Isn’t this supposed to be about delegates? What good does a national poll really do anyway? There should be a poll out on every state, or at least all early states up to super Tuesday. Then project the delegate counts based on polling percentage. That would be a true poll right?
Not exactly.
There are in fact bonus delegates to states that voted GOP last cycle.
There are the GOP equivalent of ‘superdelegates’, who are 15-20% of total delegates and are mostly non-committed. Rules are such this time that primary winners won’t get shut out, but they also won’t get the as great a proportion as their primary election results.
Also, most bound delegates are only bound for the first convention vote. Inattention to who the delegates are usually hurts outsider candidates and their relatively inexperienced supporters.