{"id":14616,"date":"2016-03-09T02:59:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T07:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=14616"},"modified":"2016-03-09T04:00:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T09:00:15","slug":"lets-make-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=14616","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s make a deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rubio significantly underperformed the polls and estimates on March 8th.  If the objective is to get Trump out of the way, Rubio needed to put his big boy pants on and leave the campaign over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>While Cruz won a surprisingly strong victory in Idaho, Trump lost no ground as he picked up the losses from Rubio and Carson<\/p>\n<p>Next Tuesday is the make or break day &#8211; it&#8217;s the winner take all primaries<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nFlorida    99 Winner take all  Trump +20\r\nIllinois   69 Proportional     Trump +10\r\nMissouri   52 Winner take all  (No poll?)\r\nN Carolina 72 Proportional     Trump +10 \r\nOhio       66 Winner take all  Trump +3 (Kasich)\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Thr train is running out of track, the plane is running out of runway, Richard Petty is running out of laps&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The remaining primaries with 50+ delegates or WTA<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nArizona   March 22   58 WTA  Trump +6 old poll\r\n    (Senator McCain may lose primary)\r\nWisconsin April  5   42 WTA  Trump +10\r\nNew York  April 19   95 Pro  Trump +25\r\nPenn      April 26   71      Trump +3\r\nDelaware             26 WTA  No poll\r\nMaryland             38 WTA  Trump +17\r\nIndiana    May    3  57      No poll\r\n<strong>California June   7 172 WTA  Cruz +3 over Trump<\/strong>\r\nMontana              27 WTA  No poll\r\nNew Jersey           51 WTA  Trump +17\r\nS Dakota             29 WTA  No poll\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>To summarize, the RNC has a pretty binary choice at this point &#8211; get Kasich and Rubio to quit now and fully back Cruz and maybe win Florida and Ohio for Cruz OR get used to Donald Trump as the candidate.   Delay just ensures a Trump victory or chaos at the convention.<\/p>\n<p>Probably more important is in the remaining debates, it would one on one, with Cruz bringing more clarity why Trump is not a Conservative and not a Republican.  Cruz needs to win some states by 50+ percent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubio significantly underperformed the polls and estimates on March 8th. If the objective is to get Trump out of the way, Rubio needed to put his big boy pants on and leave the campaign over the weekend. While Cruz won &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=14616\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14616"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14629,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14616\/revisions\/14629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}