Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

Well, Bed-Stuy would be fun to watch because there's be all the rotten vegetables getting tossed. But out on the Island, said person would just quietly disappear.

Re: Hilary had nothing to do with UBS
 

Do you choose to starve instead? Do you say "I don't like Wendy's or McDonald's, and the place I really want to have lunch to day is that little place in Paris I went to once that was excellent, so I will vote to have lunch at the Paris place, even though I cannot realistically get there today"?

Re: Arise, ye workers from your slumber.
 

You should write her in. After all, she's the ideal candidate for you. Not like that would be a protest vote or anything

Re: Arise, ye workers from your slumber.
 

I apologize for overstating the thought that had gone into Bernie's "plan". I should have recognized that when people think they've found the Messiah, they tend to stop asking about the details.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

depends on the neighborhood. just as likely to have bearded hipsters quietly making snide comments to each other about him, for a few minutes, then leaving.

Re: MONEY IS BAD, SEND IT TO ME
 

Sidd. Remember your blood pressure. Calm Down.

It's just another preacher infomercial on a loop. Turn the channel. It will run its course.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

I get that Trump doesn't play the game well, and that we lawyers especially should hold that against him. But when Trump underperforms in the delegate count relative to his popular support with GOP primary voters, don't you think it's going to be a problem for the party too?

Re: Hilary had nothing to do with UBS
 

Me too. And sometimes I also want a pony.

eta: Not to eat, though.

I hear that, and likewise try to avoid putting myself in a position where I have to choose one or the other or starve. Sometimes that takes some work.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

But I think, if anything, he has overperformed in delegate count relative to his support with voters. Does he not have a higher percentage of delegates awarded (at least on the first ballot) than he has won of the popular vote? He generally had an advantage in a crowded field that has now narrowed significantly. He has yet to win a majority in a single state, and is only polling 52% in his home state, when his main competition famously insulted it, and his other competition hasn't won a single delegate since Rubio dropped out weeks ago.

Re: Hilary had nothing to do with UBS
 

And when you are in a restaurant that has only chicken and beef on the menu, do you order the fish? Because, you know, you shouldn't be limited to choosing only what is actually there....

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

They all over performed in the delegate count relative to their support with voters, because there were other candidates in the race who have fallen out. Not that you're wrong, but I don't think it goes to the point I was trying to make.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

I see your point, but it is pretty much entirely the fault of "I hire the best people" Donald Trump. I think that the Cruz campaign is playing by the rules in a much more honorable way than Trump surrogates who suggest the violent intimidation of delegates in Cleveland to get their way. And I think that, generally speaking, the rules on the R side are much more fair.

On the Dem side, for example, Bernie won Wyoming with 56% of the vote. But because of the way the delegates are allocated and super delegates, Bernie and Hillary ended up with a 7-7 split on the proportional delegates. And Hillary had already picked up the 4 super delegates. So Bernie won 56% and came in second in the state by 4 delegates. That is an entirely different problem than we have on the R side, and is a lot more contrary to the will of the voters, is it not?


Oh and for the weekend update, Trump is getting his ass handed to him in the selection of the bound delegates in North Carolina. Cruz swept CO and Indiana and went 11 for 12 in Iowa. And quite humorously in CO, where there were several hundred people running to be delegates and they were identified by number only on the ballot, Trump's "best people" put 5 of 13 wrong numbers, and included unpledged delegates and a Cruz supporter on its voter recommendations. The alternate slate also included numbers of Cruz supporters. Then the campaign put out an updated slate, but still included the Cruz supporter on it. Only a real crack campaign apparatus tells people to vote for the other guys in multiple states. It's not the rules that are the problem. The problem is the Trump campaign. To his credit, he did shut out Cruz delegates in Michigan over the weekend from the important rules committees, because the Kasich delegates who said they would vote with the Cruz people turned. Further evidence that Kasich remains only to do Trump's bidding.

As I was saying last week regarding NY and how a lot of Trump supporters won't be able to vote for him... it came out this weekend that Ivanka and Eric Trump can't vote for their father because they didn't change their voter registration by last October. Oops.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

But that's wrong. The super delegates can change their mind and vote Bernie if they want, which is what many did last time around when it became clear that the voters preferred Obama.

All the focus on super delegates is weird. They aren't going to matter.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

They can change their mind. Or they can tip the scale and give the nomination to the loser in popular votes - by design.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

I don't get the complaints about superdelegates in caucus states. Bernie won Alaska with a grand total of 440 votes. He got 156 votes in Wyoming. These are tiny, tiny caucuses. There will be many superdelegates elected to the DNC or other offices with more votes than that.

It's one thing to complain about this in NY, where millions of people vote. I understand that, and if I were writing the rules, I'd look at either binding superdelegates in such states on the first ballot or just eliminating or lessening them. But then, if I were writing the rules, we'd eliminate caucuses.