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
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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.
