Super Tuesday

This election year is utterly different from any other I've lived through, specifically on the GOP side.  It's truly the year of the outsider where Donald Trump continues to prove that the public that he has greater political skill than anybody realized, especially 8 months ago.  

Many in the "establishment" appear vexed about how the Donald is doing so well.  It's quite simple for me to understand. The Donald has proved adept at simplifying issues and getting the electorate passionate about them, specifically immigration, trade with China and overall dissatisfaction with the status quo.  Yes, I'm intrigue how a man who says the following is currently riding great momentum through the GOP primaries:

However, the Donald is able to get voters passionate about issues in a way that make his supporters quite loyal to him.  Additionally, the Donald is perfect rebellion candidate.  Tired of political correctness? There's no question the Donald is politically incorrect. Tired of the old leadership in DC that gave us Iraq, Katrina, the 2008 Great Recession and Obamacare?  The Donald rails against Iraq, incompetent leadership and Obamacare. The Donald simply knows how focus voters attitudes towards simple concepts. 

Another thing that really strikes me about the Donald is his ability to define his opponents and utterly defeat them playing mind games with them.  He calls Jeb Bush timid and a poor candidate.  This causes Jeb Bush to go from the intelligent sounding policy wonk to a man trying to be aggressive when he's not that way.  The Donald questions Ted Cruz's veracity, which allows others who don't like Mr. Cruz to do the same and illuminates the Cruz's campaign dirty campaign tactics.  This made "Trusted Ted" much less trusted.  In the past week he calls Marco Rubio "Little Marco" insinuating that Rubio acts like a child. How does Rubio react?  He basically is trying to convince voters to vote for him by telling them that the Donald "wet his pants" and that they are being duped by a con man. Not exactly a way an adult likes to be talked to when someone is trying to change their mind.

Now the Donald is racking up endorsements from all types of folks. If someone told me that a candidate was getting endorsements from Chris Christie and Jeff Sessions, I'd be thinking "Big Tent" candidate, not the Donald.  He's even receiving endorsements from interesting places:

Si j’étais américain, je voterais Donald TRUMP… Mais que Dieu le protège !

— Jean-Marie Le Pen (@lepenjm) February 27, 2016

Le Pen is the leader of the National Front, the French Nationalist, anti-immigrant party.

Alas, I guess I need to make a prediction.  There are 15 states voting on Super Tuesday that are giving delegates out proportionally.  So here's my delegate breakdown:

Republicans:

The Donald 285 delegates
Rubio 175 delegates
Cruz 100 delegates
Kasich 10 delegates
Carson 5 delegates

Oh, the Democrats are voting too?  Well, this race is coming to a quick end:

Hillary 700 delegates
Sanders 165 delegates

Enjoy (or not) the evening.