont care about and will alienate the party further. Then sit there so stupidly and say Trump has a problem with women and hispanics, when Trump beats them in those groups. Fantasy and delusion.

^

Hence why argue. They are so out of reality and only hope to steal it at the convention.


That is their big hope and plan. Done with idiots, done with the Republican Party.

Our system is Broke and it's time to shake shit up.

All they do in that thread is ignore reality. Trump's bitch slap is
Yuuuuuuuuge!

Cool it, please.

If these two new polls are right, Trump wins



For those of us counting the Republican delegate math in the past few weeks, two states have long seemed the most uncertain and the most consequential for Donald Trump's hopes of locking down a majority: California and Indiana.

And two new polls from Fox News show Trump winning both.

In California, the poll shows Trump with a massive lead — 49 percent of the vote, to Ted Cruz's 22 percent and John Kasich's 20 percent. In Indiana, things are closer but Trump is still ahead, with 41 percent to Cruz's 33 percent and Kasich's 16 percent.

If these two polls are correct, it looks like it will be game over for the #NeverTrump-ers. Solid wins for Trump in both states would likely result in him clinching a majority of delegates by the time primary voting concludes. And, barring unprecedented shenanigans with the rules, that would allow him to avoid a contested convention and win the GOP nomination on the first ballot.
Trump's path to a majority is still difficult

California and Indiana are particularly important to Trump's path to a delegate majority, because they're the two biggest remaining delegate-heavy states where the outcome has appeared really uncertain.

In contrast, most of the other states either seem easily set to go to either Trump or Cruz, or to split their delegates between them due to their delegate allocation rules. For instance:

Trump is expected to clean up in the Northeastern states voting this Tuesday (and in New Jersey, which votes in June), particularly after his extremely strong New York showing.
Cruz is expected to get all the delegates from winner-take-all Nebraska, Montana, and South Dakota due to his strength in similar nearby states.
Several of the other states remaining (Washington, Oregon, New Mexico) allocate their delegates proportionally, so it's highly likely both Trump and Cruz (and perhaps Kasich) will get some.
And Pennsylvania and West Virginia both have odd systems where they elect delegates directly on the ballot. No one quite knows how this will play out in practice, but though Trump polls well in both states, these confusing rules may well depress his delegate haul somewhat.

All in all, if these state outcomes break down like this, Trump will likely still be 160 to 180 delegates away from a majority. And there are 229 delegates at stake in California and Indiana.
Why California and Indiana matter most

California and Indiana have been major question marks in delegate math projections for a while, and it's long seemed that the question of whether Trump gets his majority could come down to the two of them.

Both allot their delegates winner-take-all (though some are allotted to the statewide winner, and some to the winner in each congressional district), so they're really important.
California has the most delegates of any state, with 172 — but broad-based strength across the state is important, since 159 of those are given out in separately each of the state's 53 Congressional districts (3 delegates in each).
Indiana's 57 delegates — 30 to the statewide winner, 27 in districts — are nothing to sneeze at either.
Yet these states have appeared the most uncertain, because it hasn't been clear how Trump would play on the West Coast, or whether Indiana would look more like the Midwestern states Cruz has won (Wisconsin, Iowa) or the Midwestern states Trump has won (Illinois, Michigan).

But these new polls — and a few other recent ones — seem to clear up some of that uncertainty. Trump has led every recent publicly released poll in both states. Another California poll released this week showed Trump leading in every region of the state, which would likely position him to pick up the vast majority of those Congressional district delegates.

Now, these polls could of course be wrong. For instance, there's been very little public polling in Indiana, which votes on May 3, and there have been reports that some private polls show a tied race there. And some other recent California polls show a closer contest, though all show Trump ahead.

But unless something big changes, unless these polls are very wrong, or unless there's some sort of convention rules coup, this points toward a first ballot victory for Donald Trump.

Trump may be the Republican nominee, but he will not be the next Republican president. Instead he will usher in a far left liberal reign that will be felt for generations.

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Trump may be the Republican nominee, but he will not be the next Republican president.
Instead he will usher in a far left liberal reign that will be felt for generations.

Thank you Carnac.

^^

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Thank you Carnac.

No problem. I'm here all day. Don't forget to tip your waitress

Hey! That's not Carnac

Nope. That ain't Carnac. But it sure as shit is YUUUUUGE!

Understanding Donald Trump

The art of his deal

By Newt Gingrich - - Thursday, January 7, 2016

Donald Trump is a genuine phenomenon.

He may or may not become the Republican nominee for president.

He may or may not win the presidency even if he becomes the nominee.

Yet it is clear that he is a phenomenon and that any history of the 2016 presidential race will have to spend a good bit of time analyzing Mr. Trump and his impact.

From the time he announced on June 16, Mr. Trump has dominated social and mainstream media. He dominates the conversation despite the lack of paid advertising.

Mr. Trump says outrageous things and his supporters shrug it off. At every turn, his poll numbers continue to rise.

As a step toward understanding this amazing performance, I spent part of the Christmas break reading his first bestseller, “The Art of the Deal.”

Written in 1987, this book is a classic among American business books and has influenced a generation of entrepreneurs.

Mr. Trump wrote “The Art of the Deal” when he was 41 years old and having a successful run. The book’s popularity contributed to Time Magazine’s decision to feature Donald Trump on its cover in January 1989.

The portrait that emerges from this easy-to-read and remarkably interesting book is of an aggressive, ambitious person who is constantly pushing, constantly learning, and always seeking the next challenge.

Reporters and analysts who are trying to understand Mr. Trump would be well served by slowing down and reading this nearly three-decade-old bestseller.

They would discover that Donald Trump has developed a remarkable set of rules and principles that allow him to make decisions with incredible speed.

Mr. Trump knows a lot, but what is amazing is how rapidly he figures out what he doesn’t know.

My favorite story is of the Wollman Skating Rink in New York’s Central Park.

The Wollman Rink was a heavily used public skating rink which had fallen into disrepair in 1980.

New York City tried for six years to fix it, spent $13 million, and the rink still was not ready to open.

In June of 1986 Mr. Trump, who could see the rink from his apartment, finally got tired of the embarrassment and offered to fix the rink at his own expense.

At first the city turned him down because its bureaucracy did not want to be embarrassed by someone fixing something they couldn’t fix. Mr. Trump kept pushing and finally out of embarrassment the city gave in.

The key part of the story is Mr. Trump’s reaction to being put in charge. He promptly recognized that he didn’t know anything about fixing a skating rink. He asked himself who built a lot of skating rinks. “Canadians!” he concluded. He found the best Canadian ice skating rink construction company.

When the Canadians flew in to assess the situation, they were amazed at how bad the city had been at solving the problem. They assured Mr. Trump that this was an easy job.

Mr. Trump fixed the 6-year-old embarrassment two months ahead of schedule and nearly $800,000 under budget. (The city did end up paying for the work, and Mr. Trump donated the profits to charity.)

After reading this chapter you begin to think that maybe Donald Trump really could build a wall along our southern border for a lot less than our current government estimates.

“The Art of the Deal” is filled with stories like this — stories of common sense stories of calculated risk taking, and stories of innovation and marketing.

Anyone who would like to better understand Donald Trump would be helped by reading this remarkable book.

http://www.washingtontimes.com...nald-trump/?page=all

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Cruz and Kasich form "Anti-Trump" alliance

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...trump-delegates.html

Trump certainly wins now.

Good.