MILWAUKEE (WKZO-AM) — Both Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders out-performed the polls in Wisconsin with both beating their front-running rivals by margins ranging between 14 percent and 15 percent.
But there is a big difference in the way the two parties split up the delegates, and that’s the bottom line.
Western Michigan University Political Science Professor John Clark said Wisconsin Republicans give a pile of delegates to the overall winner, and additional delegates for each congressional district won.
By that formula, Cruz will get 33 delegates and Donald Trump will get just three in Wisconsin.
Democrats have a different formula that does not favor Sanders. They hand out delegates on a proportional basis using the statewide vote.
Sanders will leave Wisconsin with 45 delegates, Hillary Clinton will get 33.
Clark says that rule, which is standard in most states, makes it tougher for Sanders to make up the difference in the delegate count with the number of primaries left.
