Trumps is in!

[Tom Joad]

Due to the way South Carolina allocates it's delegates, Trump won all 50 of them with only 33% of the vote.

http://www.kiiitv.com/story/31274267...s-50-delegates

Trump is leading the delegate count in the Republican presidential nomination.

The billionaire businessman hauled in all of South Carolina's 50 delegates in Saturday's primary, giving him a total of 67. Sen. Ted Cruz has 11 delegates and Sen. Marco Rubio has 10.

The South Carolina results marked a major disappointment for Cruz, whose path to the nomination requires strong performances across the South. The Texas senator finished well behind Trump in the state known as the gateway to the South - despite Cruz's appeal among evangelical Christians and his southern roots.

Based on the way the state's delegates are apportioned, neither Cruz nor Rubio won any in what is shaping up as a three candidate race.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Due to the way South Carolina allocates it's delegates, Trump won all 50 of them with only 33% of the vote.

http://www.kiiitv.com/story/31274267...s-50-delegates

And that isn't the only state that does that or something similar.

Convention: State will bind delegates to the national convention at a state/territory convention. Other conventions will leave the delegation unbound.

Proportional: State will proportionally allocated delegates based either on the statewide primary/caucus vote or on the combination of the statewide and congressional district votes.

Proportional with Trigger: State will follow above proportional rules but allows for a winner-take-all allocation if a candidate wins a majority of the vote statewide or at the congressional district level.

Hybrid: State will follow some form of winner-take-more plan (i.e.: winner-take-all by congressional district) or directly elects delegates on the primary ballot.

Winner-take-all: State will award all delegates to the plurality winner of the primary or caucus

http://frontloading.blogspot.com/p/2...cation-by.html