Cruz wins Kansas in GOP battle for delegates. 50.9% to 24.4% as of now, Rubbio 14%, Kasich 8.7%. Per Fox News, Maine is now 48.0% Cruz to 35.0% for Trump but no one’s called it yet, Rubio’s at 8.6% and Kasich at 8.7%. (Note these are not the final figures and could change).
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There is a LOT of reform that needs done in these primaries. Get rid of caucuses, for one, and Super Delegates. And this bullshit about needing a certain percentage to get anything. And while they're at it, get rid of "winner take all" states. If you didn't vote for the front runner, your vote is worthless.
Pretty much ALL of these goofy rules screw with your vote. Why can't they dish out delegates according to the percentage of the votes they got? All this crap is just lawyers/politicians setting up the rules to benefit the establishment, and screw everybody else.
I don't mind the part about needing a certain percentage to get delegates: that's the only thing encouraging some of these clingers like Christie, Jeb, Carson, and Kasich to go home. Otherwise all these little nobodies can collect a little handful of delegates and store them up like squirrels to use for leverage at the convention. "Oh, you need my five delegates to win the nomination? Fine, promise to make me Treasury Secretary and I'll give you my delegates." Which is pretty much what Kasich is doing, hanging on hoping to win Ohio so he can leverage those delegates for the VP spot.
As for the winner take all, that doesn't really start until later in March or April, right? At that point, the party figures they really need to push the losers out of the race. I don't think I mind that either unless Cruz and Trump are still neck and neck... then winner takes all could really twist the results.
Meanwhile, Kentucky's caucus was all about allowing Rand Paul to run for president. They never had a caucus before, but state law said a man can't be a sitting senator and run in a presidential primary at the same time... so they had a caucus. Seems like a backward step to me.
Apparently Cruz won more delegates yesterday than Trump. And the day was a total disaster for Rubio. All good news. At this point I don't know what Rubio leaving the race would do: help Cruz or hurt him. Florida is practically Trump's second home state, so it might be nice (for Cruz) to have Rubio in the race blunting some of that homerism.
It doesn't matter. The Republican establishment isn't going to let Cruz or Trump get the nomination, even though 85% want an outsider. Look for Kasich or a new name to pop up as the nominee.
OK, in Maine, they just revealed the results.
Cruz 45.84%
Trump 32.55%
Kasich 12.17%
Rubio 8%
Cruz gets 12 delegates
Trump gets 9 delegates
Kasich gets 2 delegates
Rubio gets 0 delegates
You had to hit 10% to get any delegates? I swear, there are so many different rules across the country it's impossible to keep them straight.
Yes, 10% for Maine.
The important one is Louisiana. Louisiana (I think) is the first closed primary. Which means Republicans only, and an actual vote instead of one of those dysfunctional dumbass caucuses. So Louisiana will tell us whether Trump can win without Democrats crossing over. I am hoping the answer is no.
Final results in Louisiana- Rep got 396,470 and Dems got 293,855
Trump took Louisiana. Not good. But at least Rubio got blanked there, too.
I don't get how they can call it for Trump with only 16% of the vote in.
I know. And Fox News had called it for Trump, Trump was giving a victory speech, and MSNBC had it too close to call. WTF? I guess it depends on what channel you're listening to.
NICE!! I'm hoping this trend continues. I especially love seeing Rubio getting crushed.