Eric Ostermeier provides analysis on the history of candidates' polling numbers shortly after their main challengers drop out.
"While Romney avoided the embarrassment of winning with a mere plurality, never has a presumptive nominee won a primary contest with such a low level of support at this stage of the race with his chief challenger no longer actively campaigning," Ostermeier says.
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