I'm not sold on others would have been slaughtering her, when they couldn't beat the person running against her now. If they could do that to her, they should have handily beaten Trump.

I don't see any reason to think that he should be up by double digits. Most had Hillary winning this election from the get go, and especially against Trump. So most are actually surprised that he made it that far, that he got the nomination, and more so that he is pulling up along side her in the polls. Personally, I think she should be in jail, or disqualified, but out side of that, I really don't see any reason to believe that any of the candidates would/should/could have been up by double digits at this stage of the election. That's my take anyway.

I don't slam anyone. I just try to face the facts of this election, and third parties, and folks staying home this year. That's just looking at the reality of the potential numbers. There is no doubt at all in my mind, that if those supporting a 3rd party made a concerted effort to support Trump, to preserve the SC for example... and if those planning on staying home, made a concerted effort to support Trump, to preserve the SC and the 2nd... then it makes sense to also say that voting 3rd or staying home indirectly takes votes away. It doesn't make those folks bad, wrong, to blame or anything like that - I'm just pointing out the facts of how it effects the election.

And that's why I mention the preservation of the supreme court, which we know Hillary would for sure place a lefty in there, or 2, or scary to think even a 3rd. Herself and Chelsea both spoke during the campaign of either changing things with the 2nd, or whatever it is they have to do in order to regulate guns, or strip some rights away. NO ONE is to blame should that happen, so that's not what I'm saying. But it is possible that the numbers can be there to beat her, but yet she doesn't get beaten. It's possible that those "indirect" votes that refuse to vote for him might have been able to put him over the top and potentially prevent those things from happening.

Cruz, no doubt in my mind that he harmed himself, and perhaps irreparable damage. And if so, and from his decision at the convention, then karma is a bitch on him.