[research99]

Cruz doesn’t have his facts straight.

There was no grassroots rising in 1980, as polls were tight going into the last week of the election. Polls had even shown Reagan in 3rd place at one point in the early Summer.

It was the results of the October debate and a turn in the electorate away from Carter over the last weekend prior to the election that provided the mandate. Carter made a very sad TV appearance that weekend that essentially solidified the impression that he could not make any substantial progress dealing with Iran regarding releasing the hostages who were seized from the US Embassy in Tehran.

There’s no need to rewrite history, just the proper interpretation based on verifiable information. This should be of concern to anyone watching Ted Cruz that whoever is putting out his PR pieces may not be taking adequate time to make sure their facts are straight.

[SoConPubbie]

There was no grassroots rising in 1980, as polls were tight going into the last week of the election. Polls had even shown Reagan in 3rd place at one point in the early Summer.

And you can prove this how?

That's your opinion using a set of loosely coupled together observations on your part. Then you go about using that weak argument of yours to pretend that Senator Cruz is attempting to re-write history.

Once again, how do you prove this analytically, and not just with the loosely coupled information that you provided?