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Question: If Trump had never entered the race who would be winning right now?
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Ted Cruz		  
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Marco Rubio		  
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John Kasich		  
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Jeb Bush		  
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Chris Christie		  
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Scott Walker		  
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Someone else		  
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Total Voters: 34

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Beefalow and the Consumer
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« on: April 05, 2016, 02:33:41 PM »
Apologies if this has already been done.
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« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2016, 02:58:57 PM »
There has been a thread on this before and I think the general consensus was Ted Cruz would be able to win over the anti-establishment vote. By doing this he would win big early as the establishment vote is too divided over Bush, Rubio, Kasich etc. Kasich would eventually be revealed as the establishment's strongest candidate as he wins Ohio by >50% but by the time Rubio drops out it's too late.

Meanwhile there's Carson, who would compete with Cruz over the evangelical vote. If Cruz doesn't need to resort to unethical lying to win Iowa over Carson than that's just another good thing for Cruz compared to OTL. 

Cruz wins the primaries and gets clobbered by Clinton in the election.
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« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2016, 09:21:23 AM »
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« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2016, 05:10:19 PM »
Maybe Kasich? He would have won New Hampshire for sure.


Kasich: 50.5%
Paul: 21.0%
Rubio: 20.2%
Cruz: 12.3%
others: 6.0%
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« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2016, 09:21:20 AM »
Kasich or Rubio would be the nominee
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« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2016, 09:40:26 AM »
Cruz would either be winning or this close to winning it all.
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« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2016, 01:03:00 PM »
A two man race between Rafael and Little Marco.
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« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2016, 08:23:00 PM »
Cruz would have it locked up by now, sweeping the South and the West.
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« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2016, 01:28:34 AM »
Bush may have been a stronger factor. Iirc his team expected Cruz to surge and were ready to deal with that.
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« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2016, 09:24:18 PM »
Quote from: Battenberg on April 24, 2016, 01:28:34 AM
Bush may have been a stronger factor. Iirc his team expected Cruz to surge and were ready to deal with that.

Agreed. I think Bush would have been a much more formidable candidate had his image not been destroyed by Trump.
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« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2016, 12:15:19 AM »
I have a funny feeling that Walker would have ridden an Iowa win to the nomination and the presidency.  He was fundamentally unlucky with the shakeup in the race.  The best analogy would be, for anyone who watches Survivor, someone who is in a good position, but loses because of a tribe swap at the wrong time changing the dynamics of the game.
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