And why he can't.
Posted on 04/12/2015 3:26:28 PM PDT by PingPongChampion
If Ted Cruz plays his hand of cards correctly, he could win both Paul libertarians and Bush Evangelicals. His positions on taxation and abolishing the IRS are already in line with most libertarian ideas, and his positions on abortion and other social issues make him a strong choice for Evangelical voters.
To get an idea of how strong the GOP's Evangelical base is, we can look at the number of Evangelicals who voted in past Republican primaries. In Iowa, 60% of Republican voters identified as Evangelical in 2008 and 2012. In South Carolina, the numbers are the same. Both Iowa and South Carolina are important primary states for any hopeful GOP nominee. The numbers are a bit smaller in Florida (39%), Michigan (39%), Illinois (41%) and Ohio (44%), but if any candidate can scoop up the majority in each state, a win is almost guaranteed.
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Cruz or Lose, GOP!
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Why is that?
Of course he can win.
Unless Rove and The GOPe’s gather about 14 more fake conservatives
to jump in the primary.
Then, like in the past, we will have another loser RINO nominee.
I like “Cruz to Victory” much better.
And why he can't.
“abolishing the IRS”
If that alone doesn’t get every single citizen who works on board I don’t know what will. You get these liberals who want higher taxes, usually the Hollywood creeps, but you know they really don’t want it because they never voluntarily pay more. Even they know in their pea sized brains the whole tax system in this country is one huge mess especially if you are self-employed, it’s a freakin’ nightmare. I personally know a few liberals who have had with the left and taxes, especially this whole amnesty thing where Obummer was demanding $3.5 billion for illegals. Inner city blacks ravaged by drug gangs and Obummers excuse is give $3.5 billion to illegals who are escaping drug gangs LOL!
How do you read that map?
Only the top 20% of taxpayers are really paying significant income tax (80+ percent of it).
Of those about 1/3 are locked in Democrats (because the govt is the source of their income). Think educrats, crony capitalists, high earning union workers, etc.
It’s an issue that gets lots of visibility but won’t be a winning campaign issue.
What the heck is that? Even after looking at it for a while, it makes no sense to me at all.
2012 Republican primary results. Purple = Gingrich, Green = Santorum, Yellow = Ron Paul, Black = no recorded votes.
Orange = Mitt Romney.
Cruz will do well in Gingrich country, possibly Santorum country and he'll be halfway to the delegate count that Romney received.
The million dollar question is how do Romney voters become Cruz voters?
Oops!
Actually, I assumed something I shouldn’t have. That was a Primary map, not a General Election map.
Some of the “Romney states” are that way because their primaries were late and he was the only one left on the ballot.
I voted for Romney because he was running against Obama. So far, Cruz seems to be the better choice for 2016.
One heartache Ted is causing the Left is they can’t support Warren or O’Malley because they have to use their primary vote for Jeb in the R primaries.
They can’t use Hillary for vote-registration drives. Then they have their Reagan Democrats who are going to vote for Cruz, anyway. They’ll be lucky to turn out the black vote at half of what it was in ‘08 and ‘12. Centrist latino dems are also uncomforably (for Hillary) likely to be lured by Cruz’ social plank.
They know more outrages will be un-earthed over the next 20 months. DAPAs in limbo will be reticent to vote, leaving a record for their deportation file.
Shaping up to be an unhappy election season for the RATS, and they will turn on each other.
Romney voters become Cruz voters by Cruz being a much more substantial candidate that Gingrich, Santorum and Paul, and even of Romney himself.
Romney queered up two presidential cycles in a row by being such a financial powerhouse and having a built in labor force, that he kept out any major players, that is most definitely not the situation in 2016.
Cruz isn’t just some third stringer that has been out of politics for years after being defeated in reelection, facing the inevitable 2012 Mitt Romney, this is an entirely different primary, and Cruz is a direct challenger for top spot, not just a hail Mary protest vote.
A good many of us who voted for Romney did so because there was no choice by the time the primary hit our state.
Romney voters could, and the key word is could be replaced by Reagan
Democrats.
And there are still lots of Regan democrats.
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