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The South Carolina Primary & Nevada Caucuses |Feb 20, 23, 27| Continuing The Calm

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When he said "I want to tell you I can't wait to go back to the great state of Texas," it seemed as if he wanted to end it there. But then he realized that's kind of a stupid conclusion to a speech given to an audience of Nevadans. He's probably feeling exhausted.
 
Who is Trump gonna pick for his VP? I'd imagine Rubi is out because of the whole immigration thing, and he's seemed to go really cold on Cruz lately. Can he be his own VP?
 
Titanoboa said:
Who is Trump gonna pick for his VP? I'd imagine Rubi is out because of the whole immigration thing, and he's seemed to go really cold on Cruz lately. Can he be his own VP?
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Titanoboa said:
Who is Trump gonna pick for his VP? I'd imagine Rubi is out because of the whole immigration thing, and he's seemed to go really cold on Cruz lately. Can he be his own VP?
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if he's smart, and i'm pretty sure his advisers will push for this, Trump elects a woman VP. Preferably, one with latin roots.
 
Chris Matthews again with that insight. So true about Cruz's speech coming across as a list of "small, unimportant" legislative checkboxes. Repeal Obamacare, end amnesty, blah blab government blah blah executive, whereas Trump keeps it big and grand and optimistic, talking about how the country won't be pushed around anymore, how everyone will win, how AMERICA will be great again.

He makes it look so easy, until you realize the utter embarrassments his opponents are at the stump.
 
A message to the rest of the world:

I know you may think America is crazy (and we are) but you should know that Trump voters are currently a very small portion of the population. About 30% of the country identifies as Republican (eligible to vote in most Republican primaries/caucuses), less than half of those actually do (30-45%), so call it 50% to be generous, and that makes 15% of the population voting. If we take all four states so far and say about 40% of those voted for Trump (again generous) that means about 6% of the US population is voting for Trump at this point when you extrapolate that to the primary/caucus season being finished and all states voted.

Now we will see how many votes he gets in the general election, but we haven't all gone off our rocker.
 
LizardKing said:
A message to the rest of the world:

I know you may think America is crazy (and we are) but you should know that Trump voters are currently a very small portion of the population. About 30% of the country identifies as Republican (eligible to vote in most Republican primaries/caucuses), less than half of those actually do (30-45%), so call it 50% to be generous, and that makes 15% of the population voting. If we take all four states so far and say about 40% of those voted for Trump (again generous) that means about 6% of the US population is voting for Trump at this point.

Now we will see how many votes he gets in the general election, but we haven't all gone off our rocker.
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Less than that actually. Dems are something like 28% and pubs are 24%.

That being said, those that identify as one or the other are more likely to vote than anyone else.
 
LizardKing said:
A message to the rest of the world:

I know you may think America is crazy (and we are) but you should know that Trump voters are currently a very small portion of the population. About 30% of the country identifies as Republican (eligible to vote in most Republican primaries/caucuses), less than half of those actually do (30-45%), so call it 50% to be generous, and that makes 15% of the population voting. If we take all four states so far and say about 40% of those voted for Trump (again generous) that means about 6% of the US population is voting for Trump at this point when you extrapolate that to the primary/caucus season being finished and all states voted.

Now we will see how many votes he gets in the general election, but we haven't all gone off our rocker.
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I will judge the US harshly when Trump indeed becomes president :P
 
Gad damn, Cruz is definitely making Rubio sweat to death right now. Rubio is back on top by a bit, but it's much closer than what Rubio needs to definitely put Cruz out to pasture. In fact, he's not even winning any counties, and Cruz has two!
 
Joeytj said:
Gad damn, Cruz is definitely making Rubio sweat to death right now. Rubio is back on top by a bit, but it's much closer than what Rubio needs to definitely put Cruz out to pasture. In fact, he's not even winning any counties, and Cruz has two!
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Rubio will end up winning by a thousand votes and that'll be enough to let him claim 2nd place as no one is going to bring up the vote count.
 
Ambient80 said:
it blows my mind that Trump somehow apparently won the hispanic vote. i just dont understand it
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hispanic republicans.

The overwhelming majority of nevada latinos are democrats. off the top of my head it's something like 83 to 17.

edit: I was close. 17 percent are republican, 55% democratic, 28% independent or "other." unsure if that last group can vote in caucuses or not. either way, horrible news for Trump.

http://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/jun/17/nevadas-latino-voter-data-and-what-it-means-2016-p/

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Black Republican said:
hispanics can be republicans too!
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Manmademan said:
hispanic republicans.

The overwhelming majority of nevada republicans are democrats. off the top of my head it's something like 83 to 17.

edit: I was close. 17 percent are republican, 55% democratic, 28% independent or "other." unsure if that last group can vote in caucuses or not. either way, horrible news for Trump.

http://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/jun/17/nevadas-latino-voter-data-and-what-it-means-2016-p/
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right i get that, i just mean with all the racial shit he flings its just amazing to me that that many people would seemingly vote against their own interest/welfare.
 
Sharinel said:
u wot m8?
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LOL. its early. wrote "latinos" as republicans.

Ambient80 said:
right i get that, i just mean with all the racial shit he flings its just amazing to me that that many people would seemingly vote against their own interest/welfare.
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poor white voters have been doing it forever. Latinos aren't completely immune. There are always some people for which there is another overriding issue that makes the immigration thing irrelevant. Maybe its jesus, maybe its jobs, maybe it's abortion, maybe they just hate muslims and are panicked about terrorism.

Romney got 25% of the latino vote in 2012. Latinos lean heavily democratic nationally, but they're not where Black voters are just yet.
 
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