Polls packed in Indy

Primary voting in Indiana today. I live in a small precinct - usually I can walk in and out in 5 minutes or less for primaries. Today, cars were lined up down the street waiting to park. I just drove by and am hoping the line is smaller after work.

Looks like record turnout.

The Indianapolis Star confirms pjstroh's estimation of a large turnout.

e.g. "At Holy Cross precinct, turnout is 'off the hook', poll worker said. More voters by 9 am than all day last election."

e.g."DELVAN ROEHLING, INSPECTOR in Marion County says he's never seen anything like this election"

DonDiego supposes the excitement is unlikely due to Hillary's participation.

I think that's great, that people are actually turning out in droves to try and make a difference in who represents them. It was the same in Va., not a huge line but bigger than I've ever seen. Too bad the whole thing is mostly rigged.

We choose the nominee, not the voters: Senior GOP official

" Political parties, not voters, choose their presidential nominees, a Republican convention rules member told CNBC, a day after GOP front-runner Donald Trump rolled up more big primary victories.

"The media has created the perception that the voters choose the nomination. That's the conflict here," Curly Haugland, an unbound GOP delegate from North Dakota, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Wednesday. He even questioned why primaries and caucuses are held.

Haugland is one of 112 Republican delegates who are not required to cast their support for any one candidate because their states and territories don't hold primaries or caucuses." *

The Dems aren't much better with their delegates and how they appropriate them.


Question: If Trump wins overwhelmingly, and I mean pretty much sweeps here out(biggie being CA.) can the RNC actually deny him the nomination for real? I seem to hear and read a few different opinions on the subject.

* https://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/16/we-choose-the-nominee-not-the-voters-senior-gop-official.html

Lucifer has lost his mojo. He suffered a big defeat today at the small hands of an utterly amoral serial philanderer who happens to be a pathological liar and is ridden with venereal disease.


I like to think he would have lost by only 10 points if Pence hadn’t endorsed him.

sounds like sour grapes to me

Apparently Senator Cruz and malliber2 have somehow gotten their facts wrong.
Ref: gawker - 3 May 2016

Not that there's anything wrong with having venereal diseases !

Answer: It's already over. Like I said a couple of months ago, it's going to be Hillary vs. Trump. And also like I said, the superdelegates will NOT be overruling the voters in either party. Just like they never ever have before.

And about those many Cruz/Kasich/Rubio/Jeb/etc. supporters who will refuse to vote for Trump, and those many Bernie supporters who will refuse to vote for Hillary? That ain't going to happen either. Although that's the next thing folks will be mumbling about.

I voted this morning around 6:45 a.m. zero wait time.

Sanders Wins Indiana's Democratic Primary

Well, well,welly, . . . well, well, . . .

It appears DonDiego's observation was spot on.