With almost all the votes counted on Super Tuesday, Cruz finished with 2.5 million votes, compared to Rubio's 1.9 million and Trump's 2.9 million.  Cruz bettered Rubio by 600,000 votes, which makes him the candidate around which other Republicans opposed to Trump need to coalesce.  The latest polls before Super Tuesday indicated that Texas would be a close race between Cruz and Trump, yet Cruz ended up crushing Trump by 17 percentage points and nearly half a million votes.  Trump was expected to beat Cruz in Oklahoma – so the latest polls told us.  Yet Cruz defeated Trump decisively there.  He also won the small-population state of Alaska. What of Rubio?  He did better in Virginia than polls predicted but still finished second to Trump.  He won one primary, Minnesota, beating Cruz by only 8,000 votes.  He did overtake Cruz for second place in Georgia, but only by less than one percent.  He finished a distant third to...(Read Full Post)