Posted on 02/05/2016 5:18:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Gee, I thought we shouldn't vote for Ted Cruz in the Republican primary because he's an icky conservative who can't appeal to young and blue collar voters. If that's the case, why did he do better than Donald Trump and Marco Rubio with both groups?
According to entrance polling, among the roughly half of all Republican voters without a college degree, Cruz won 30 percent of the vote, eclipsing Trump's 28 percent. Marco Rubio was a distant third, winning the support of just 17 percent of voters without college degrees. Cruz did 5 points better among voters without college degrees than among college grads (30 percent to 25 percent), while, among all candidates included in the entrance polling (Cruz, Trump, Rubio, Ben Carson, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders), Rubio was the candidate who had the lowest portion of his support come from those without college degrees--he did 10 points worse among voters without college degrees than among college grads (17 to 27 percent).
According to the entrance polling, Cruz also fared better than Trump or Rubio among younger voters. Among voters under the age of 30, Cruz won 26 percent of the vote to Rubio's 23 percent and Trump's 20 percent. Among voters in their 30s and early 40s, Cruz won 30 percent of the vote to Trump's 23 percent and Rubio's 21 percent. (Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton got clobbered among younger voters, winning less than 30 percent of the vote among those under the age of 45.)
Cruz's strong numbers among blue-collar voters lend credence to his expressed determination, emphasized in his victory speech, to win Reagan Democrats back into the Republican fold.(Read More)
Young Iowa Fundamentalist, not representative of the National population.
Are you ready for Tuesday and South Carolina? You will need a sedative.
Evangelicals voted for Cruz regardless.
30% vs 28% exit poll is eclipsing?
Oh, please, voter fraud is the key to his 1 delegate win. Where’s my barf bag? Cruz has no cross over appeal to Democrats.
There’s not much anyone can say about Iowa at all now, given that it is a suspect election tainted by potential fraud.
Boooo-hoooo
Many are acknowledging it was a tainted election.
Not even a win, really. And it made Cruz’s numbers go down.
Hahaha! You’d better look at some more polls.
Horse manure, Evangelicals come in many flavors from Pro Homosexual leftists with female pastors to staunch right wingers with strict Biblical leanings. To make such a blanket statement is like saying Jews always vote xyz, never realizing that you are a racist and most likely don’t even know any Jews.
You certainly don’t know evangelicals. But that is ok, they don’t either.
The fact that Cruz has no cross over vote appeal to democrats is a plus in my book. I am tired of the bullshirt from America Haters.
Lower middle class evangelicals voted for Cruz. Every other income demographic like that will vote for Trump.
Dirty tricks are no substitute for Cruz
previously helping to get SECRET ObamaTRADE to a vote
for his wife’s employer and his previously SECRET loans.
I would suggest that you sort Evangelicals by doctrine, not income. Apples and Oranges sorting, how much money is in your wallet has nothing to do with your spiritual faith.
There is a reason why he is lonely.
He can’t win without crossover votes.
Cruz, as much as he is the bees knees, is doing nothing to address his eligibility problem.
If he is eligible being born in Canada, then Obama is eligible being born in Kenya.
Chew on that for a while and enjoy this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCxCg6Y5w6Q
That bull sure worked against him in Iowa.
Young Iowa Fundamentalist, not representative of the National population.
Not all of them were Fundamentalist!!! What is Trump going to do in the Bible Belt just about the whole South??? 65% or 70% Christian voters!!!
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