Republican voting was at a long time high. Which is a more defining number if a lot of the regulars sat it out.
Liberals created Donald trump, the Republican party had little to do with it On Oct 16, 2016 7:09 PM, "Bill Prince" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think there were actually 18 republican candidates. In the early going > the style of DT pretty much sucked the oxygen out of the room. I think a > lot of it was the press' focus on him, but in the end, it was really the > republican voters that made the decision. > > Republicans are well under half of the overall voter population. My > personal theory was that too many rationally-minded republicans decided to > sit out the primaries, or else they were legitimately split on "all the > rest". > > That's too bad, because in the end, they could have fixed the problem by > only having 3 or at most, 6 candidates. If that had been the case, I think > DT would not have gone past the first 5 primaries. DT did not get a > majority in any of the early primaries; a classic case of split votes. > > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > > On 10/16/2016 4:50 PM, CBB - Jay Fuller wrote: > > One thing to remember during all of this. People voted in 50 states. > Very different states. There were, at times, 10 other candidates on the > republican side - - and admitingly, one socialist on the other side. > > Those 50 states voted Trump in as the republican nominee. There were > several other choices. Trump is the one the majority voted in. > > Don't forget that come Nov 8. > > >
