Posted on 12/01/2015 2:03:12 PM PST by Isara
“On Saturday alone, Cruz hit seven cities and towns over a 12-hour period, ending the day at 11 p.m. saying a prayer with a local pastor in the parking lot of a Casey’s General Store. The next morning, while his GOP rivals were making the rounds on Sunday shows or continuing their holiday breaks from the campaign trail, Cruz was working the pews at Christian Life Assembly of God, a church in Des Moines.”
Ted Cruz understands small flyover towns in a way that few do.
In other words after a jammed Saturday while the other candidates were making the rounds of the Sunday New York and Washington Liberal circle jer ... err, I mean news discussion shows, Cruz stayed in Iowa and went to church.
Notice that Cruz is hitting “7” cities= which actually translates to, small venues where occasionally someone asks, “but are you actually a natural born citizen?”
No big rallies here with 10,000+ people, while Trump is having them constantly.
This is not someone “seizing the moment in Iowa.” Cruz’s campaigning is insignificant.
What Cruz is actually hoping on is that his surrogates in Iowa— the people who control radio or TV— convince the low-info Iowa voters to switch from Ben Carson to Cruz, but Trump has sucked up all the energy in the room.
I’m sure this is going to get me in trouble with the Cruz support base here, but these articles seem to constantly feature leading headlines that try to paint a narrative that when put up against polls and surveys, dont seem to match.
“Cruz is soaring”
“Cruz seizes the moment”
“Cruz is catching fire”
“Cruz ascending”
And then you look and find...he’s behind Carson (whom think may be still in the middle east looking for that grain pyramid), and sometimes tied or behind Rubio. Nevermind being 20-30 behind Trump.
So someone is spinning a really misleading picture.
Yep. The question is whether this was intentional or coincidental. We'll see in the next 4-6 weeks (I think). I'd like to think what's distracted the media is Shinola.
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candidate, we have a chance at restoring the republic."
Ted Cruz knows what he’s doing. This ain’t his rodeo.
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Actually, Trump pretty much has a hold on most low information voters.
They tend not to know, for example that he supports socialized medicine, thinks leftists make good potential supreme court justice nominees, abuse eminent domain, contribute to Hillary and other leftwing Democrats....stuff like that.
They just know he's a reality TV star who talks tough. They don't really care about nuance like: "Is this guy actually a conservative?" "Does he know which Amendment is Number 10 and what it says?"
Hank
They don't know a lot of those things because a lot of it is blatantly false or an extravagant misrepresentation coming from folks controlled by their donors.
"I'm a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one. We should not hear so many stories of families ruined by health care expenses. We must not allow citizens with medical problems to go untreated because of financial problems or red tape....."
- Donald Trump in his 2000 book: "The America We Deserve"
"The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than America. We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing....While we work out details of a new single-payer plan, there are a number of ways to make the health care system now in place work more efficiently"
- Donald Trump in his 2000 book: "The America We Deserve"
I know, I know. He didn't really say all that. Or he didn't mean it. Or it was somebody else's fault that he said it.
And anyway, Cruz's wife works for a big bank! That overrides everything!
Or something.
Hank
That's your strawman. My actual retort would be: "Look at Trump's solution to healthcare: repeal Obamacare and replace with a free market solution."
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The labor unions are busing thousands in for Trump’s rallies.
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Trump’s “solution” to healthcare is a single payer system like Canada or Scotland.
He has said that numerous times.
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>> “So someone is spinning a really misleading picture.” <<
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Yep, VanDeKoik is the chief culpret.
Democrats support NAFTA, TPP and every other "free trade" abomination, even after they campaign against them. Union support for Trump is probably very high.
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