What did you do with the delegates from the "missing states" of Colorado and Wyoming? NYT is not the only one to leave these states out. The rules in both states are so convoluted, it would take 3 pages to explain them. Wyoming did report its first dozen delegates, but has another 17 to select, Colorado has finished phase 1 (choosing delegates to in turn choose the National delegates), but because there was no statewide straw poll, it's hard to get a picture on where Colorado will come down on April 8-9, when it holds 8 different conventions of precinct-elected delegates, to determine to whom Colorado's 37 delegates will go. I'm a Rubio delegate to the State Assembly on April 9th, will be voting either Rubio (he's still a candidate, just suspended, not done, he can still get delegates), or Cruz. It looks to me like Cruz will do very well, but it is difficult to get a clear picture.
>>What did you do with the delegates from the “missing states” of Colorado and Wyoming? NYT is not the only one to leave these states out. The rules in both states are so convoluted, it would take 3 pages to explain them.
I’m aware that there are different rules for different states - some pledged some unpledged and then Colorado :-)
Basically Republican ‘unpledged delegates’ are similar to the Dem ‘superdelegates’ but only a fraction of the whole vs. the Dems. It’s their way of having a ‘brokered convention’ without actually having one. lol
But I think the calculator gives an approximation of what is needed to get to a plurality - for Cruz or Trump. Trump’s path to majority is easier but not easy given his percentages so far.