Posted on 02/02/2016 7:47:48 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
By targeting evangelicals and libertarians from the very start, he dominated from the two most reliable Iowa voting blocs...
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Oops, you are right.
3 tickets out of Iowa. Actually the results are not that surprising. Cruz had the ground game and 60% of the voting population were evangelicals and he was the clear choice vs. Huck or Rick.
Trump, 2nd is about right and only 3% off the leader. Rubio is gaining momentum and is a factor as the “pleasant†antidote to Trump or Cruz.
What’s surprising to me is the LOUD anti-establishment message from Iowa with these 3 (Rubio and Cruz are too young to be swallowed up in D.C. and thought of as establishment) and Jeb, Christie, Kasich (the real establishment) going nowhere. Also, the fact that a socialist can tie Hillary also supports the anti-establishment sentiment on both sides.
Up next, New Hampshire - not much can change unless Sanders doesn’t win big, then it’s all over for him. On the GOP side, can Rubio move closer to Cruz and does Trump still win. Lastly, is there room for 1 more GOP candidate? Only if one other has a huge finish which is unlikely.
He moved to Iowa.
Pandered to Evangelicals
Spent millions on phone banks and volunteers
Walked away with more more delegate than the guys that spent a fraction of the time and money.....
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Actually he did Cruz win 8 both Trump and Rubio won 7 each.
Not as well as it worked out for Bush, Obama and Reagan.
It’s a horse race and Cruz broke from the gate one jump ahead of Trump and Rubio. They haven’t even reached the first turn yet, but Carson bettors are worried already.
We are in it to win it, and we will run right over ANY opposition.
We are winning, but we have not won.
Until this thing is over, it’s battle stations!
I actually meant to say “One more”. :^|
It’s Cruz who has alienated Carson and his supporters with the little trick last night. Cruz would have won anyway but rest assured when Carson drops out he will endorse either Trump or Rubio.
Cruz blew up the Carson bridge to win Iowa.
Rubio is less of a citizen than Cruz. Both ineligible. If we had a media (including the capons in talk radio), both of these guys would have been laughed off the stage.
In Iowa teenagers still work at McDonalds and the floor at Walmart isn’t covered in urine. That’s how Cruz won Iowa.
Hillary would destroy Cruz, it would be a Goldwater,Johnson election.
#groundgamematters
If it comes down to Cruz or Rubio, ask these questions. which would be better to support the constitution, which will be least beholden to the establishment & big money, which is more likely to appoint strong constitutional judges? The answer is clear CRUZ!
YES no doubt Hillary WILL destroy Cruz, also Rubio!!! I will NEVER vote for Rubio I am a ONE issue voter this time around and that is our BOARDER!!!
We’ve bee saying it all along. We were scorned, mocked, and laughed at...but anybody who has studied Cruz’s ground game in the past knows that Ted Cruz routinely outperforms the polls!
Trump is blowing up all the bridges. Seems to me Carson would be out of his mind to go with Trump after all the nastiness thrown his way.
ROTFL pathetic
With all this, we'll have become a banana republic.
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