Posted on 02/05/2016 5:21:09 PM PST by JSDude1
On Monday night, the Republican Party gave the first victory of 2016 to the first Hispanic candidate for president of the United States, Ted Cruz.
Sen. Cruz won for many reasons: his outsider appeal, disciplined message, and sophisticated get-out-the-vote operation. But after two trips to Iowa to volunteer for Cruz, I noticed something else about the Cruz campaign that probably made a difference.
Iâve worked on many campaigns. I started with George W. Bushâs 2004 campaign when I was 14, and Iâve volunteered at the grassroots level every year since. A wise mentor once told me the kind of organization a leader builds says a lot about him.
There was something different about the Cruz campaign, including many signs of kindness and courage:
â¢Cruzâs Urbandale headquarters were like many campaign headquarters â office space in a suburban strip mall. Streams of volunteers came in to sit in rows of phone bank tables, and went out with literature to canvass neighborhoods door-to-door. Staff bustled in and out of small offices. But people were relatively calm and quiet. There was orderliness.
â¢Unlike every other campaign I had worked on, the Cruz operation encouraged volunteers to engage. Plainly typed signs all around the phone bank said, please flag someone down if someone has you stumped with a Cruz question â we want to earn as many supporters as possible! This communicated not only a commitment to discipline, but also to rational persuasion and fearless confidence that our cause is what the voters are looking for.
â¢One of the offices had been cleared of desks and chairs and instead contained colorful foam mats, toy blocks, and coloring books. I saw four or five kids putting together puzzles or coloring quietly while a mother made calls from a folding chair. Someone told me
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and lying to the cauci goers. Really sad.
“On Monday night, the Republican Party gave the first victory of 2016 to the first Hispanic candidate for president of the United States, Ted Cruz.”
Somehow I feel a ‘but’ coming on.
Here they come in 3 .... 2 .... 1
I wonder what the cross town crew at Trump and Rubio was like, I would love to compare. It really is a business principle that a corporation will become like its leader.
Great article, worth a full read.
Cruz’s now suspect Iowa win was tainted with voter fraud.
Many have now acknowledged that.
Mrs. Clinton’s fraud appears to be worse, but not much.
Iowa managed to host a suspect election.
Quit playa hatin'!
Tedious.
No, if so point out the fraud...
Only it was a mistake not intentional.
Why don’t you get a list of voters that will sign an official document that they switched their vote from Carson because of someone passing along a news report from CNN. Then you can make a case that those votes be switched from the other campaigns.
Don’t need to. Cruz admitted it and apologized.
Did you not realize that Cruz is eligible to be elected, that he is not a Canadian?
When did you come to this understanding, from which ruling over the many done in the last few weeks?
Do you not realize that after it has been cleared up, to continue to bring it up is simply slander and a lie?
Did Trump accuse Cruz of illegal status daily for weeks or did one of his staff?
Did Cruz say what Trump claimed he said, or did one of his staff make the statement?
Who repeats the lies after having been shown it was a lie?
Who apologies and states that they were wrong?
Who is really lying?
And are you willing to be a party to it?
Is Trump clueless, or duplicitous?
Cruz admitted to and apologized for fraud? Please direct me to a link.
Article provides excellent insight into the inner-workings of the Cruz campaign.
You can clearly see this is a winning formula to win both the nomination and the general.
Cruz is playing the long game.
Yeah, be kind to illegals, islamos, Dindus and gibsmedats and the votes will roll in. Meanwhile we with white privy retain the right to support all these freeloaders with our tax dollars.
One of these days ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQvG2SMVl84&index=27&list=RDKiEd3D8uGR8
State your argument or not at all, I don’t click on bs articles.
He acknowledged shenanigans by his workers and apologized to Carson. It’s been all over the news.
The governor of Iowa said:
“Branstad similarly called out the Cruz campaign for its “questionable” tactics. In an interview with Radio Iowa on Thursday, Branstad said that the Carson note was “unethical and unfair.”
“This thing that they distributed on caucus night, saying that Dr. Carson was likely to drop out and his supporters should support Cruz, that is, I think, unethical and unfair,” Branstad said. “I think there’ll be repercussions to that.”
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