**** Elections thread *****

[Deanglow]

If Trump wins FL and OH he will have a ~300 delegate lead. Your Cruz love reminds me of Reddit's for Bernie.

[wufwugy]

If Trump wins FL and OH he will have a ~300 delegate lead. Your Cruz love reminds me of Reddit's for Bernie.

1237 wins the nomination, not a 300 lead. Trump would have an arithmetically challenged time at breaking 1000 delegates if it went HU at that point based on that 300 lead not being large enough when added to his likely remaining delegates to win.

If you wish to make a case for how this is not so, you have to argue for how Trump has good equity to win some states that I am saying he doesn't, so that he could turn that 300 lead into a 1237 total.

Compare standard math and logic to Redditing at your own peril.

[FeliciaLee]

If Trump wins FL and OH he will have a ~300 delegate lead. Your Cruz love reminds me of Reddit's for Bernie.

Don't be too sure. We may back Cruz, but conservatives don't tend to do cults of personality. Cruz can be underhanded, acts like a douchebag sometimes and I wish I could give him a wedgie when he gets smarmy/too big for his pants.

But he is a strict constitutionalist, who will do the best for our country even when it is against his personal desires.

[wufwugy]

Don't be too sure. We may back Cruz, but conservatives don't tend to do cults of personality.

Funny that. It's almost like the cult of personality going on right now is a national socialist (Trump). Not too much unlike the previous socialist's cult of personality that propelled him into the White House (Obama).

American conservatism isn't conducive to cult of personality because it's fundamentally anti-authoritarian and a cult of personality is fundamentally pro-authoritarian. This goes back to the roots of the Constitution, so it's not new.

[wufwugy]

Cruz can be underhanded, acts like a douchebag sometimes and I wish I could give him a wedgie when he gets smarmy/too big for his pants.

What are these? The best I can think of as underhanded was the Iowa voter score cards, but that's used by pretty much every politician and isn't underhanded but instead a little tasteless.

I don't recall thinking of him being smarmy in any particular instance. I mean, I know that's the picture painted of him, but after I started paying attention to him I don't recall seeing it.

[FeliciaLee]

What are these? The best I can think of as underhanded was the Iowa voter score cards, but that's used by pretty much every politician and isn't underhanded but instead a little tasteless.

I don't recall thinking of him being smarmy in any particular instance. I mean, I know that's the picture painted of him, but after I started paying attention to him I don't recall seeing it.

Yeah, I was really turned off by the card. It wasn't just the typical one either, but one of the harshest I've seen. Then his blind defense of it. Those campaign fundraising e-mails/snail mails. Eww.

But I know without a doubt who is the best person for our president.