You are being way too hard on them.
I have a philosophy called “friend or foe?” if has served me well in my career. It works like this:
Friend: my smallest successes are proof to you that I am a good and smart person to you. My failures only prove to you that I am a fla2ed person. A work in progress.
Foe: my slightest error is pounced upon as proof that I’m stupid, lazy, evil or all three. My greatest accomplishments are ridiculed as lucky or a stopped clock being right twice a day.
Cruz has a lot of foes on FR. Clearly you are one of them.
This time line and context clarifies how little there is to this, though to his foes it is proof, once again of his utter depravity. But opinions vary. :-)
It is not a “little” issue and it doesn’t take Cruz “foes” to see it. O’Reilly blasted Cruz for this, showed that with just 4 votes per district, Cruz would get the lead he won with.
Cruz went out to 1,500 districts with the lie.