Ted’s Not Dead, Yet

Politico: “It’s probably a lot safer to declare Clinton the prohibitive favorite to win her party’s nomination than it is to coronate Trump — for no other reason than Ted Cruz just won the biggest delegate prize so far, his home state of Texas, and took the smaller prize of neighboring Oklahoma as well as Alaska. Add Iowa and Cruz has the appearance of a viable, deadly serious Trump challenger with enough momentum to pose a major challenge.”

“But even his own people admit he’s less of a threat than appearances suggest. The math just doesn’t quite add up for the Texas tea partier — unless tonight’s victories spawn a major wave of anti-Trump momentum, spurred perhaps by the (possible) exit of fellow evangelical conservative Ben Carson. Despite the Donald’s somewhat tenuous grasp of biblical chapter and verse, Trump bested Cruz with evangelicals is Southern states outside the Lone Star.”