2016 Republican Candidates Survivor. Susana Martinez is the survivor!

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Potential Candidates:

Jon Huntsman eliminated in round 11
Chris Christie eliminated in th final
Rick Perry eliminated in round 3
Rand Paul eliminated in round 1
Tim Pawlenty eliminated in round 3
Mitch Daniels eliminated in round 12
Condi Rice eliminated in round 8
Susana Martinez Survivor!
John Thune eliminated in round 4
Mike Huckabee eliminated in round 9
Marco Rubio eliminated in round 7
Nikki Haley eliminated in the semifinal
Paul Ryan eliminated in round 2
Jeb Bush eliminated in round 5
Scott Walker eliminated in round 5
Kelly Ayotte eliminated in round 6
Mike Pence eliminated in round 7
Michelle Bachmann eliminated in round 2
Rick Santorum eliminated in round 6
Sarah Palin eliminated in round 1
Brian Sandoval eliminated in round 10
Herman Cain  eliminated in round 5
Rob Portman eliminated in round 4
Allen West eliminated in round 1
Bob McDonnell eliminated in round 3
Bobby Jindal eliminated in round 6



For Round 1 - Vote to eliminate 3 candidates, Vote to save 1 candidate (Save will last for 3 rounds)

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Eliminate:

Mitch Daniels
Tim Pawlenty
Rand Paul

Save:

Susana Martinez

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Safe for the next three rounds: Susana Martinez

Eiminated: Allen West, Sarah Palin and Rand Paul

Round 2:

Eliminate 2 candidates

Tim Pawlenty
Scott Walker

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Eliminate: Condolezza Rice, Rick Perry, Bob McDonnell

Save: Tim Pawlenty

You only get to eliminate 2 in round 2.

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Result of round 2

Paul Ryan and Michelle Bachmann eliminated.

Round 3:

Eliminate 3 candidates by voting 3-2-1


Tim Pawlenty 3
Rick Perry 2
Bob McDonnell 1

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Does 3 mean this is the person we want to eliminate the most?   In that case I would go with:
Bush 3 (no more Bushes please!)
McDonnell 2
Santorum 1

Yeah, thats the way it works. The three candidates with the most votes are eliminated.

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McDonnell 8
Perry 5
Pawlenty 4
Bush 4
Santorum 3
Cain 3
Walker 2
Rice 1

Top three eliminated. Bush wins a coin toss against Pawlenty and stays in the race.

Eliminate two boring candidates. Use your own evaluation of (lack of) charisma.

Rob Portman
Mitch Daniels

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Result of round 4

John Thune and Rob Portman eliminated.

Round 5

Eliminate 3 candidates by voting 5-3-1 and (try to) protect 1 candidate by giving him/her minus 3 points. The three candidates with the highest total are eliminated.

Scott Walker 5
Bobby Jindal 3
Mitch Daniels 1

Condi Rice -3

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Result of round 5

48 votes divided thus:

Walker 16
Cain 13
Bush 9
Jindal 8
Santorum 5
Haley 3
Rice 3
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Ayotte 0
Christie -3
Daniels -6

Top three is eliminated.
13 candidates left.

Round 6:

To get to Top 10 we are going to eliminate 3 of the 13 remaining candidates.
You have 5 votes to give to either 1 candidate or distribute to 2-5 candidates. All candidates with 0 points are immune for the next round.

Mitch Daniels 3
Bobby Jindal 2

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Preliminary result of round 6

Jindal 10
Ayotte 6
Rice 5
Daniels 4
Santorum 4
Pence 3
Rubio 2
Haley 1

Christie, Sandoval, Martinez, Huckabee and Huntsman are immune in the next round at the moment.

I will keep this round open for little while for Oldies and Seatown since they are regular voters. Closed for all others.

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Preliminary result of round 6

Jindal 10
Ayotte 6
Rice 5
Daniels 4
Santorum 4
Pence 3
Rubio 2
Haley 1

Christie, Sandoval, Martinez, Huckabee and Huntsman are immune in the next round at the moment.

I will keep this round open for little while for Oldies and Seatown since they are regular voters. Closed for all others.

For that round:
4 Jindal
1 Rice

There is only one round going on and you already voted. You cant change your vote in survivors.

3 Bush
2 Santorum

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Result of round 6

Bobby Jindal, Kelly Ayotte and Rick Santorum eliminated.


Christie, Huckabee, Sandoval, Huntsman and Martinez are immune in the next round.

NB: Oldiesfreaks first vote counted, second one invalid.


Round 7

Vote to eliminate two candidates, at least one of them must be male.

Mike Pence
Marco Rubio

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Result of round 7

Marco Rubio 4
Mike Pence 2
Nikki Haley 2
Condi Rice 1
Mitch Daniels 1

Rubio an Pence are eliminated after coin toss between Pence and Haley.

We now have 3 ladies and 5 gentlemen left (that is if you can call Chris Christie a gentleman... ) and the rest of the rounds will be "Survivor Classic" with 1 candidate eliminated in each round.

Round 8:

Mitch Daniels

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I am going to close round 8 early since all the regular voters have already voted and the result is very clear

Rice 5
Daniels 2
Haley 2

Condi Rice is eliminated.

Round 9

Mike Huckabee

The Huckster is a likable guy in many ways, but like Condi Rice he is de facto retired from politics and even if he did ran he is too SoCon to be electable. So he has to go before the final.

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I am going to close round 8 early since all the regular voters have already voted and the result is very clear

Rice 5
Daniels 2
Haley 2

Condi Rice is eliminated.

Round 9

Mike Huckabee

The Huckster is a likable guy in many ways, but like Condi Rice he is de facto retired from politics and even if he did ran he is too SoCon to be electable. So he has to go before the final.

Eliminate Haley

Also, the survivor really should be a SoCon.  Rick Santorum would be a great fit for the current state of the party   Huckabee would be the most logical remaining contender.

I doubt the rightwingers consider Huckabee to be conservative enough on economics, he has a populist streak. Isn't Haley kinda SoCon too?

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Result of round 9

Mike Huckabee 4
Nikki Haley 3

Huckabee eliminated.

Round 10

Brian Sandoval

The governor of Nevada is "The wrong Latino" for the GOP. Not charismatic enough and pro-choice, which will turn off the base. Unlikely to deliver his state.

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Result of round 10

Sandoval 4
Haley 3

Brian Sandoval is eliminated

Round 11

Jon Huntsman

Good foreign policy credentials and a fairly moderate guy, but the GOP doesn't need another Mormon multimillionaire who is bad at connecting with the common folks. It will be Romney 2 with increased arrogance.

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Result of round 11

Jon Huntsman 4
Nikki Haley 1

Huntsman eliminated

Round 12

Mitch Daniels

A capable manager and his call for truce on social issues may be the way to go.
Daniels would likely be a fine president, but he will be 67 come election day and another old, white man without charisma is not what the GOP needs in 2016.
After losing with McCain and Romney they have to put a minority, female or under 55 (and preferably at least two of those) on top of the ticket to signal change IMO.

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Result of round 12

Daniels 3
Haley 2
Christie 1

Mitch Daniels is eliminated

Semifinal

Hitherto I have voted based on a mix of eligibility and competence and should vote Haley based on that (she is clearly the lightweight in this company, in more than one way   ). But since I simply don't like Christie and have difficulty picturing him on the international stage (all though with a good SoS that might be less important) Ill go with him.

So, Chris Christie for elimination.

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Result of the semifinal

Nikke Haley 4
Chris Christie 2

Governor Nikki Haley eliminated after having survived three challenges!

The grand final

Susana Martinez vs. Chris Christie

For those of you that are not regular survivor players: Remember that you vote for a survivor, not to eliminate someone.

Susana Martinez for survivor!

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Susana Martinez for Survivor!

It's great that this wasn't completely botched by the left. That, or they are in complete agreement on who the best two candidates would likely be.

Yeah, they have been much nicer than you and fab in the Dem survivor.

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Eliminate Martinez

You vote for a survivor in the final, but I will accept it as Christie for survivor

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Result of the final

Martinez 6
Christie 5

Susana Martinez is survivor