The media talking heads are all agog chatting up Donald Trump’s “commanding victory” on Super Tuesday.  But they are wrong.  In fact, Trump fell seriously short. While it is true that Trump won 7 out of the 11 states in contention on March 1, he won only 237 out of 562 delegates thus far awarded, for a score of 42%.  Before Super Tuesday, Trump had 82 out of 126 awarded delegates, or 65%.  But after the smoke has now cleared, his new total is 319 out of 688, or 46%.  If his win ratio in future primaries can be limited to what he achieved on Super Tuesday, he will arrive in Cleveland with minority of delegates and will fail to seize the nomination. Trump’s dramatic decline in performance occurred after only five days of serious attacks by other candidates.  There are another 13 days before the next round of major contests on March 15, and 100 days before the decisive 172-delegate winner-take-all California primary on June...(Read Full Post)