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Top Super Tuesday takeaways: Clinton and Trump near the promised land

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump entered Super Tuesday and its dozen contests as their parties’ front-runners. Now that the dust has settled, has that changed?

Not at all.

Voting in 13 states plus one territory kicked off this morning, and by this evening it’s possible that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and businessman Donald Trump will have effectively seized control of the nomination for their parties’ nominations. Several media outlets offered their take on what viewers should be looking for this evening as results come in, starting with ABC News:

6 Super Storylines for Super Tuesday

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Five Republican candidates will be competing in 11 states on Super Tuesday. And don’t forget the GOP’s byzantine delegate allocation rules. But don’t fret; this guide will help you sort it all out.

Insiders: Trump, Clinton to run riot on Super Tuesday

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are already beating their rivals. On Super Tuesday, insiders predict, they’ll all but bury them.

Members of The POLITICO Caucus — a panel of strategists, party leaders, activists and elected officials in four key March-voting states — expect both Clinton and Trump to romp through the majority of Tuesday’s primaries and caucuses. And a number even suggested that running the table on Super Tuesday, or something close to it, could make both front-runners nearly impossible to catch in the race for their parties’ nomination.

Ted Cruz’s Judgment Day

It was July, only four months into the campaign, and Ted Cruz’s Iowa chairman was nervous.

Scott Walker and Mike Huckabee were practically living in Iowa, but Cruz was all over the map: On a book tour in Georgia, visiting Oklahoma, rolling out a leadership team in Tennessee. Matt Schultz got on a plane and flew to Houston, planning to tell Cruz’s senior staff that their candidate risked becoming an afterthought in the most important state for a conservative, evangelical Republican.

Poll: Trump and Cruz’s favorability ratings sink

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz’s images among U.S. Republicans and Republican-leaning independents have worsened as the campaign for president has gotten increasingly nasty.

According to new data released by Gallup, the Texas senator’s net favorability rating is +14, the lowest for him and one of the lowest scores in the Republican cycle. Cruz’s all-time high was in January with +48.