If you run these numbers “in reverse” for the general (election), assuming that the Dem candidate will get 66 million votes, then we are looking at something like 16.3 MILLION Cruz team members, and God knows how much money, to give Cruz a comfortable(?) victory with 70 million votes. (I’m assuming turnout will be high.)
Holy crap...
But, the candidate has to get there, first, and most states will be tougher for Cruz than Iowa was.
I wonder if anyone knows how many total Republican primary votes Romney got in 2012?
Getting to the convention will not be like kicking over a set of dominoes. It is hard to imagine Cruz duplicating the effort he put into Iowa.
Take, for example, Super Tuesday will involve 24 states. Unlike Iowa, which only determined the proportional delegates to the 99 county conventions, Super Tuesday will determine delegates to the national convention. How will Cruz handle those 24 states?