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The reality of the GOP primary is that it has narrowed but not decisively.

Remember the "Ten Little Indians". A childhood game played with toes or fingers. And an Agatha Christie mystery in which there are ten suspects.

It had to happen. Ten candidates on any side give me a headache. And everyone else.

The key question at the moment is "who is getting the more attention"?. At the moment, that would be Trump and Cruz.

I watch the dailies on CNBC, poll dailies.

Trump and Cruz are not jockeying. Cruz' rise is at the expense of the other non-Trumps.

Up to now the GOoPers have kept it impersonal. Now, not so much.

Donald Trump Gets Personal in Attacks on Ted Cruz at Tea Party Convention

Get out the popcorn.

They are still pretending that there are a lot of choice but as time goes on the light has gone off the others. Once they started the minor league debates, it was time to admit that the minors were also the losers.

I am surprised by Trump. I do like to watch him. He is a vivid performer. It is hard to see how much is real and how much is not. Like the hair. OK. I didn't want to go there. But God. How do you not go there with the hair.

Cruz is hard to listen to. It is his cadence. His voice. I would swear that he has a high voice but he really does not. It is midrange. It is how he pushes it.

I realize this is ad hominem but that is more than fair game in a Presidential election. After all, the "hominem" is trying to be the leader of the "free world". Which is actually an outdated term. But you know what I mean.

Ted Cruz has a kind of whining cadence. A shrewish sound. Trump is specific. He makes faces. He is endlessly entertaining. He also lets us know he is in on the joke.

I do not like either one of them. But it is finally getting entertaining, the Primary.

Labels: Donald Trump, Republican primary, Ted Cruz