Now that the primaries are underway, votes and delegates matter more than polls. On the Republican side, one candidate would need to capture 1,237 of 2,472 delegates to the Cleveland convention to clinch the nomination. To help you keep track of who's ahead, the Cook Political Report has devised a delegate scorecard estimating how many delegates each of the five leading GOP contenders would need to win in each state and territory to attain 1,237 delegates by June. For the first time, Donald Trump is now "on pace" to win 1,237 delegates after he claimed all 50 delegates in South Carolina on Saturday, pushing him up to 115 percent of his delegate target. The next closest contender, Marco Rubio, is at only 39 percent of his delegate target. Rubio and others don't have a lot of time to stop Trump: although only four percent of GOP delegates have been allocated so far, 65 percent of GOP delegates will be allocated by the end of March. The biggest loser out of South Carolina is Ted Cruz, who needed 47 delegates from

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