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Forgive the yawn, Iowa. It’s your turn now, N.H.
Boston Globe ^ | February 02, 2016 | Scot Lehigh

Posted on 02/02/2016 7:44:31 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal

So, what, really, is the message out of Iowa?

Yawn.

(SNIP)

Marco Rubio finished third — and acted as though he’d carried the day. The mysterious “they” who so often act as disdainful naysayers to young idealists everywhere had told him such a showing in Iowa was impossible because he offered too much hope, Rubio said — before racing for the rhetorical refuge of his hysterically overwrought stump speech portraying the 2016 election as a make-or-break moment between national greatness and national decline.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cliffnotes; iowa; rubio; savage

1 posted on 02/02/2016 7:44:31 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

So what, two old, bitter, politically confused white people virtually tied for the Democrat nomination.


2 posted on 02/02/2016 7:55:36 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Obama Rules of Engagement: Hands up Don't Shoot)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Boston Bong!


3 posted on 02/02/2016 7:56:09 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

can’t wait for the SEC
Cruz 2016


4 posted on 02/02/2016 8:04:09 PM PST by Undecided 2012
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To: ObamahatesPACoal
The takeaway's are:

1. Iowa is crucial
2. Iowa is irrelevant
3. Cruz smashed the opposition and he's on his way to triumph
4. Cruz underperformed among evangelicals and Iowa is his last hurrah
5. Trump hung tough and will slaughter his opposition in NH on his way to victory
6. Trump is toast. He wimped out of the debate and lost momentum. He's never experienced losing before and his campaign is going off the rails
7. This proves that Cruz is the GOPe candidate
8. This proves that Trump is the GOPe candidate
9. The GOPe is gathering around Rubio. He will be unstoppable after South Carolina

Basically the takeaway is a Rorschach test. It says more about the person's presuppositions and predispositions than about what will actually happen in the months to come.

5 posted on 02/02/2016 8:13:53 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

The Lesser Cuban’s gorilla-like chest beating is the only mitigation of Cruz’s Cassius Clay-like “I’m the greatest!” late night nonsense.


6 posted on 02/02/2016 8:24:27 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Reads like sour grapes...


7 posted on 02/02/2016 9:06:44 PM PST by Boomer (Liberal Propaganda is like visual/audio Meth. It ruins the mind and rots the teeth.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Post Iowa polls for New Hampshire
8 posted on 02/05/2016 4:37:16 AM PST by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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