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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Carly Fiorina Cals on Rubio and Kasich to Drop Out

Which means she is on the same wave length as Sam Wang.

Carly Fiorina on Tuesday called for John Kasich and Marco Rubio to suspend their campaigns, insisting that Ted Cruz is the only candidate who can beat Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

“When we have closed primaries, when Republicans are choosing their nominee, Ted Cruz has beaten him,” Fiornia told MSNBC, speaking of Trump. “So I do think, really, it depends upon what Marco Rubio and John Kasich do tomorrow morning, and I very much hope they both will be statesmanlike and exit the race because that’s what it’s gonna take now. We need to have a man-on-man contest and beat Donald Trump at the ballot box.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/fiorina-rubio-kasich-drop-out-220799#ixzz4317hlx59

She's right if the best way to beat him is a Cruz-Trump race. Of course many GOPers are not at all sure Cruz is the lesser of the two evils. I looked as Sam Wang's argument earlier.

http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/03/ted-cruz-goes-out-on-limb.html

The exit polls look promising for HRC.

OH: Clinton 53, Sanders 47 
FL: Clinton 63, Sanders 37 
IL: Clinton 50, Sanders 50

https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/709873140491538432

I would take that-it would give her a huge blowout in Florida delegates and a win in Ohio would shut up Bernie about his 2 point Michigan win a little. Not that this is paramount but it could change the silly narrative a little.

Early voting seems to confirm HRC will get a huge win in Florida and Trump will also get a huge win in Florida.

"As expected, Trump appears to be headed for a sizable Florida victory based on early votes in several counties. Trump is posting large leads all over the state, though Rubio was expected to do best among early voters. The only good news for Rubio? It doesn’t look like he’s in much danger of coming in third behind Cruz."

http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/march-15-primaries-ohio-florida-results-presidential-election-2016/

I was watching CNN earlier and they interviewed a woman who voted for Rubio and she said that she is voting for him but she doesn't like him-it's just to stop Trump from winning. Meanwhile he was talking today about staying in even if he loses though surely this is just talk.

As for Hillary:
"In order for Sanders to keep the delegate count close after tonight, he needs to do well in Florida. There is absolutely no sign that he’s going to do so from the early votes being reported in the state. He is trailing in big Democratic counties: Broward by 51 percentage points, Miami-Dade by 61 percentage points, Orange by 37 percentage points and Palm Beach by 50 percentage points. And with so many Floridians casting early ballots this year, Clinton looks like she’ll win the vast majority of the 214 delegates up for grabs in the state tonight."

Of course, this is the exact opposite of Bernie's mindset. His focus has been to eek out another small win in Ohio even though in a proportional system, a small win does little more than a small loss. It gives a little something symbollically but you won't win this primary on symbolism.

But I guess it's a good metaphor for his entire campaign-big on symbolism. rather bullheaded about realities.

UPDATE: Evidently they haven't called Florida for her yet but with 15 percent of the vote in according to RealClearPolitics, she leads 67 percent to 31 percent. Trump with 12 percent in leads leads 47-26.


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