Pennsylvania has a bunch of unbound delegates, 54 I think. Every state has their own bizarre approaches to this process. If we do get a brokered convention those delegates will be huge obviously.
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Assuming my math is good, with the wins tonight the Donald will be above the 50% of pledged delegate threshold for the first time. A brokered convention is starting to look like a remote possibility.
Sadly I can't see a contested convention now that Trump is entering the inevitability stage where the voters will simply rally to him now that it's difficult to beat him. Plus Cruz is still a dick that no one likes. I'm not sure how much inevitability will happen on the Dem side but it'll happen enough to keep Hillary comfortably ahead if Bernie really wants to go all the way to the convention.
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One good thing about this years election is that it should be becoming very apparent, to even the least interested or most uneducated, that this is not a very democratic process. Little Jimmy or Julie really can't grow up to be President one day.
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Sadly I can't see a contested convention now that Trump is entering the inevitability stage where the voters will simply rally to him now that it's difficult to beat him. Plus Cruz is still a dick that no one likes. I'm not sure how much inevitability will happen on the Dem side but it'll happen enough to keep Hillary comfortably ahead if Bernie really wants to go all the way to the convention.
There are 622 delegates left up for grabs and Trump needs 287 of them which is 46%.
Upcoming contests for the R's are Indiana, Nebraska, West Virginia, Oregon, Washington, and then on June 7: California, New Jersey, New Mexico, Montana, and South Dakota.
A lot of this is tough territory for Trump and he's not had a good record of breaking that 46% threshold. Outside the North East, he's only done it twice: Arizona (47.1%) and Mississippi (47.3%). Now the race is at a different stage, there are fewer candidates, and Trump does have the 'prospective nominee' shine on him, and he did just wallop in the North East ... but it's far from guaranteed that he's ending up with 1237 before the convention.
I really hope he doesn't, purely for entertainment purposes.
"All she has is the woman's card. If Hillary were a man, she would get 5% of the vote."
At some point, this lunatic is going to have start pretending he wants votes from half the population if he wants to win the general election (which he may not actually want to do, I suppose).
At some point, this lunatic is going to have start pretending he wants votes from half the population if he wants to win the general election (which he may not actually want to do, I suppose).
Oh he's already got that covered, haven't you heard? Women love him. He said so, so I guess it's true.
Yup, women love him. It's just that god damn easy.
Tonight he said something along the lines of having made "billions of dollars in China" or with China, I forget and I'm paraphrasing.
Is that even remotely true? How do these (and I won't even use the word 'politicians' here) people get anywhere after just lying all the time. Why is there zero credibility with the media and population here? Also why is that relevant? Couldn't honestly be stupider, this entire process.
There are 622 delegates left up for grabs and Trump needs 287 of them which is 46%.
Upcoming contests for the R's are Indiana, Nebraska, West Virginia, Oregon, Washington, and then on June 7: California, New Jersey, New Mexico, Montana, and South Dakota.
A lot of this is tough territory for Trump and he's not had a good record of breaking that 46% threshold. Outside the North East, he's only done it twice: Arizona (47.1%) and Mississippi (47.3%). Now the race is at a different stage, there are fewer candidates, and Trump does have the 'prospective nominee' shine on him, and he did just wallop in the North East ... but it's far from guaranteed that he's ending up with 1237 before the convention.
I really hope he doesn't, purely for entertainment purposes.
His record is getting better lately and politics are all about momentum. he actually only needs 249 after the count tonight, If he wins Indiana next week(he's leading in every poll) and picks off even 35 of the 57 delegates it's probably over as he will certainly win big in Jersey(51 delegates),West Virginia(34 delegates) and the huge 172 delegates in California.
something like this:
35 + 45 + 30 + 120 = 230
Fairly certain he could pick off 20 more delegates in the remaining 7 states.
Maybe he'll say something totally stupid again and derail himself but the math looks like he wins with ease before Ohio.
There are 622 delegates left up for grabs and Trump needs 287 of them which is 46%.
Upcoming contests for the R's are Indiana, Nebraska, West Virginia, Oregon, Washington, and then on June 7: California, New Jersey, New Mexico, Montana, and South Dakota.
A lot of this is tough territory for Trump and he's not had a good record of breaking that 46% threshold. Outside the North East, he's only done it twice: Arizona (47.1%) and Mississippi (47.3%). Now the race is at a different stage, there are fewer candidates, and Trump does have the 'prospective nominee' shine on him, and he did just wallop in the North East ... but it's far from guaranteed that he's ending up with 1237 before the convention.
I really hope he doesn't, purely for entertainment purposes.
Believe me I hope we get a contested convention too, but I think the nail in that coffin was the Cruz/Kasich alliance this week. It just makes the GOP look so desperate and pathetic, to announce it publicly rather than simply agreeing to it behind the scenes is what makes it even worse. I think Trump now sees enough support rally to him that even if it misses 1237, he'll get to at least 1200 and at that point denying him is guaranteeing a November loss and violence at the convention. Especially, since as I keep harping on, ####### extraordinaire Ted Cruz is the alternative.
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