I’ve noted that as well that pundits and media types fail to mention that Wisconsin has an open primary and democrats and independents are free to vote in the GOP Presidential primary.
The Wisconsin polls showing Trump trailing Cruz by double figures are of registered republicans and do not reflect democrat/independent crossover voters. In reality, it is close to being tied between Trump and Cruz if crossover voters are considered.
While Cruz does have a big lead of Republican voters, Trump also will have lots of crossover blue collar union democrats and independents voting for him. We will see Tuesday night if Trump gets enough crossover support to erase Cruz’s lead amongst registered Republicans and eke out an upset.
Yep, that was my first question when I kept hearing Cruz was leading in Wisconsin, is it an open primary?
I am supporting Cruz and his ground game is good, but Cruz is looking to be behind as a candidate, and that can add him to a sad bunch losing to a relatively unknown, politically speaking.
Cruz has been a Great Conservative voice when there was few.
I was waiting for someone to point this out. Add in the fact that many of these polls are using just 400 republican voters, a mere couple dozen rat crossovers will impact the final percentages in a meaningful way. I would have Cruz at +2% as of this weekend.