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In response to "Seeing Cruz on national TV basicly beg on TV for everyone to unify behind him" by eag

The post-mortem on how this happened will be amazing.

Posted by Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz) Mar 2 '16, 09:42

you're going to have people who live the rules of politics trying to explain how those rules could be changed to limit the impact of a guy who doesn't care about rules.

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It'll look like me talking The Force Awakens. -- nm - David Mar 2, 09:56 1
- Except even then, them and you still adhere to basic movie concepts of heroes / villains. - Will Hunting Mar 2, 10:18
it's not a mystery. Trump is just telling the rabid tea party base exactly what they wanted McCain and Romney to say to Obama's face when they ran for - sweet baboo Mar 2, 09:46 11
- It's more complicated than that - Strongbad Mar 2, 09:47 10
  - they keep saying it, I have no reason to think it's not true but that is the surprise of the cycle for me. - Mel Profit Mar 2, 09:55 6
    - Already been done, it's called "authoritarianism" -- (link) - Strongbad Mar 2, 10:05 1
      - I saw that earlier. Maybe that's it but it doesn't feel like it. Maybe I'm entirely wrong. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 2, 10:34
    - I think the biggest factor is the people who haven't voted before coming in to vote for him. He's got the angry disenfrachised white people vote sewn - pmb Mar 2, 10:01 2
      - (Except for the angry disenfranchised young white people Bernie has sewn up.) -- nm - Ender Mar 2, 10:48 1
        
        they might even vote! -- nm - sweet baboo Mar 2, 10:50
    - It's what many years of 8% support for Congress looks like at the polls. -- nm - David Mar 2, 09:57
  - Trump is winning 40% of the GOP and has upped his ceiling directly at Cruz's expense - sweet baboo Mar 2, 09:50 2
    - Trump has won ~34% of the popular vote so far. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 2, 09:54 1
      - maybe on average. most places he's closer to 40%. but it's not Cruz & Rubio splitting the anti-Trump vote. It's Trump & Cruz splitting the anti-Rubio - sweet baboo Mar 2, 10:03

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