Bush will get nomination Trump will run 3rd party and Sanders will get dem nomination. Results will be Sanders 56%,Trump 30% and Bush 14% it will go down in the history books as the last hurrah of the republican party and the birth of a new tea party led republican party run by Donald Trump!
Americans self-identify more as conservative than moderate or liberal, basically a 45% conservative, 35% moderate and 20% liberal breakdown. The exit polls show about a 30-40-30 breakdown respectively, demonstrating that far more conservatives are not showing up at the polls than any other group.
IF Trump goes Third Party, I think he wins with all those conservatives that have not been going to the polls for years because the candidates were a bunch of gutless, soulless morons that spoke in 'word salad' complexities and mealy mouthed nuanced blather.
I think the vote would wind up 30% Sanders, 48% Trump, 22% Bush, with Trump winning the plurality of the general vote and a land slide of electoral college votes.
But I hope you are right about the death of the Republican Party. It is nothing more than the legitimizing counterparty to the Democrats ongoing swindle.
When criminal syndicates control cities like the drug dealers today control so many of our city politics, they have to have police, like it or not as that gives legitimacy to their government in the eyes of the great unwashed masses.
The GOP performs that role for the Dimocrats by playing like they are opposition when the reality is that they are teamed up with the Democrats in a duopoly to control this nations political system.