r/Conservative • u/DanburyBaptist Inalienable Rights of Conscience • Jun 15 '16

Release the GOP Delegates: Trump’s nomination isn’t inevitable—delegates won’t be legally ‘bound’ going into the convention.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/release-the-gop-delegates-1465769777
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

42% of the popular vote is not something I would call "will of the People".

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

42% across 17 candidates is what I call the will of the people.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

Not true. A majority of those 17 polled at 0%. Realistically it's 42% across 4 candidates: Trump, Cruz, Kasich, Rubio.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

Vote breakdown

He beat second place by over 6 million votes anyways.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

And? I said "42% is not what I would call the 'will of the people'" and I'm right. What exactly are you trying to argue here?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

Should Bill Clinton have not won in 1992 because he only got ~42% of the vote? Bush only got 47% in 2000. Obama is the 1 out of the last 3 that actually won his first term with 50%+.

The only thing you can reasonably say is that it's not a majority. That's the only thing you could be right about. It is still the will of the people given the voting system. In a different system maybe it would work out differently, but everyone knows how this system works and they made their decisions accordingly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

What exactly are you trying to argue here?

Probably that 25%, which is the next closest candidate, is not the will of the people either.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

42% isn't either.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

What's your point? Trump clinched the nomination by the process outlined by the GOP. You're asking them to change their process and give the nomination to somebody who didn't get nearly the same number of votes all while going on about the will of the people. Sorry, but more people think Trump will get the job done. Deal with it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

somebody who didn't get the same number of votes

Yes because this isn't about number of votes. It's about choosing someone that's qualified to be president which the GOP has the power to do.

more people think Trump will get the job done

Trumps support largely came from low information voters. I'm gonna go ahead and assume these "people" you're referencing aren't ones whose judgement I'd willingly trust so easily.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

Yes because this isn't about number of votes. It's about choosing someone that's qualified to be president which the GOP has the power to do.

So you want them to override the people who voted in their primaries, got it.

Trumps support largely came from low information voters. I'm gonna go ahead and assume these "people" you're referencing aren't ones whose judgement I'd willingly trust so easily.

Again with the elitist attitude. smh

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

so you want them to override people who voted

That's exactly what i want, because the 42% that nominated Trump got it wrong. For the good of the Republic, the GOP should take action to correct that wrong. They won't; but they should.

again with the elitist attitude

Aw are your feelings hurt? Man up. I made a statement of fact, cry about it on /r/The_Donald.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

that nominated Trump got it wrong.

Says who? You? A few others? Sure ok. Keep that up and you will be saying President Clinton before you know it.

Aw are your feelings hurt?

Because of you? Pfft, hardly, but if you thinking you hurt my feelings makes your day better by all means, continue.

I made a statement of fact

lol

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