WV, NE primaries and general polls

Submitted by Anne Julienne (Australia), May 11, 2016 at 00:34

It's a credit, I think, to Cruz and Kasich that they've held on fairly well in these primaries despite having dropped out. Together, they represent a 30% "no" to Trump in NE, and an almost 20% "no" in WV.

As indicated in another post of mine, I'm estimating the determined "no" to Trump at around 10% (at most) and really, given that Trump and Clinton are neck-and-neck in key states, I really should revise this down to 5% (overall, not limited to Republicans).

The only other populist who could take down Trump is Sanders: Heaven help us!

This is my own list of preferences:

1) Cruz - can't happen unless something really surprising and unpredictable comes about.

2) Clinton - she is at least a somewhat rational, reliable and relatively "serious" adult - but she *will* go down to Trump. She simply does not have "the balls" to oppose him, given that she never had "the balls" to oppose Obama.

3) Trump - yes, he's mad but at least he supports Israel, so his heart is in the right place there.

4) Sanders - I know that younger people, like my own son, would support Sanders because old-fashioned socialism has always been very attractive to young people (including to myself when I was in my twenties, as my son is). As one gets older, one "outgrows" this kind of vacuous idealism but it's still there and we must accept that reality. To me, Sanders is a traitor Jew, a JINO, and therefore highly dangerous to the more positive future that I look forward to.

God help us!! How in hell do we get Cruz - and therefore sanity - back into play?

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