I have missed a lot of today’s news and maybe this has been beat over, but I am surprised that I have seen no discussion of how the vote would have gone had Cruz not started the rumor that Carson was quitting.
Carson must have lost some voters as a result of the lie. If those voters had stayed with Carson, then not only would Cruz have not won, but Trump would have a bigger spread over Rubio.
Of course it is pure conjecture as to who switched and who would not have, but sober thinking on the subject should bring one to the conclusion that the lie about Carson makes the results in Iowa confusing and probably no guide as to the future.
In other words, when you have an unknown, it is probable that the value of the unknown is also unknown.
-——had Cruz not started the rumor that Carson was quitting.-——
Cruz didn’t start that rumor, CNN reported Carson was going back to Florida and implied he was quitting...
Cruz team just re-reported it....heavy on the quitting part....
Politics is a blood sport....Cruz did apologize to Carson for jumping the gun on a bad piece of reporting...
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