Ted Cruz: Now the odds-on favorite

CNN Politics ^ | April 6, 2016 | David Gergen, Senior Political Analyst

[IM2MAD]

Ted Cruz: Now the odds-on favorite?

Not in this household!

[CA Conservative]

According to Green Papers, there are 715 pledged delegates still to be awarded in the upcoming contests. According to RCP, Trump has 743 pledged delegates after Wisconsin, meaning he still needs 494 pledged delegates to reach 1237.

494/715=69.09% of the remaining pledged delegates needed to clinch.

That also means that if Kasich and Cruz can combine for about 250 delegates, they can insure an open convention. Actually, they need about 225, but 250 would give them a cushion...

[firebrand]

Yes, I didn’t see anything about the oddsmakers in that piece. I did get the booming voice of the Great Princeton Debater, though, before I was finished reading.

[firebrand]

Rush has probably been bought. So many other people have been, why not him?

We are a money-mad culture.

[firebrand]

And you don’t think they would be entertainment as well? Those weren’t debates and that wouldn’t be either. More like a war of off-the-topic rejoinders or a Don Rickles impersonation contest.

[Theodore R.]

Despite all this and that, the simple likelihood remains that the American people like Mrs. Bill and will show so accordingly on November 8.

[firebrand]

Thanks for admitting that Cruz is wheeling and dealing. He has to be buying delegates. It is illegal to promise them anything in his administration as a reward, and he would never ever do anything illegal. Not unless he was out on a golf course or something.

WPTZ on buying delegates

Trump has as much money as any of them but what you are saying is Cruz is doing the buying or illegal promising.

[WildHighlander57]

Thanks for the info; more calculationl

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3418598/posts?page=1#1

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3418598/posts?page=6#6

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3418598/posts?page=22#22

[publana]

No. CRUZ is running a campaign. Trump has finally realized he has been left with his pud in the dirt; thus the new hires. Too little. Too late.

[firebrand]

Typical vulgarity.

You call it “running a campaign.” Others call it “a ground game.” Those less complimentary call it “wheeling and dealing.” I call it “buying delegates.”

[Fresh Wind]

Gergen is campaigning for Hillary.

[MIA_eccl1212]

TED CRUZ, the ODD ONE Favorite

should be the title

[unsycophant]

Ah, but now he is Cruz’s “David Rodham Gergen”!