Delegate Math: Haley Campaign Days Are Numbered

Regardless how many delegates, if any, Nikki Haley earns in Feb. 24’s South Carolina Republican primary, the former United Nations ambassador’s presidential campaign’s days are numbered. As in 30 days or less, calculate a raft of delegate-counting analysts, such as FHQ Strategies founder and University of Georgia Political Science Professor Josh Putnam. That is, unless Ms. Haley can outright win some contests, including several of the 15 ‘Super Tuesday’ GOP presidential preference preliminaries on March 5. If she does not do so, Mr. Putnam said, her campaign will crash into a cold, hard iceberg of “delegate math,” making ‘Super Tuesday’ her “Titanic Tuesday.”...