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NBC Reporter: Cruz to Win Half Of Pennsylvania's Delegates, "Even If He Comes In Distant Third"

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Posted by Fred 2016-04-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 All rules have been known and in writing since last year. Trump's just been lazy and unorganized at the State level

Posted by Frank G 2016-04-20 08:02|| 2016-04-20 08:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Or perhaps he knew it was an exercise in futility.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-04-20 08:20|| 2016-04-20 08:20|| Front Page Top

#3 the state's unbound delegates

Someone posted here that the Trunks didn't have 'super delegates'. I guess that's not what they call them at least.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-04-20 09:12|| 2016-04-20 09:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Super Delegates are in addition to the regular ones the states are allocated. The Dems added those. GOP has not. PA decided a while back to go with "unbound" for pretty much the same reason Colorado went with a caucus based system: it forces candidates to work grass roots instead of buying the election with TV ads.

Posted by Pholuger Whomonter7187 2016-04-20 09:30|| 2016-04-20 09:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Yep, easier to buy 54 people than 54,000 people.

BTW, didn't we invade Iraq to give people meaningful votes? Do as I say, not as I do.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-04-20 10:38|| 2016-04-20 10:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Cruz was not in New York because he knew Trump was gonna get New York no matter how much time and money Cruz spent. Trump did the same thing with a number of states. The test of character is how they each responded to the electoral beating this strategy created. Trump bitched and moaned like a baby and Cruz shrugged and said we were never going to win NY.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-04-20 11:05|| 2016-04-20 11:05|| Front Page Top

#7 By the way, is it me or does anyone else hate when Cruz uses "we" all the time. I know he's are trying to include his campaign and voters and all that but it sounds like the Royal "we" and I don't like the sound of it.

Trump doesn't do that. He uses I. Has this always been a thing and I'm just now noticing it? Or is Cruz unique in the "we" business?

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-04-20 11:08|| 2016-04-20 11:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, as long as only GOPe apparatchiks are allowed to vote in the general, this strategy should work great for Cruz in November.

Posted by charger 2016-04-20 11:59|| 2016-04-20 11:59|| Front Page Top

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