I disagree with that assessment. The Corruption of every institution over the last decade plus, makes analyzing the numbers to explain why the Ruling Class candidates ‘win’ a complete joke to me.
With all the fraud, deceit, demonization, malice, corruption and so on that now constitutes the entire system as an in-our-face reality - to continue operating under the delusion that our voice and vote counts - is willful ignorance at best.
An honest person can clearly see the powers that are working in this nation now given the last election and what the GOP has done to hand Obama his dictatorship on a platter while punishing their own for refusing to go along.
Cruz could get 90% of the actual Conservative vote - and Jeb will still be the nominee and everyone will buy the media/Ruling Class ‘analysis’ of how and why Jeb is the ‘only person who can beat Hillary’ which is why he “won the nomination”, and folks like us will offer ridiculous explanations such as failing to get behind a single candidate early for the loss.
Even if our “guy” does “win” look what happened since November.
We are past the point of elections doing anything to uphold what we were or restoring what we had.
We went Soviet. Everyone refuses to believe that, yet the evidence in our face is everyday.
Why is John Ellis Bush the best to beat Hillary? Polls do not bear that out. On what grounds the GOPe can push that narrative?
According to RCP poll averages, Paul & Rubio are the closest to Hillary, not John Ellis Bush.