Posted on 03/17/2015 12:44:35 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The support of the Evangelical community is hardly decisive, even in a Republican presidential primary. Otherwise, Pat Robertson and Mike "Diabetes Cure" Huckabee might be president. Nevertheless, it's a solid voting bloc, and if there is no clear Republican frontrunner, they can be influential, especially in places like Iowa, which hosts the first caucuses in the nation. A significant organizer in this election cycle is Evangelical leader David Lane.
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Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal seem to be tight with him.
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Rand Paul even credits Mr. Lane with helping him find God.
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There was no substantive mention of Scott Walker, one of my favorite candidates. But the Lord works in mysterious ways, and if I find any measure of Evangelical support for him, I will write a follow-up article.....
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What I still don’t understand is why is a state like Iowa, which doesn’t even reliably go Republican, get first dibs in this stupid nomination process, and not a state like, say, Texas, which is not only a lot bigger (everything is bigger) and more valuable from an electoral standpoint, but has a reliable conservative/republican base which might have an opinion worth considering for who should be the Republican nominee?
It’s set up to show the candidates’ “ground game” their ability to connect, organize and raise campaign cash (the nominee will be getting plenty of “testing” by the Democrat/MSM all down the line).
I agree with you but Iowa at present is pretty good with its congress members.
There’s no good Senators north of Arkansas (Cotton’s good) except Chuck Grassley. Ayotte, Toomey, Burr, Rand, Mitch... are all RINOs.
Steve King, Rod Blum and Chuck Grassley are better than most in congress. 2 out of the 3 GOP Congressmen from Iowa voted against Boehner. Steve King is the opposite to the GOPE on amnesty and Blum is the opposite to the GOPE on funding ISIS.
Texas only has Cruz and Gohmert out of I think 26 GOP congress members. Most others are RINOs and definitely not as conservative as King or Blum on key issues.
Id rather the GOP be convinced they need to pander to corn farmers than some other demographic.
Iowa doesn’t pick in delegates committed to candidates at its caucuses. It is just a meaningless straw vote. News media coverage took off in the ‘70s as a way to humiliate candidates by having them trudge around in bad weather. Same with New Hampshire.
GOP lead-off primaries should go to states with highest percent of GOP votes in last presidential election.
Therein lies the rub. I trust the demographics of Texas more than I do the demographics of Iowa. You might have good men right now, but your state went to Obama. And didn't they hand things off last time to Santorum, with Romney a close second? Neither of those two losers would have gotten that kind of a result in Texas.
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