Aylee
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ORIGINAL: bounty44 i heard said recently that throughout history, there are have been 10 contested conventions and in those conventions, 7 out of 10 times the candidate with the most delegates going in did not win the nomination. That is true. Do you think that will be the case here if Trump has the majority? its hard to tell isn't it---its not that the delegates are some secret society trying to avoid detection, but at the same time, what they think isn't public news. I think id need more information before making a prediction and some of that information is going to come from how well trump does in the upcoming states with closed primaries vis-à-vis cruz. rubio's dropping out would also seem to favor cruz, so I'd want to see how that plays out also. in general though trump has a couple of things going against him in a contested convention. one is, he's done a great job of alienating a lot of people and being at least in some instances, buffoonish. the other is, and id love to hear a debriefing after the fact as to the reasons, cruz has been stacking up better against Hillary than trump has poll wise. so actually, that's another thing that remains to be seen also. at the very least, I think cruz needs to win more states and be closer in the proportional ones. Trump is different but I don't consider him in the least "buffoonish". He is well educated, well raised and proved himself intelligent, charismatic and a leader. A true executive for the Executive Branch of our government. Huh, go figure. Furthur, he is a bit like Washington and a bit like Lincoln and Caesar Augustus kinda leaning toward the latter. It just means you need to embrace such a president or vote for the other person and screw this county to the wall for another four years. I just don't know what will happen at the GOP Convention. Existing huh? He is kind of more John Adams than Washington.
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