# GOP Presidential Candidates: The Elimination Game (Round 1)

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [June 18, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-presidential-candidates-the-elimination-game-round-1/722850 "2015-06-18T14:04:38Z")\
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Since this is a game about the GOP 2016 nominee, may I interject a brief hijack, please?

A _Karachi Auction on the 2016 GOP nominee_ will start soon in Thread Games. The goal will not be to determine the best or most amusing candidate, but to function as odds-makers and develop each candidate’s chance of winning the nomination.

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Kasich  
Christie  
Huckabee  
Pataki  
Rubio  
Graham  
Santorum  
Fiorina

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need a shower…

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**Post date:** [June 20, 2015, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-presidential-candidates-the-elimination-game-round-1/722850/43 "2015-06-20T22:33:16Z")

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And with 25 votes, the end tally now stands as such:

Walker - 4  
\*\*Kasich – 21 \*\*

Jindal – 3  
\*\*Christie – 22 \*\*

Perry – 12  
**Huckabee – 13**

\*\*Pataki – 17 \*\*  
Bush – 8

**Rubio 25**  
Cruz – 0

Graham – 12  
**Paul – 13**

**Santorum – 20**  
Carson – 5

**Fiorina – 19**  
Trump – 6

Thus the winners of this round are, in order of votes received:  
Rubio  
Christie  
Kasich  
Santorum  
Fiorina  
Pataki  
Huckabee  
Paul

That said, the Huckabee-Perry and Paul-Graham races went back and forth and could easily have swung the other way or ended in a tie had voting continued, and I will consider whether there’s a fair and reasonable way to include Perry and Graham in the next round (link to be posted once it’s ready).

No such consideration for Bush, Trump, Carson, Walker, Jindal or Cruz who were definitively crushed in their heats, most notably Ted Cruz who tickled no one’s fancy at all.

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**Post date:** [June 21, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-presidential-candidates-the-elimination-game-round-1/722850/44 "2015-06-21T00:23:19Z")

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**[Round 2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=760086)**

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