Posted on 04/06/2016 11:01:54 AM PDT by TexasCajun
With his win in Tuesday’s open primary in the blue state of Wisconsin, Ted Cruz has now beaten Donald Trump in 11 of 21 states that have been contested to date outside of the South. Cruz has now beaten Trump in three Midwestern states (Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota—with Cruz having finished second and Trump third in the latter), one Northeastern state (Maine), three Plains states (Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas), three Western Frontier states (Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming), and one state outside of the Lower 48 (Alaska).
The South is Trump country, and he is undefeated there, having posted 11 wins and 0 losses in states ranging from Arkansas and Louisiana to the west and Kentucky and Virginia to the north. Yet Trump has now posted a winning percentage of just .429 (with 9 wins and 12 losses) outside of the South. None of the remaining contests are in the South (unless one considers West Virginia to be part of the South, in which case Trump will likely soon be 12-0 in Southern states).
It is striking that Cruz won in Wisconsin despite John Kasich's continued presence in the race. While the Ohio governor is anything but a juggernaut, his presence helps divide the anti-Trump vote. Indeed, it is not clear what other purpose his candidacy is serving at this point.
Kasich's won-lost record is now 1-31. To put that into perspective, his winning percentage (.031) is exactly half of the historical winning percentage of #15 seeds versus #2 seeds in the NCAA Tournament. Outside of his home state of Ohio, Kasich is 0-31, matching the historical winning percentage for #16 seeds. No last-second shot is going to save Kasich.
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The important fact, little noted in the article, is that Cruz has done better than Trump in all states beginning with the letter W. Let’s see. How many are left? /sarc
Cruz will be mathematically eliminated in two weeks.
The Democrats want Trump to be the Republican nominee, so Obama may tell Loretta Lynch to launch a highly-publicized “investigation” of Cruz’s supposed violation of election campaign laws...which the media will give more attention to than they did to Fast and Furious, Benghazi, and the Clinton email scandal combined.
He will, yes, but he doesn’t have the guts to admit it and step down...Just like Kasich...
Propaganda.
Cruz is a distant second yet we are flooded with articles about Cruz winning.
Hey Weekly Standard...so freaking what! You all get the gold star since you can do elementary math and geography. Why don’t you write something useful...like.say calculating the remaining delegates? Idiots.
No, Cruz will be eliminated when Trump gets to 1237, and not a day sooner.
When it comes to the least, Cruz is the most.
The end of this month will finally end Cruz. Oh I’m sure he’ll continue his verbose diarrhea and his ship of fools will continue to eagerly lap it up.
This eerily sounds like the headlines for the Presidential aspirations of George Corley Wallace in ‘68.
Arithmetically challenged are we? I'll say it a little slower ...
He ... will ... be ... mathematically ... eliminated ... in ... two ... weeks.
Unless of course Cruz can win more than half the NY delegates.
well the ivy league lawyer was saying Kasich, Carson, Rubio should all drop out as they could never get the number by the convention , so will he take his own advice or will; his elitist ego get in the way?
Actually NY is a hybrid, It is Winner Take all by District and State if someone wins 50% of the vote.
You only get a delegates if you crack 20%.. but only if no one else cracks 50%.
Cruz will likely only get a handful or two at best of the NY Delegation... and they will likely be in a rare district where Trump didn’t quite get to 50%. Perhaps Cruz will win outright a district or two, but I doubt it.
Two weeks we find out. But I would say smart money is Trump walks away with 80-85 of the New York Delegates.
“or will; his elitist ego get in the way?”
I’ll take “what would a narcissistic globalist do” for 500 Alex.
The parsing has reached Clintonian levels. So many explanation of how the consistent loser is winning. LOL!
What nonsense... Wait until the 26th and lets talk.
WI was a waterloo, but it wasn’t Trump’s.
WI was the most likely place Cruz could pull and upset, and the GOPe helped him get a big win... but where is he going next?
Cruz is most likely not going to win another state before May 10th... Maybe he can pull off an upset in Indiana a week before, but that’s being generous.
He’s basically got Montana, Nebraska and South Dakota left that he can count on for a win, the rest, He’s not likely to win at all.
Cruz basically has shown he is strong in the western caucus states, that’s it. WI did give him a win outside of that, but that was by and large thanks to a very strong and battle hardened GOPe machine in WI helping him. That’s not the place anywhere else left on the map.
Will revisit this thread after 4/26 and see how many states between now and then Cruz manages to win... Odds are zero, with an outside chance of 1.
The GOPe and it’s allies spent like a billion bucks in Wisconsin to get a win for Cruz. You think that some of that wasn’t targeted at the FR? I just dismiss the arrant nonsense as the work of paid agents.
Weekly Standard can not be believed. If I want to read fiction I would not have thought the Weekly Standard was a fiction magazine.
I encourage all of you to stay away from publications that peddle fiction.
Cruz gonna play the moderate now for the NE states. No more Elmer Gantry, Joseph Smith snake oil. But hey he is Mr Consistent!
So if Cruz had not arrogantly ignored the South because he took us for granted them he would be leading not in second.
Ted thinks he knows more than everyone else. Maybe he does. Time will tell
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