wow.. this caught me off guard.
Texas hasn’t been polled in awhile, and I had been placing Texas in Trump column.
If Texas goes for Cruz... that could extend the primary beyond Florida. Texas isn’t winner take all, but it does have a 20% threshold. This could mean they could end up splitting the delegates between them.
You may have thought that because some people on this forum have been pronouncing that Texas "going all out for Trump" was a fait accompli, even though the evidence didn't support their statement.
I'm also hearing pronouncements that if Texas goes for Cruz, it won't matter, which may be another bogus statement since Texan's will have their primaries on Super Tuesday, unlike times past.
I don't know what's going to happen this year in the primaries, but I've decided anyone (media or individuals) who states Cruz is already beat NOW before even one state has held it's primary, are just trying to convince Cruz supporters to "switch" to Trump....or to just stay home and not vote. Smacks a little too much of elitist's games to me.
The last Texas poll I was privy to it was TRUMP up by five, and it was on one of the cable networks. The cable shows post each others polls, and I can’t say whose it was.
However, I am thinking it was right before Cruz began to rise, so it is conceivable that Texas may be have been up more points for Cruz by the 18th, before his fall to TRUMP brought it to a tie in Iowa.