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Politico today has an excellent article which does a tremendous job at showing why the fiction that a GOP open convention is the answer to their problems.
Can GOP Elites Really Turn Back the Clock in Cleveland? - POLITICO Magazine
They point out that some GOP elitists live in their own world divorced from the one voters live in and are contemptuous of voters and dismiss their power as exercised in the primary.
Its a eye opening view that - if accurate - spells nothing but more problems for the GOP down the road should they decide to stop Trump and turn to somebody like Ryan or even Kasich.
here is a taste of the article - please read the whole thing
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Can GOP Elites Really Turn Back the Clock in Cleveland? - POLITICO Magazine
They point out that some GOP elitists live in their own world divorced from the one voters live in and are contemptuous of voters and dismiss their power as exercised in the primary.
Its a eye opening view that - if accurate - spells nothing but more problems for the GOP down the road should they decide to stop Trump and turn to somebody like Ryan or even Kasich.
here is a taste of the article - please read the whole thing
Somehow, the establishment thinks, it can instruct all those millions of Republican voters who came out for Trump and Cruz and Kasich to fall in line behind, say, Speaker Paul Ryan.
This is the nostrum being proposed to save the Republican Party. The greater likelihood is that it will blow the party up, triggering everything from brawls over rules and credentials, to post-convention efforts to launch a third party or write in campaign, to guerrilla wars at the state and local level, with primaries and party purges threatening anyone who embraced the “party will decide!” philosophy.
Why the likelihood of such fury? Because the underlying question the Republicans will face in Cleveland is whether one can really turn back the clock. Now that ordinary Republican voters, like Democrats, have experienced decades of real democracy, what will their reaction be if it’s taken away from them? The polls tell us that Republican voters want no part of such a process. Even in Wisconsin, where GOP voters decisively rejected Trump, exit polls indicated that most Republicans want the nominee to be the one with the plurality of votes.
And that feeling is not confined to Wisconsin. A Bloomberg Politics poll in late March found that 63 percent of Republicans polled want the candidate with the most delegates by the time of the convention to win the nomination. Only 33 percent said the delegates should pick the nominee regardless of the count at convention time. And a pro-Trump PAC is running ads on FOX News urging viewers to register that sentiment with their phone calls.
Read more: Can GOP Elites Really Turn Back the Clock in Cleveland? - POLITICO Magazine
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