[AmericanInTokyo]

Yes. But. What was your impression of the audio link? It gets good about 10 minutes into it and traces back Cruz' team's work on mining big data and creating a powerful ground organization adapted not only the the differing state party rules, but a political marketing campaign down to the idiosyncrasies of the precinct level. Quite remarkable. I believe that is what is meant by "smart" in this context and that Trump was also catching on to this critical element of delegate selection by midstream bringing on Paul Manafort to extract his bacon from the fire after some humiliating state selection losses.

Check out the video. I think it adds to this debate of "comprehensiveness" vs. "unfair".

[AmericanInTokyo]

Ping!! :-)

[blueplum]

I think what else it adds to, is the reality that he’s been campaigning for president in the background ever since he set foot in DC and ‘serving’ as Texas’s senator was a pretense. He wasn’t even honest enough to admit to Texans, much less the Tea Party, that he was a Canadian when he ran for the Senate and earlier, for Solicitor General (which calls into question the legality of criminal cases he prosecuted). Cruz is not an honest man. And that is why he’s so vengeful about a Trump challenge - he thought he had all the angles covered, and the election all sewed up before he announced - and then Trump happened. A vengeful man does not a good president make.

[arl295]

Bound delegates are bound delegates they are required to vote for the person they are sworn and bound to on the first, and in some cases 2nd and third ballots

Here is the thing, there will be no 2nd or 3rd ballot

The RNC is scared now, they just saw the backlash of what they did in Colorado, Colorado was a testing ground to see if they could steal an election and get away with it.

The result was not good. You have to remember, stopping Trump will cost these people the party, what good is a party with no voters? Can’t win an election without voters.
That becomes a major problem