You keep saying “ideally,” but I don’t see anything good about Rubio getting the nomination. I detest both of them, but I think Trump is more likely to listen to sensible advice, should the unthinkable happen and he winds up in the WH.
Do you have a link? I did find this graph showing that Cruz got second place by getting one more delegate than Rubio, but most recent links show Rubio still slightly ahead of Cruz.
Well ideally…
I agree Rubio’s politics are pretty abhorrent. Whether he’d be better or worse than Trump is kinda hard to say, since I doubt even Trump knows what Trump will actually do in the unlikely event he finds himself in the Oval Office.
Holy crap, Trump is up to 46% now, with 94% reporting. Just yesterday, some very smart pundit on TV was wondering if 35% was his ceiling.
ETA: and somebody voted for Jeb!, who is cruising at 0.1%. Kasich and Carson both below 5%. Carson is probably too dumb to drop out, but I don’t see why Kasich would bother running any more.
TPM sez that with 97.31% of precincts reporting, we have:
Trump 45.9%
Rubio 23.8%
Cruz 21.5%
Carson 4.8%
Cruz 3.6%
On to Super Tuesday! Or at least, that’s what Rubio supposedly said before he went to bed, not bothering with a victory-for-2nd-place speech. 
Re Kasich: if you’ve been running for President for a year, what’s the argument against hanging in there for 3 more weeks until your home state votes?
Not to mention, at the speed everything happens once things start happening, Kasich probably hasn’t had time to make it past denial to anger and bargaining yet. Acceptance is still a ways down the road. Remember that it’s been only 2 weeks since he had his big second-place finish in NH.
I was interested in learning more about Kasich until the Pecker Head did this.:dubious: “His office announced the action without further comment.” What a weenie.
It’s easy to overstate Nevada, you can’t say the candidates really went all out for weeks on end to win it. In my opinion, the Trumpmentum is becoming unstoppable. If he wins all but one or two states on Tuesday, the fat lady can start warming up her voice. Another second place for Rubio! He likes his silver medals so much, he’s going to have them bronzed.
Heh. That’s a pretty good line. Can you lay claim to that one or is it a quote/old saying?
That’s an old one, usually it goes that the Polish athlete liked his gold medal so much he had it bronzed.
He’s favored to win a lot of states on Super Tuesday according to the betting markets. If he does that, then Trump as the nominee becomes a very likely reality.
Normally I have to wait until November to be disappointed and go off and sulk. Now I’ll have to do it in March.
Just don’t go away. You’re too much fun to have around. Are you conceding the election if Trump is nominated?
No, because Trump’s support is impossible to quantify. Robert Reich just actually posted on Facebook that people he talks to say things like, “I can’t decide between Trump and Sanders.” If there are Sanders supporters who actually like Trump, who knows what will happen?
But I’d rather see Clinton or Sanders win than Trump. I’m saved from voting Democrat only by the presence of Gary Johnson in the race on the libertarian side. There’s also still the Bloomberg possibility.
That’s The Ludlum Option.
Can anyone familiar with the delegate rules explain the reports on how the delegates have been awarded? Thirty delegates are available, and the reports I’ve seen assign 12 to Trump and 5 each to Cruz and Rubio with 100% of the vote in. What happened to the other 8 delegates?
Interesting fact:
More people voted for Trump in the NV caucuses (34,531) than voted in the NV Repub caucuses in 2008, for all candidates (34,387)
That’s why you can’t rule out a Trump general election win. He’s driving turnout to insane levels.
No, he’s driving the insane to turn out.
Same difference.