[Citizen Zed]

Maybe voters do want limited government again?

[ken5050]

I wonder how much Cruz’ position cost him at the polls? 5%??? More???

[fruser1]

Oldie but goodie - “Don’t believe everything you read in the papers.”

Applies to any type of media and most polls.

The same people who say you can’t get through Iowa without supporting ethanol are the same that say you can’t have congress using the power of the purse, or any other anti-establishment idea.

[Yo-Yo]

Sure, if you consider what is essentially a three-way tie a win.

[fruser1]

Nice to think so, but throw social security and medicare into the equation and watch what happens.

[LegendHasIt]

Well, not so much the ‘anti-etahnol’ candidate... That one only lasted for a while. The ‘maybe phase out in five years’ and the ‘Oh, Carson has dropped out and says vote for me’ candidate won.

[nascarnation]

The winner of the Iowa R primary got 51,000 votes.
The winner of the Iowa 2012 POTUS election got 822,000 votes.

So your conclusion might be based on a non-representative sample. But I’m really not sure.

[bigbob]

Eight years ago, Huckabee won. Last night he didn’t get enough votes to continue his campaign. Just remember what an Iowa win means in the bigger context.

[libbylu]

Principles - used to be important to those on the right. Not so much anymore but I am impressed.

[Durbin]

Cruz isn’t anti-ethanol. He’s just anti-government subsidies for ethanol.

[patlin]

More like the ‘kick the can down the road’ candidate. Since when does ‘phasing’ out become anti- anything? Anyone with a keen political sense knows that when a politician says that they are going to ‘phase’ something out, this really means that ‘nothing is going to be done about it’. What is ethanol made from? Corn. What kind of corn? Genetically modified corn. Now go and check Cruz's record, inside and out of political office in regards to the r&d & manufacturers of genetically modified anything. BINGO! Branstad was bluffing!!! Brilliant political move!!!

And so when a propaganda publication suggests that this was a political ‘miracle’ of sorts took place because a guy who says he opposes subsidizing ethanol because it is a farmer's welfare program, well, it isn't the farmers who are being subsidized for being forced to buy chemically laced seed and all the chemicals they must use in it growing process from planting to harvest, it is the ones manufacturing the seed, manufacturing the chemicals the seed requires for its growth and the production after the corn is harvested that are subsidized.

Really? Has America strayed so far from her ‘husbandry’ roots that the everyday lay person can not see the forest because the trees are blocking their view of it?