On 4/3/16 5:24 PM, Ashton Crusher wrote:


No one thinks a third party candidate can win. The issue is, do the
reps hate trump so much that they will deny the PEOPLE CHOICE (Trump)
the nomination and instead hand pick one of the losers? If they do
Trump has the power to make sure the reps lose the election. The
options for the RNC are to nominate Trump, the guy that MOST of the
PEOPLE want, then get behind him and hope to win in the general
OR
Screw Trump and if that makes him run third party be assured that
Hillary (or Bernie if hillaries in jail) wins the general.

The main problem with that theory is that Trump HASN"T been the
people's choice. He hasn't gotten much more than 40% or so of the vote
and you need to 50% to win the nomination. So far more people have NOT
voted for him than have voted for him. Now that the field is getting
smaller it will be interesting to see if his vote percentage ticks up or
he stays at around 40% or so,