Donald Trump has been presenting two arguments about the process of choosing a president the last couple of weeks. The first argument is fairly reasonable; that the candidate with the most votes when the convention rolls around should be the nominee, even if he 's short of the 1237 delegate majority. But a darker offshoot of that argument is that the system is "rigged" and that he should be the nominee because everyone else is cheating. Nate Silver thinks both arguments are working in Trump's favor. Polling suggests that a majority of Republicans agree with at least the milder version of Trump’s argument, although the framing of the question matters. Last week’s NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that 62 percent of Republicans thought the “candidate with the most votes in the primaries” should become the nominee in the event that no candidate wins a majority of delegates, compared with 33 percent who said Republicans...(Read Full Post)