Indiana is so ridiculously inconsistent. One poll showed Cruz ahead by double digits. Now we have a poll showing Trump leading by double digits. A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll shows the Republican frontrunner up by 15 points. And the sad thing is, we can’t even blame this on Kasich.

Indiana is so ridiculously inconsistent. One poll showed Cruz ahead by double digits. Now we have a poll showing Trump leading by double digits. A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll shows the Republican frontrunner up by 15 points. And the sad thing is, we can’t even blame this on Kasich.

Part of the reason Trump still beats Cruz one-on-one is that Indiana Republicans think that the clumsy attempt at an alliance between Cruz and Kasich was, in short, dumb. Nearly six in 10 disapproved of the ploy, which lasted about four hours.

 

With this new poll, the Real Clear Politics polling average in the state has Trump up about 4 points — but that’s dragged toward Cruz by an outlier that had the senator from Texas up by 16. In seven polls conducted over the past two weeks, that’s the only one to show Cruz winning.

Part of the reason Trump still beats Cruz one-on-one is that Indiana Republicans think that the clumsy attempt at an alliance between Cruz and Kasich was, in short, dumb. Nearly six in 10 disapproved of the ploy, which lasted about four hours.

 

With this new poll, the Real Clear Politics polling average in the state has Trump up about 4 points — but that’s dragged toward Cruz by an outlier that had the senator from Texas up by 16. In seven polls conducted over the past two weeks, that’s the only one to show Cruz winning…. read more here