_Howard Admin
Posts : 8734 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 79 Location : California
| Subject: Wisconsin Tue Apr 05, 2016 6:12 pm | |
| Very early returns show Cruz and Sanders in the lead. That's what the polls had predicted. |
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20363 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 70 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Wisconsin Tue Apr 05, 2016 6:37 pm | |
| Yep. Doesn't change the race, but keeps it open. |
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_Howard Admin
Posts : 8734 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 79 Location : California
| Subject: Re: Wisconsin Tue Apr 05, 2016 6:48 pm | |
| I don't know. It puts Sanders very close to Clinton if you disregard the super delegates. When they get to the convention, the Democratic establishment is going to have to pay attention to that when they try to figure out who has the best chance of winning the presidency National polls consistently show Sanders doing better against Cruz than Clinton does.
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20363 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 70 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Wisconsin Tue Apr 05, 2016 6:52 pm | |
| Seth Abramson agrees with you.The republican strategist on MSNBC said the party is pivoting to a "Lose With Cruz" strategy, as a softer hammer on the downticket races than allowing Trump to control the ticket top to bottom. Right after she said that, while they were still on the air, Rachel Maddow purchased that domain name and says together they'll do something with it. |
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20363 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 70 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Wisconsin Tue Apr 05, 2016 7:01 pm | |
| Cruz's victory speech is frightening. Abolish the IRS? Bomb Iran? Give federal money to Brigham Young? Yikes. |
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20363 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 70 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Wisconsin Tue Apr 05, 2016 7:26 pm | |
| Sanders won by 54 to 46 per cent, but Wisconsin is not a winner-take-all state. - Quote :
- In the Democratic primary, there are four kinds of delegates. Wisconsin has 96 total delegates going to the convention; 86 of them are “pledged” which means they are tied to primary votes. Delegate selection is a proportional system, which means district level-delegates are apportioned among top vote getters by district while at-large delegates are apportioned among top vote getters statewide by percentage of vote received above a certain threshold.
The breakdown: 57 Congressional District delegates; 10 pledged Party Leaders and Elected Officials; 10 unpledged PLEOs or superdelegates; 19 at-large
1. Congressional District delegates: Wisconsin has a total of 52 district-level delegates and five alternates. Each Congressional District is allotted a percentage of those delegates based on the 2012 and 2014 Democratic performance in that district.
2. Pledged Party Leader and Election Official delegates: Delegates including large city mayors, state legislative leaders, state legislators and other local party leaders
3. Unpledged PLEOs: Delegates including members of the Democratic National Committee who legally reside in the state and all of Wisconsin’s Democratic Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. These delegates are probably better known as "superdelegates." Superdelegates aren't required to adhere to the results of the state's primary election, meaning they can vote for their candidate of choice, not necessarily the winner of the primary.
4. At-large delegates and alternates: Delegates elected by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s Administrative Committee. People not chosen for delegate will then be considered candidates for at-large alternate positions unless they specify otherwise when filing. |
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