tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9007776560535676200.post7672470955210370066..comments2024-02-16T04:18:23.151-05:00Comments on The Shitty Christian Blog: Killing Donald Trump Part One: Ultionem in Nigroque CygnoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9007776560535676200.post-36426173499139892222016-03-10T18:42:11.309-05:002016-03-10T18:42:11.309-05:00Not sure about the last time that happened with th...Not sure about the last time that happened with the Rs, but it happened in 2008 with the Ds and there wasn't a lot of crying about it. Check the popular vote and popular delegate counts for HRC and the Lightworker, versus the result. The superdelegates were the deciding factor there. John Douganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17697319138259306921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9007776560535676200.post-20534786293332595902016-03-10T08:52:18.724-05:002016-03-10T08:52:18.724-05:00The front-room political shenanigans are already p...The front-room political shenanigans are already pretty evident - #NeverTrump et al. <br /><br />As for the convention in particular, I think most people will view a brokered convention with about as much calm consideration as the most sinister back room deal.<br /><br />Even if it's 100% legal and 100% precidented, all people are going to see is the establishment doing that thing that everyone hates.<br /><br />In this election front room shenanigans are back room shenanigans.The Revhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00613896904824854770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9007776560535676200.post-32582046133137191262016-03-09T18:09:38.392-05:002016-03-09T18:09:38.392-05:00You missed one strategy: front-room political shen...You missed one strategy: front-room political shenanigans. The party establishments have engineered their primary processes fairly carefully with multiple backstops for this kind of situation. This is part of what makes Trump interesting; he has managed to command many of the process features that were designed to promote the success of the establishment candidates. But Trump hasn't gotten past all of them yet.<br /><br />Expect to see a major reengineering of the primary process for the GOP establishment if they manage to survive the election and any backlash, something like what happened to the Democrats after Carter.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />John Douganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17697319138259306921noreply@blogger.com