Civic lesson: Illinois Primary "Loophole"

Huh?

All 69 of Illinois' delegates to the Republican National Convention will be bound to Presidential Candidates based on the results of today's Illinois Presidential Primary.

• 54 National Convention District delegates are elected in a so-called "Loophole" primary (a Delegate Selection Primary combined with an Advisory "beauty contest" presidential preference vote). Each candidate for [District] delegate ... must file a Statement of Presidential Preference supporting a specific presidential candidate, or a statement that he/she intends to run uncommitted [SBE No. P-1E]. District delegates are directly elected by the voters and individually listed on the ballot with their presidential preferences indicated.
• 12 National Convention Statewide Delegates are bound winner-take-all to the candidate receiving the largest number of votes statewide. These delegates do not appear on the ballot and are chosen at the State Convention.
• The 3 party leaders, the National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, will attend the convention, by virtue of their position, bound winner-take-all to the candidate receiving the largest number of votes statewide.

RedState.com further explains -

So, what about the other 54 delegates? That’s where the “loophole” comes in.

Along with voting for presidential candidates, you also vote for the delegates at the same time. This means you can in theory vote for John Kasich (why) in the primary, but vote for Ted Cruz’s delegates in your Congressional District’s race. This means that it is entirely possible for, say, Donald Trump to win the popular vote, and therefore those 15 delegates, but Cruz could win more Congressional Delegates. Though it is rare for such a thing to happen, that is the hope of several conservatives in Illinois and elsewhere.

 Quadrangle also tries to clear the confusion -

Technically, Illinois holds a "loophole" primary in which district-level delegates will be elected directly on the ballot. And that has candidates packing events and pleading for votes around the region. The remainder of the delegates will be divided proportionately among candidates based on their statewide vote, with 15 percent again the minimum threshold to get delegates.

 Totally understood.

Creatine & weights. And voting.

GYM, LOCKER ROOM, TV WITH CNN ON

Guy A: So where do you live?
Guy B: I live in so-in-so.
Guy A: Really? I past right through when I go to work. Say, what you got there?
Guy B: Oh, just some creatine. LIGHTLY SHAKES DRINK.
Guy A: Yea, I do some creatine after workouts, too.

GUY C WALKS IN, OPENS LOCKER TO FETCH GYM BAG
CNN COMMENTARY ON SUPER TUESDAY IS HEARD

Guy B: So did you vote?
Guy A: Nah. I don't like any of them.
Guy B: Meh.
Guy A: Did you vote?
Guy B: Nah.

BOTH LAUGH

Guy C: You know, you got till 7PM to vote.
Guy A: Yea. Did you vote?
Guy C: Nope.

ALL LAUGH.

Guy C: It doesn't really matter who's elected. It [bills] still needs to go through Congress. PICKS UP BAG. See ya.
Guy B: See ya.
Guy A: Bye.

GUY C EXITS

Voter donations in Chicago and Illinois.

Here's an interesting map measuring who donated to who in the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois.

Key takeaways from the interactive map below include: (my comments added)

* Overall, Chicago is a wildly blue city. There's not a zip code in the city limits where the majority of donors gave to Republicans.

Maybe some should consider taking the red pill for a change.

* Chicagoans disproportionately support Hillary. Cook County donated $3 million to her campaign, more than we gave to all the other presidential candidates combined.

Hillary is a familiar name. Add in Hillary has ties to Chicago and Chicagoland. Add in Obama and her ties with him.

* South Shore and Lincoln Park support Hillary most strongly. South Shore had the highest proportion of donors (65 percent) that gave to Hillary; Lincoln Park gave her the highest proportion of its donations (69 percent).

South Shore is predominately black, and probably the "wealthier" predominately black Chicago neighborhoods. Lincoln Park is mostly college educated residents; YUPPIES if I may say so (and I don't say that in a condescending manner since I could be categorized as one -- and I'd embrace it as well).

* Bernie Sanders dominates Rogers Park. A whopping 74 percent of the donors there gave to his campaign.

Go figure. Rogers Park has a sizeable Jewish population with Evanston, a suburb immediately north of the neighborhood. Evanston is to Rogers Park as Summit is to Garfield Ridge/Archer Heights/West Elsdon/West Lawn/Ashburn.

* Our most generous zip code is the Mag Mile area. 60611, home to Water Tower and most other Mag Mile landmarks, donated $651,175.11 to presidential candidates—more than half of that to Hillary.

Mag Mile is alongside the most wealthiest neighborhoods of Chicago e.g. Gold Coast 

* Cook County supports Marco Rubio more than any other Republican. We gave him $549,690—which is still less than the $604,335 we gave Bernie.

Rubio, besides Kasich, is the most "friendly" (R). Kasich is more moderate than Rubio, though. Many see Trump as a bigot, sexist and xenophobic. Many see Cruz as too outspoken about his faith and is a Constitutionalist aka extreme/radical (in their eyes).

* Basically everyone in Chicagoland hates Donald Trump. Out of roughly 6,000 political donors in Cook County, only 40 gave to Trump, and they only gave him a paltry $18,172.

See: March 11, 2016 Trump protest.

* Even in the zip codes where Trump is most popular, he's not popular at all. In Lemont, the zip code where the highest percentage of donors gave to his campaign, only two people gave Trump money.

I believe Lemont is traditionally (D). It's also a somewhat wealthy suburb. It's the (D) equivalent to Glen Ellyn.

This picture, if you're familiar with the demographics of Chicago and Chicagoland also comes to no surprise. Besides South Shore/Calumet Heights, all mentioned neighborhoods or suburbs are mostly college educated, vote (D), are liberal socially and economically,  and are, you guessed it, white. South Shore/Calumet is predominately black. Do you see a pattern with Clinton voters? I do.

Let's look at Sanders' donations.

As mentioned before, Rogers Park is where the highest Jewish population resides (mostly secular if not Reformed). Oak Park, in terms of ethnic diversity, is the most diverse inner ring suburb of Chicagoland and nationally, I believe, is held as a standard for integration. Oak Park residents tend to be socially liberal and college educated. Lincoln Square/Albany Park, like Rogers Park, has a sizeable Jewish population - mostly orthodox - and a large Hispanic and East Asian population as well. LWS is a huge Hispanic enclave. Evanston, like Rogers Park, has a big Jewish population. Lake View is more bohemian (home to famous Boystown) than Lincoln Park. Edgewater, Uptown and Logan Square are the cheapest North Side neighborhoods for the "urban cool" hipster crowd looking for a not-so sanitized urban experience (Uptown is infamous for its crack whores, prostitution, thievery, while Logan Square gets some of Wicker Park's boho vibe), so Sanders appeal is understandable. They're in love with socialism and think wee is a victim of prejudice.

The southern suburbs, which I'm more familiar with than the north suburbs, turned out be as expected. Rubio faired alright as did Cruz, depending on which suburb you clicked on. The further south you go into the farmland (R)s donations grow.

My Cruz & Sanders rally experience.

Yesterday I attended a rally in the suburbs of Chicago; to be exact I went to Glen Ellyn where a Ted Cruz rally was being held around noon. Last Friday I attended a Sanders rally. First, I will recall Cruz.

The following is what I experienced.

• Cruz likes his rallies, if they aren't held in a convention center, to be rather posh. This past Friday he was a guest speaker at Chicago's Palmer House. Tickets cost $$. I assume most at the Friday non-free event were mostly older than 40 and white. In my case the Glen Ellyn rally was free and was held in a nice wedding banquet hall. 
• Glen Ellyn would be considered an upper-middle suburb. About $90K per household. High $39K per capita.
• When I arrived the line wasn't long, just a bunch of people waiting outside the banquet doors. People were filling out "info cards" and were buying Cruz football jerseys ($45 each as opposed to $50 on his site).
• There was no one telling people to empty out their purses and bags. There was no security vetting the crowd. You simple had to walk in with a smile and present your ticket if you had one.
• People in my age bracket, millennials, weren't smoking like the Bernie Sanders crowd (which I will give a post later this week). They were mostly better dressed than the Sanders millennial crowd.
• Speaking of millennials being present - they were a minority. Most of the crowd that I've observed were on the older side, say 40 and up. To bring in race, many were white; some of Cruz's event helpers were Asian and black who were well-dressed. Very professional.
• As the banquet doors opened and people filed in, I was able to snag a seat near the press stage where the network cameras were to be set-up. I over heard an elderly woman saying to another to not take radiation because it causes cancer. "Don't let them [doctors] talk you into therapy you're unsure of." She was talking about mmograms because her doctor encouraged to take one for her left breast as well as her right. She didn't trust her.
• The event started only three minutes late. Cruz was on stage within 15 minutes after his introduction.
• A local conservative talk show host, Wheaton State Representative Jeanne Ives and a nearby black minister introduced Cruz. The talk show host talked about conservatism and Cruz's consistency as compared to Trump; Ives talked about her military sons and her trusting Cruz on being Commander of Chief (she, like her son Nick, is a West Point grad); the minister also talked about conservatism and religious life. 
• Before Cruz took the stage, the minister led the audience in saying the Pledge of Allegiance and a prayer. A lot of "Amen!"s were shouted when he asked the audience to pray.
• About halfway through Cruz's rally an animal rights activist interrupted. She and her partner in crime were escorted out.
• There was a huge "Trusted" backdrop in the other half of the banquet hall. People where getting their picture taken there afterwards.
• My placard was "stolen" underneath my seat. In quotes because I sorta let them have it - without my permission. The story goes as this: A group of ladies were searching for a placard for another, who was sitting right next to me, who asked where they got theirs. "Oh, there's one underneath that seat." That seat was mine. The entire rally she was waving it. Whatever. It's not like Cruz will get the (R) nomination let alone win Illinois since it'll be Trump for both. I remember getting a Romney placard and we all how 2012 turned out so I was a little hesitant to even actually want one. I gotta learn my lesson.
• I'll mention my peers again, though on a more superficial level. I will admit the females I saw were rather attractive. In fact, (R) women tend to be more attractive than (D) women for whatever reason, or at least the conservative side of campus liberalism and onward. *See: Emily Jashinky, Tomi Lahren, Katie Pavlich. 
 

The entire speech is below.

Onto my Sanders rally held at a suburban high school on the southwest side of Chicago. Summit is a low-middle community.

•  School buses transported people from the Toyota Park stadium to the school since there was limited parking due to the community being located in a rather blue-collar, old semi-urban area.
• During the bus ride a high school student, who later waited in line in front of me, could not believe that his friend of going to the Trump rally at UIC Pavilion. As he said, "He was drawing a stars and stripes on the poster. Then drew an eagle ... I said 'Why? Why support this man?' I couldn't believe it." 
• A fellow bus passenger was talking with a the mentioned student's group of friends, who noted that most of Trump supporters were white versus the ethnic diversity of Sanders supporters. She then proceeded to say that she was part Native American. The woman was white. Elizabeth Warren 2.0?
• Said woman encouraged the teenagers to go on youtube and compare Trump and Hitler speeches. "This is what his supporters are pushing," she proclaimed.
• It was cold, but not too cold outside. I waited for about an 1.5 hours to get into the high school. 
• The buses dropped off its passengers on the corner of Archer & 63rd St. From there we slowly crept forward with Sanders campaign volunteers telling us that no guns, knifes, or any weapons were allowed and to keep our cellphones on (to not be mistaken for a bomb). I said to mom who came with me "It seems like we're entering a CPS," with a chuckle. If Chicago decided to actually incorporate Summit then Argo High School would be a CPS (if you walk one block east towards Harlem Ave. you're in Chicago proper).
• There was a women was with a "Vegan Vote for Sanders" sign. 
• A few teenagers from DuPage County traveled to hear Sanders.
• Many of those who waited in line were youth; mainly 25 and under. I am not sure if many were Argo High School students.
• The people waiting were more ethnically diverse.
• A handful of people smoking. Many were dressed in a very "grunge, alternative" look. 
• The kids in front were rather peppy, excited about the possibility of Sanders becoming the DNC nomination if not POTUS.
• There was a Sanders bus (official) driving down 63rd getting the line cheering every now and then. A lot of honking by cars that passed.
• An anti-Monsanto chalk sign was present. The "Vegans Vote for Sanders" woman took a picture of it. 
• A lot of talk of Trump while waiting by the people behind me. There was no talk about Sanders facing Clinton. 
• When word got out that the Trump rally was cancelled the woman behind me, a UIC alumnus, gleefully expressed her feelings. "Yes! Yes! Get out of Chicago! We don't want you here! Welcome to Chicago and go back to NYC!" Since the story was breaking news to us, we did not know if there was violence - whether it was on Trump supporters or on the protesters. The UIC alumnus said, "Look how peaceful we are here!" (Note: it was the protesters that caused the cancellation and who were rowdy).
• Across the street of the high school there was a VFW where one man was standing holding a 3 Percenter Flag in silence. One crowd member thought aloud that he might be a Trump supporter. There were some vets in line waiting wearing NRA hats so who knows.
• Security was divided into two lines: bags & no bags. This was causing the line and making it look like there were more people than there were in reality.  Once we filed into our own security lines the process was painless.
• The inside track & field house was humid since everyone was conglomerated in one place with very little ventilation of cool air. There was one young woman who had to sit down because of overheating - the firefighters that were on scene assisted her.
• When compared to the people who introduced Cruz (more local), Sanders had more political prominent backers. Jesse Jackson's son and Jesús "Chuy" García - the sole rival for Mayor Rahm Emmanuel in last years mayoral race. 
• Sanders appeals to a much broader audience. Blacks, Hispanics, dope heads, naive college & high school kids, and Muslims. This comes to no surprise because of Sanders' promises e.g. free college & healthcare, "I like everyone," his dislike for billionaires (not just corporate billionaires). He's the new Obama for The Left. Hillary Clinton has become passe. 
• When Sanders mentioned war, Bush and Cheney, a couple of people in the crowd yelled "War criminals!"
• When speaking about "family values," and when he said "family values" he said it in a very mocking way, he mentioned how he supports single motherhood and a woman's "right" to choose, same-sex adoption and how people who didn't support same-sex unions weren't for "family values."
• Sanders made it clear that he'll use executive orders in order to get what he wants if Congress doesn't approve.
• Marijuana was brought up. Sanders said he would take MJ off the FDA paper as an illegal drug - the people really cheered. He said that he would let states decide to whether or not to make it legal. There was little cheer. 
• It comes to little surprise on why Argo High School was chosen: the surrounding community is a gold mine for (D)s and for politicians like Sanders. Near by Bridgeview has one of the largest Muslim communities. Southwest Chicago is home to mostly Hispanics, union workers and families that traditional voted (D). Since it has a large contingency of non-whites Sanders can pull in a lot of votes.

Sanders' full speech is below.

I have realized that Cruz and Sanders on the opposite side of the political spectrum, both in philosophy, upbringing and who supports them in terms of ethnic background.

Today in the newspaper it was said that Hillary Clinton was visiting the West Side of Chicago, speaking to union workers and visiting the Roseland community, a predominately black Chicago neighborhood for last minute votes. Inner city voter outreach is a  huge advantage to the (D)s. I do not remember Romney visiting places like Roseland on his Midwest campaign tour, and nowhere on Cruz's event page does it have inner city visits. Of course this is all a strategic plan: Get the votes where you know you can appeal.; every campaign is on a budget. The (D)s can travel almost anywhere. The (R)s are practically regulated to the suburbs and the farmland in most blue states.

*I'm fully aware that the listed women are all white, so for some ethnic diversity I will include Mia Love and Michelle Malkin, both who I think are pretty, not to mention older than those I originally listed and married as well. 

Some PUA douche seemed to have hacked my account.

There's some annoying rant about women and sheeple overlapping parts of this page. I plan to get rid of it by this weekend.

As it reads (or as what my cursor can copy & paste) -

It’s The Story of Civilization, Sulla is someone I would put into the bad guy category. The Senate deserved worse than simply loosing power. (I see you have a related post that argues for Sulla’s virtue, but I am not going to study it. Things to do with my life in my present that I can actually influence.) Typically, it takes a virtuous strongman, a seeming impossibility but as you recount there are Roman exemplars, to found something civilized. Except for the First Bank of the United States, childless and probably impotent George Washington was largely that. Good men who are not vicious about defending their sovereignty are not good on this earth (and elsewhere is a fairy tale). After the way the Roman unwashed betrayed the Gracchi, if we believe Aristotle that the policy of government matters and not the form, then it must be that no general population within the Roman Empire deserved or could support civilization. No sense in making a purse from a sow’s ear. Waste of one’s life to try. 

And so it is today. Reform without a change in population membership is doomed to fail. No population of moochers will allow reform against their hopes of mooching. We get the government we deserve. WNs are correct as far as focusing on the we as the critical political input. Hitler was not all wrong because half of national socialism is correct enough, though I would prefer a federation with a loose cultural (and democratically violent) sense of nationhood like Sumer, Hellas, late Holy Roman Empire that birthed institutional Germany, the early Dutch Republic (in this case I know only to a degree), the early United States (in this case I know only to a degree). 

At this point in our time the fruitful question is not what is the correct color commentary on the political circus but what to do for personal power (call it empowerment if it makes you feel better) in certain decline. I never wanted control over others, just over myself. Turns out husbandry of sheeple is a prerequisite to that. He who controls human stupidity controls the world. That is our struggle. Evolution dies not need your permission or moral authority. Universal morality is bullshit. 

If the first Octavius-esque figure is an evil destroyer of Club Beltway, that is a good I will celebrate privately. Regardless, the question facing each of us is how to thrive in a Principate. That is what we are now socially. If you (any dear reader) understand female nature and it’s employment by the Frankfurt School, if you understand the theocratic imperatives of the Jewish nation against the rest of humanity lumped together as ‘Gentiles’ (and I note the other two Abrahamic religions are offshoots with similar globalist utility), as members of a single ‘nation’ because non-Jewish distinctions matter not, then maybe it will dawn on whomsoever you are that players win in decline. Sheeple define the game for the rest of our lives and beyond. Can’t change the game without winning it. What his preeminent flip-over will do or can do for ‘the people’, who knows? Civilization happens not because there is no concentration of power but because that concentration of power is used at a higher order of cooperation (and ‘love’) for even more absolute power of humanity. Down with sheeple. Down with accumulations of relative power at the expense of absolute power. Aspire for power and the practical love to wield it wisely but constructively. If you want a virtuous strongman done right, do it yourself. PUA is the way. Be strong in your social life. 

Until you understand that women are simple, you will never understand humans and therefore politics. I challenge the intellects at this blog to stop doing passive commentary that won’t make a tinker’s damn and start some sort of subculture or subculture philosophy that can win. Maybe that is best done offline. Your time and vitality are not renewable. Make it count. I visit for lack of better options. Decline makes losers. There is no intelligent life in my real life. That of course is a fundamental that I am addressing the best I can. At least when someone else states the intellectual obvious (e.g. OP) it somehow help me be less insane or more sane in a world of primitives, same thing except for the metadata of one’s identity. Now back to my fight for my power among the vermin. It has nothing to do with politics as defined for the foolish consumer. I have no representative fighting for me. Charm is mightier than the sword. Knowing that, you do what?

Ask a socially progressive secularist about social conservatives.

 You'll get a person who gives a caricature and spews out pure hatred.

The real hate and contempt is towards social conservatives, not the LGBT, women, Muslims or blacks.

When said his views were bigoted he replied -

LOL atheists.

Me: Hmmm. I think your materialist view on the universe is misguided. I suggest reading some Ed Feser.
Atheist: Feser is as full of crap as William Craig is. The cosmological argument is almost as bad as the complexity argument, so stop wasting my time with your philosophical bullshit books.
Me: I never mentioned Craig and I doubt you actually read any of Feser's articles let alone read any of his books.
Atheist II: Christianity is a bunch of fairy tales. I'm 16, I've come to realize this so why not you?
Me: I doubt you're 16. Might as well say you're a zygote who's about to be aborted. Adios!