[Eva]

Oh, There is more to the numbers than just New York vs Wisconsin.

So, Trump received 525, 000 votes in New York, the Dtate he calls his home State, and Cruz received 531, 000 in Wisconsin, a state that was supposed to go for Trump.

Kasich won Ohio with 957,000. 432,000 more than Trump received in New York

Cruz won his home state with 1.24 MILLION votes. 715 thousand more than Trump won in his home State.

80% of the voters in New York voted against Trump. Trump only received 20% of the New York vote.

It is time to unite behind Cruz.

[Bubba Gump Shrimp]

-—in Wisconsin, a state that was supposed to go for Trump.
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I am in Illinois and live 30 miles from WI and own a summer home in WI and I never heard except for anecdotal comments that WI would go for Trump.

Quite the opposite.

[nopardons]

It's long past time to put down that poison cup of Cruz-Aide!

Since ONLY registered GOPs could vote in the N.Y. State GOP presidential primary, your patently ludicrous statement, that Trump only got 20% of that state's votes is about THE most asinine lie, in a post, that I have EVER seen on FR!

Cruz barely managed to get something a bit over 43% of the vote in his ADOPTED home state. He also lost the rest of the Southern states, which were all supposed to be all his!

KaSICKO has ONLY won the state that he is the sitting governor of. LOL

IT IS WAY PAST TIME TO GET BEHIND THE PRESUMPTIVE GOP NOMINEE....DONALD J. TRUMP!

[Nifster]

It would be useful to note how many republicans actually exist in NY

In the general many new voters and Reagan democrats will vote for trump but would never show up for Cruz

[fortheDeclaration]

Millions of New Yorker’s didn’t even vote, those are Independents who will vote for Trump.

[Jack Black]

2DV: Interesting article, thanks for posting.

Eva, of all the replies on this thread yours is at least dealing with the actual issue that either candidate will face: flipping enough states from Blue to Red to get to 270 electoral votes.

Mitt Romney only got to 206.

If one assumes that either man would carry all the states that Romney carried, then you need to find 64 more Electoral Votes somewhere.

Florida is one obvious place to start, with 29. Trump did very well in Florida. Could either Cruz or Trump flip Florida Red? I would say Trump has a lot better chance.

I see the Great Lakes region as the big battleground this time, as it has been so many times in the past. Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin ane Pennsylvania between them have 73 votes. Win them all and you don't need Florida, win Florida and any three of the four will get you there.

Again, who has greater appeal in those States? Kasich won Ohio, with Trump a respectable 2nd. Cruz won Wisconsin (the smallest prize of the four), with Trump in 2nd. Trump won Michigan and looks likely to win Pennsylvania.

And of course general electorates are less conservative than GOP primary voters, and seem less likely to reward Cruz's hard-core conservatism.

My take is that Trump's strong anti-free-trade positions, and slightly more moderate social positions might be pretty attractive to these so-called "Rust Belt" states, and give him a real chance to get to 270 in the Electoral College.

I think Cruz's appeal is stronger in the Red State strongholds.

[faucetman]

Are you really this STUPID?, or are you just pretending to be that stupid? Or are you just a flamer? Or are you sleeping with Ted Cruz?

NY was a Primary. It was a CLOSED Republican primary, only REGISTERED Republicans could vote. Democrats outnumber Republicans in NY by 2 to 1.