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To: Brumar89 who wrote (975266)	10/26/2016 9:50:13 AM
From: zax	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573414

That's an interesting theory, but for the fact that only 5% of voters in the open GOP primaries said they were Democrats (8% in Ohio). And Trump fared worse among independents than Republican voters in the primaries. Among Republican open primary voters, Trump got 39% of the vote. That 170K excess voters came mostly from first-time primary voters. Again, its an interesting theory to attribute an increase in the number of GOP primary voters this year as democrat spoilers in the case of the open primaries, but it is quite far fetched. Certainly, it is no more conspiratorially in nature than a lot of other information coming from the Trump camp, and plausible if you look only at the numbers of voters in each party's primary and assume these are the same voters - a zero sum game. But that's not really how it works. Could Cruz have been a stronger candidate than Trump? I cannot imagine him having been a weaker, less qualified or more divisive candidate than Trump. Without Trump, Cruz may well have won. Blaming the GOP nomination on spoiler party-crossing primary voting Democrats? That's just bluster.