The 37 percent solution

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Thirty-seven percent of voters in the Republican nominating contests thus far voted for Donald Trump, which means that 62-63 percent voted against him.

Just how unimpressive is a 37 percent tally? In 1992, after George H.W. Bush lost the presidency in a three-way race with Ross Perot and Bill Clinton (which Clinton won with 43 percent in an electoral landslide), it was seen as a calamitous loss and a huge comedown from the 54 percent he had won against Michael Dukakis four years earlier.

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