That is my concern. If Cruz can sustain that level of a ground game, he would be light years away from what the DemonRATs do. My concern is this: can he duplicate that level of organization from now to November? I am sure he used quite an impressive ground game when he ran for the U.S. Senate. That experience helped him in Iowa but, for all of his effort, he will get little to show for it. With Iowa’s proportional delegate system, Cruz will get a slight advantage over Trump in the next step: How the delegates are selected for Iowa’s 99 county conventions.
If you run these numbers “in reverse” for the general (election), assuming that the Dem candidate will get 66 million votes, then we are looking at something like 16.3 MILLION Cruz team members, and God knows how much money, to give Cruz a comfortable(?) victory with 70 million votes. (I’m assuming turnout will be high.)
Holy crap...
But, the candidate has to get there, first, and most states will be tougher for Cruz than Iowa was.
I wonder if anyone knows how many total Republican primary votes Romney got in 2012?