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Stoked said:
Closed primaries. Trump does well in open primaries.
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Yes, but I think Louisiana was an open primary and he only won it because of early voting. The day of voting went to Cruz. I don't know how anybody could watch his recent performances (especially the last debate but also that pledge thing you pointed out) and not start having doubts.
 
This is a brief synopsis of an article posted to Rolling Stone by Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi, in which he elaborates on something I've been keying in on myself, namely the recognition by Trump that our election process is ripe for transformation into Reality TV. Actually, it's a recognition by Trump that our election process has been "really badly acted TV" for quite awhile now. There is a link to the full article by Taibbi at this synopsis:

https://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/ta...ican-elections-are-just-badly-acted-tv-shows/

"But as Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi puts it, we should have seen it coming. The so-called Trump Train keeps rolling because Trump has figured out that the American electoral system is nothing more than glorified reality television.

“It turns out we let our electoral process devolve into something so fake and dysfunctional that any half-bright con man with the stones to try it could walk right through the front door and tear it to shreds on the first go,” Taibbi writes. “And Trump is no half-bright con man, either. He’s way better than average.”

As Taibbi points out, luck would have it that the “bloated billionaire scion” Trump just so happened to be into the very kinds of activities that would poise him to lead the Republican field in 2016 — beauty pageants and reality TV.

“He knows show business,” Taibbi notes. “That put him in position to understand that the presidential election campaign is really just a badly acted, billion-dollar TV show whose production costs ludicrously include the political disenfranchisement of its audience.”

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Well, here is the full Rolling Stone article, "How America made Donald Trump Unstoppable:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-america-made-donald-trump-unstoppable-20160224
 
And here is the full text of the email comedian Louis C. K. sent to his followers, which has been making the rounds for his comparison of Trump to Hitler:

https://www.rollingstone.com/cultur...rump-in-epic-email-the-guy-is-hitler-20160305

"....,.Trump is a messed up guy with a hole in his heart that he tries to fill with money and attention. He can never ever have enough of either and he'll never stop trying. He's sick. Which makes him really really interesting. And he pulls you towards him which somehow feels good or fascinatingly bad. He's not a monster. He's a sad man. But all this makes him horribly dangerous if he becomes president. Give him another TV show. Let him pay to put his name on buildings. But please stop voting for him."
 
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