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So I\u2019m here at the computer, looking at the screen refresh at Real Clear Politics<\/a>, telling me that Cruz has resoundingly trounced Trump, with nearly a 20 point margin, while I procrastinate on washing up the dishes in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

(I made a batter-fried chicken recipe, in another of my series of experiments with the new deep-fat fryer<\/a>, since Valli Produce had skinned chicken drumsticks on sale last weekend. \u00a0It came out OK, but the batter stuck to the basket, and only afterwards did I check online and find recommendations to not set it in the basket but lower the chicken pieces into the oil directly and let them cook for a few seconds before letting go. \u00a0It was also a cornmeal batter, so it had a certain corndog taste to it that the kids liked. \u00a0But now I\u2019ve got a lot of cleaning up in the kitchen.)<\/p>\n

On the one hand, really, it\u2019s a relief, to see that tonight\u2019s results further reduce the likelihood of Trump getting an outright majority come the conclusion of the primary\/caucus process. Presuming that, indeed, no one has a majority, what happens\u00a0at the convention is anyone\u2019s guess (and we\u2019ll be just returning from our trip to Europe when it starts, so I\u2019ll even miss a lot of the debate and discussion and punditry just beforehand), but it seems highly unlikely that Trump will succeed in luring other delegates onto his side, which means that at least the nightmarish scenario of Trump vs. Clinton wouldn\u2019t come to pass.<\/p>\n

But Cruz? \u00a0It\u2019s a crazy world in which it\u2019s a relief<\/em> to see him coming out on top. \u00a0Sure, I cringe when I hear people criticizing the smirky quality to his smile \u2014 partly because I come from a long line of bad smilers and think it has nothing to do with one\u2019s sincerity and a lot more to do with whether your face cooperates. \u00a0But it\u2019s still an upside-down world in which you\u2019re pleased to see Cruz \u2014 supporter of the flat tax, of carpet-bombing ISIS-held territory, of returning to the Gold Standard, who kicked off his campaign at Liberty University, whose debate answers about the hard times many people are experiencing always turn to his tax plan as the solution to all ills, who claims he\u2019ll eliminate the IRS (and sheepishly admits that some<\/em> agency will have to administer tax collection), as well as the Departments of Energy, Education, Commerce, and HUD, who has no healthcare plan to speak of other than to \u201copen insurance markets across state lines, expand Health Savings Accounts, and delink health insurance from employment\u201d (really, that\u2019s all his website says<\/a>, and apparently there isn\u2019t any detailed plan<\/a> behind that list of items, no tax credits, for instance, or changes in tax treatment of employer-sponsored plans, for instance, to implement the delinkage), oh, c***, this is depressing, suck it up, if Carly can support him, you can too<\/em> \u2014 when you\u2019re pleased to see Cruz win a primary.<\/p>\n

But, beyond that, it\u2019s always fun to see Sanders win a Democratic primary. \u00a0Does he have a chance of winning the majority of electorally-determined votes and leaving the nomination in the hands of the party-insider superdelegates? \u00a0Probably not much of one, but wouldn\u2019t that be a entertaining\u00a0outcome, to watch a battle over whether The People or The Establishment have their way?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"