[GraceG]

Linseed needs to shut the hell up, no one listens to this loser anymore.

I would say Trump or Cruz both have a good chance of defeating Shrillary.

[ek_hornbeck]

Graham sure gets a lot of media attention for a candidate who could barely poll ahead of Gillmore in the primaries. You don't see other drop-out candidates (with the exception of GOP royalty Jeb Bush) get their supposed expert opinions quoted so often, do you? How often does anyone see also-rans Bobby Jindal or Rand Paul quoted as some sort of kingmakers?

The reason for is that Linda Graham is the sort of Republican the liberal media can respect and support.

[AustinBill]

I would say Trump or Cruz both have a good chance of defeating Shrillary.

I don't think that's a good assumption. Right now the media is sympathetic to Cruz only because he's viewed as someone who can "stop Trump". If you assume that he can successfully do that and somehow become the republican nominee then that "tailwind" will vanish overnight and he'll face the same sort of overt media hostility that Trump has enjoyed from the outset.

You can rest assured that by the time Hillary & Co. are done with Ted he'll be painted as a rabid theocrat who shouldn't be let anywhere near the nuclear codes. The eligibility questions will also take on new life exactly as Trump predicted once the general election campaign is underway.

The net is the best Cruz can hope for is a repeat of Romney's electoral map in 2012. No blue state is going to switch to Cruz, and he'll have a lot of trouble in the purples.

Trump's crossover appeal, by contrast, will put formerly "safe" blue states in play all over the place even as he sweeps the purples. And since no red state is going to go for Hillary over Trump, odds are that Trump wraps things up early on November 8th.