I'm confused as to how this closed the gap. If Ted won 40 for the day and Trump won 58 for the day...didn't Trump's lead increase by 18?
Also, If Ted needed to win ~85% of remaining delegates, and every time he doesn't get 85%, doesn't the percent go up for the next primary? For instance, from here on out, would he not have to win 86%...and so forth. Is this logic wrong?
Sometimes I wish FR had a Like Button because you got it exactly right. How does the following Headline sound? Cruz wins by falling even further behind!
Ted uses Common Core math...
The gap got larger not smaller!
Wishful thinking for the media/anti_Trump crowd...
Utah was the last caucus state. A total of 171,902 people participated, versus 523,584 in Arizona, a state Trump won by a margin of 23%.
Most of the rest of the states are winner-take-all or winner-take-most. The most Cruz can hope to do at this point, is deny Trump just enough delegates that he doesn’t get the nomination on the first ballot, thus allowing the Establishment to install Romney (or some other reliable loser).
But that will keep the FR purists happy.
This isn’t fair. You are using real math instead of Cruz/Core math.
I’m confused as to how this closed the gap. If Ted won 40 for the day and Trump won 58 for the day...didn’t Trump’s lead increase by 18?
Also, If Ted needed to win ~85% of remaining delegates, and every time he doesn’t get 85%, doesn’t the percent go up for the next primary? For instance, from here on out, would he not have to win 86%...and so forth. Is this logic wrong?