2016 Presidential Primaries [ SUPER TUESDAY | 3-1-'16]

Oklahomahawk said:
It wouldn't have mattered. Ron uses logic and facts in debates, totally useless in a debate against the Donald. It would be like shooting rubber bands at Shrek, except Shrek is a nicer person.
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Romney didn't attack Ron Paul and vice versa.

Ron was very good at comebacks, and he wasn't as hotheaded as Rand, so I think he would have been one of the only ones to put Donald in his place.
 
Julio3000 said:
Minnesota does not play to Trump's strengths, Arkansas and maybe Oklahoma are wild cards. Virginia might be interesting if the last few days of withering fire have damaged Trump at all. I think the biggest question is if Cruz can make enough hay to try to become the anti-Trump, since the establishment-driven narrative is now "March 1 doesn't end the game, wait until the 15th."
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Cruz's best bet was to win the redneck states in the South, but Trump is killing him in every demographic that Cruz would thrive in.
 
The Don said:
Romney didn't attack Ron Paul and vice versa.

Ron was very good at comebacks, and he wasn't as hotheaded as Rand, so I think he would have been one of the only ones to put Donald in his place.
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I think it would have been worse actually. He would have had a whole base of people to put down and insult.
 
The Don said:
Romney didn't attack Ron Paul and vice versa.

Ron was very good at comebacks, and he wasn't as hotheaded as Rand, so I think he would have been one of the only ones to put Donald in his place.
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Wouldn't it depend on who was judging? Trump's fans cheered when he put a woman out in the cold for disturbing a rally and told his goons to keep her coat when they put her out. Do you think followers like that are gonna say, "wow I really like Trump but you gotta admit Ron Paul zinged him pretty good with that barbs of truth"?
 
zitothebrave said:
Nope. Texas could very shortly have a hard switch to a Florida/Ohio/Pennsylvania type of state.
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Georgia and Texas are close to becoming purple but neither will be a battleground state for at minimum a decade.

Penn hasn't gone Republican in 20+ years, don't know why that's still a thing. Florida and Ohio are the true tossup states, with Virginia and North Carolina also.
 
I don't see how that quote hurts Trump honestly.

If anything he can take it and run with his businessman persona of cutting deals.
 
The Don said:
I don't see how that quote hurts Trump honestly.
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Me either. His supporters are happy to completely follow the authoritarian Trump. They are mostly poor, intellectually passive, in Trump lingo, "losers", and have already judged Trump to be the symbol of American success.
 
The Don said:
Georgia and Texas are close to becoming purple but neither will be a battleground state for at minimum a decade.

Penn hasn't gone Republican in 20+ years, don't know why that's still a thing. Florida and Ohio are the true tossup states, with Virginia and North Carolina also.
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Texas will go purple before Georgia. Texas has a massive hispanic population that the republicans are doing their best to lose.

Pennsylvania hasn't gone R in a long time but look at the trends, of the last 5 elections, only 2 were blowouts, 2008 and 1996, 2012 was a big win at 6%, but 2004 and 2000 were decided by under 4 percentage points.
 
The Don said:
Trump isn't gonna lose supporters. But what's troubling for him like Hillary is he hasn't gained any new ones.
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Trump is going to have to change his tone a bit if he wants to win the general otherwise he won't get out of the low to mid 40's.
 
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