The good news is that your man Bern won big in Michigan in defiance of the polls, which had all predicted a victory for Hillary. It always pleases me when the polls are proven wrong, too bad it doesn't happen more often.
Wiki has a map that shows who won in which counties, but it doesn't give any numbers. Cruz took a couple of counties in the Western U.P. and four or five counties strung out between Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor. The rest of the state, including the Detroit area, went to Trump. The polls had predicted a big win for Trump, and that's what happened. Trump is still ahead on the total delegate count, but Cruz seems to be slowly closing the gap. If Rubio were to drop out and give his delegates to Cruz, he would have it in the bag.
Two guys on the Bloomberg Channel were talking about Trump when I was checking the stock market numbers, so I turned the sound on for awhile. They seemed to be saying that Trump might not be as bad as he appears. They think that a lot of the Trump bull shit is just theatrics and, now that he has everybody's attention, he might settle down and play nice. It makes sense when you think of it. The Reps started out with about two dozen candidates, most of whom were largely unknown to the general public. Any one who was serious about winning would need to find a way to distinguish himself from the rest of the pack. Trump already had a reputation for being a mean prick from his TV show, so maybe he decided to play that part in the debates. Of course the possibility exists that he really is a mean prick in real life, and that he was just playing himself on his show. I never watched it but, in every ad I saw for the show, Trump was telling somebody that they were fired, and he seemed to be enjoying it.
Be that as it may, it seems apparent that whoever wins the GOP nomination will be an extremist, and there's still a fair change that your man Bern will win the Dems. What do you suppose the wishy-washers will do if that happens? As I said before, the GOP ran moderate candidates the last two elections, and they both lost. How much worse could they do with Trump or Cruz bearing the standard? What have they got to lose, congress? The congress usually rides in on the president's coat tails but, two years later, all bets are off. Of course, if Hillary wins the Dem Nomination, the left wing nuts will combine with the wishy-washers to put her over the top, unless, they are so pissed that their man Bern got dumped that they stay home and pout. Yeah, why don't you guys do that?
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