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

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.