I sure hope so. Crossing my fingers.
I don’t see Christie dropping out. Yes, he’s down but MSNBC has him at 8% with Cruz/Bush at 11%. He really deserves to stay in until the party clearly settles on the top two or three places and he’s not there. Unless tonight gets a lot worse, he should wait and see.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but those with under 10% get no delegates and their votes are automatically given to the winner. So with all the losers still hanging in there, we’re expecting about 25% of votes given to Trumpy Wumpy.
I am still hoping Bush can overtake Cruz for third place.
That’a a LOT of support to be throwing around. I hope no one gets hurt!!
Anyway, this may be the shot in the arm that Kasich needs. Not Christie’s support, but coming in 2nd in NH.
I’ve been spending so much time on the Republican side, I almost missed that Bernie is currently more than 20% ahead of Hillary.
You know what’s funny? People who keep talking about any other GOP candidate than Trump, thinking that someone like Cruz, Rubio, Christie, Bush, or Kasich cold even come close to a 20% showing.
Why are all the die hard GOPers ignoring the elephant in the room?
Nobody in the primary has a snowball’s chance against Trump.
Anywhere in America.
Says something sad about America, doesn’t it? 
More than two-thirds of Republicans who have voted so far, have voted against Trump. He is leading a crowded field, but he is very far from being assured of anything.
Small note: I’m watching Sanders’s victory speech right now, and I love the fact that he’s working from paper notes. No teleprompter for him–although admittedly he ought to have this speech memorized by now.
He still has no sens or reps endorsing him…
Poor Ben Carson. When a harpie like Fiorina beats you, it is pretty much time to close up shop.
Polling is still early but the truth of the matter is he came in 2nd in Iowa (which is important for delegates) and that’s among the most religiously conservative of all Republican electorates in the primary. [Not because Iowa is itself uber conservative, but because its caucus process tends to lead to a much more conservative slate of participants than is normal even in some states which are “redder” overall.] He crushed New Hampshire, among the most liberal of primary states for Republicans. Even if Cruz takes a few bible states from him, if Trump comes in a close second in those States and Cruz (whose message has no real breadth of appeal in some states) keeps coming in 3rd or 4th in moderate states there really is no one who can beat him.
That’s hardly the point during the primaries. Can’t the same be said about every other Republican candidate?
To me the only question left is how the party will try to game the convention to knock out Trump. Someone or a group will surely try, though I have no idea how successful it might be.
Of course I could be wrong.
I expect someone has already told him to look to SC as a better state for him. Plus, he thinks he’s on a mission. I won’t be surprised to see Fiorina and Christie fall out before he does.
Cruz probably has enough popular support to fund his campaign to the last primary, and Bush probably has enough big donors to do the same (albeit at a reduced level if he keeps doing so poorly.) If there’s one more “establishment lane” candidate who can find a way to stay in til the end then mathematically no one can win a majority and that leads to a brokered convention. In the current era I have no idea how such a thing would turn out.
Yes, her, Ben Carson and Jim Gilmore.
I keep hearing that it is more likely that before the convention there will be a clear winner, based on the strong possibility that it will happen with just a third of the Republican support, I expect to see (if not a brokered convention) a broken convention.
With all the moderates trying their damnedest to sound supportive of Trump or Cruz and no one (except the discordian Republicans that support Trump or Cruz) being fooled by the fakery.
Trump is speaking now. Blech.