[grania]

This article states that establishment Republicans are only 40 - 45% of the party. That's not a majority. My experience in the world around me and judging by what I read here, everyone who isn't an establishment Republican despises them. Considering that they aren't going to win many new voters to their side, it's in Ted Cruz's favor.

I don't think the country's mood, across the political spectrum, is to want over-the-hill establishment choices. If the dems are force-fed hillary, that's a real opening to bring in younger voters, religiously oriented dems, and others who don't believe a word hillary says.

[Lumper20]

I don’t conclude the same. I think Cruz attracts the Libertarians on the conservative side and that might be 5-6 % while Rand Paul gets the other 9-10%. We shall see as it is a ways off.