The Republican establishment is so freaked out about Trump that they're throwing a bit of weight (not a lot) behind Cruz, mainly, I think, to lead to a deadlocked delegate count at their convention.

Republican members of the House and Senate almost universally loathe Cruz, and there's no way he'd go into a presidential race with anything other than fringe and 'Koch Brothers and gang' support.

I'm all in for Bernie, but that's maybe not much of a selling point. Hillary Clinton would likely trounce Cruz also, as soon as the general public actually learned a thing or two about him. Think the Republicans will attack Bernie with his past? (Ineffectively, but...) Cruz's past is one rich history of conning his way into little pockets of power using the tried and true method of claiming that everything he does is because of God, Jesus, or Ronald Reagan, then getting everyone to hate him by the incredibly awful decisions he makes.

and they roll their eyes like "oh please no". I get the feeling he's even less liked than Trump.

His speeches are so very corny they make me laugh. His delivery style is also soporific, it makes people fall asleep.

He's like a parody of a Republican.

And these days, you have to be really good to be a parody of a typical Republican. It requires truly unprecedented sexism, racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, support for a reverse-taxation bracket for the ultra-wealthy (If you make more than 2 million a year, you get to tax the government!), loving your guns more than any (other) member of your family (Jesus did! What? No guns in the Bible? There are in mine! Argue with me and me and my AR-15 will get all biblical on your ass!), demanding that everything be privatized (people breathe all the time and they don't have to pay for the air? Communism!), and calling for every other mosque in the world to be nuked (every other, because if you nuke them all then you have to make up some other worst enemy of the entire universe - although the encroaching Martian menace might do...). And you've got to mix them all up into insanely creative combinations (We're going to stop the existential threat posed by the lesbian Martian-American Muslim extremists by providing tax relief to every gun company to engrave the Bible on everything they make so that we are righteously prepared for the full-scale nuclear attack on Martian mosques everywhere! And... then... we'll privatize the nuclear fallout so that the market turns it into valuable designer atom-dust - nothing is more sacred than the right to choose for yourself what color your skin will turn into while you undergo your very own very personal 'nuclear enhancements!' All hail Jesus!)

Hail those lesbian Martian-American Muslim extremists indeed!

Last night, we heard on CNN that the Clinton strategy, going forward, will be to "discredit and disqualify" Bernie.

The polls are tightening. Wow, even in Pennsylvania. That is amazing!

Bernie hasn't even begun to work his magic there, and all ready her lead has whittled down to six points. According to some polls, that's a 20 point drop in a couple of weeks. Her 30+ point lead in NY has shrunk to a ten-point lead.

Furthermore, it's obvious now that Bernie polls better against Trump, Kasich and Cruz. Ms. Inevitability is no longer inevitable.

Bernie's got momentum with his Wisconsin win, and he'll win WY on Saturday. That gives him nearly two weeks to work New York. I'm really, really liking what's going on here.

Be prepared for the talking point shit storm, Sanders folks.

states. That was at the very beginning of the campaign.

Now it seems anything they try backfires. Taxes, seriously? More proof coming that Bernie is one of us. Jane does their taxes from home. And on it goes. They are flapping in the wind.

All that being said, NY is going to be tough. Closed primary with closed voter registration. It will be very tough.

I remember when David Brock announced, "Black lives don't matter to Bernie Sanders" in late January.

I couldn't believe what I was hearing, and I was sure that no one would buy into that race baiting. Given, that Sanders has been committed to civil-rights activism since he was a teenager--and given his honesty and his desire to lift everyone up, I could have never imagined the damage that Brock and the Clinton attacks inflicted.

It was very sad to watch that bile take hold.

And no one is asking about those University of Chicago "classmates" of Bernie's who were oh-so willing to thrust themselves into the public spotlight and insist that Bernie was lying about being the person in that protest picture. Those people were LYING. Has anyone examined that? Clearly, Bernie was Swiftboatted. The Swiftboatting didn't work, was because the Internet went to work and obliterated the entire smear as a lie; and the photographer who took the picture stepped forward.

What a disgrace. A very sad, disgusting disgrace.

The Iowa Caucuses hadn't happened when Brock declared, "Black Lives don't matter to Bernie Sanders." Bernie hadn't even begun campaigning in other states. The smears proceeded his campaign. It's really too bad that she used such tactics.

I moved up to Windows calculator from a handheld calculator several years ago. Also, I keep track in Excel.

I like Jane. I am looking forward to saying President and Dr. Sanders.

It won't help her, IMO. It smacks of desperation. Look at what Bernie has accomplished, with the deck stacked against him completely. I can't imagine what Hillary can do at this point to change things, but I don't think scorched earth is the answer.

I also don't think the gun business will do it...too may gun owners in NY and PA. I'm speaking about people who hunt, like all the men in my family always have. I have seen it with them and their friends. They are reasonable about background checks, etc., and they don't like being lumped in with people who shoot up churches or Planned Parenthood sites. Again, just my opinion.

Given enough time, the truth comes out, and people make the more informed decision.

HRH would like nothing more than to get this race over. Yesterday.

HRH's only game at this point is to run out the clock. So she'll call us names, try to pull out shorts down, whatever it takes to distract voters and waste the remaining valuable time.