Posted on 12/27/2015 4:05:50 PM PST by VinL
That was before Trump entered the race. Once Trump, with his already huge social media presence, got in there was no way a first term senator without that name recogition could possibly compete. Cruz is wisely sticking to retail politics, something he has a lot more experience with than Trump.
It will be interesting to see if Trump has been quietly laying the groundwork to win the caucus and surprises everyone. His ability to bring out new voters, supposedly his secret weapon to pull of a win in Iowa, will face its first real test.
I'll be as shocked as anyone if Trump can beat Cruz there. I suspect Trump's brash New York City personality will turn a lot of people off, but that's just a guess.
Trump has good people around him also, people who have won in Iowa. I think the timing is actually pretty good with Cruz ahead, as it my vitalize the Trump people not to be complacent.
I’m going to do something today, that I’ve never done in my life. I’m going to contact the local Trump campaign and volunteer. I suspect it’s in Atlanta and not down south to TRoup County yet.
Bookmarking for February.
Cruz “has probably put together one of the most sophisticated, if not the most sophisticated, organizational efforts this state has ever seen,” said Dave Nagle, a three term Democratic member of Congress and now a lawyer in Waterloo.
Democratic member of Congress? Say what???????
I fully expect some bad things happening in this country and the world that will set Trump apart from the pack.
Cruz is a good man, but not strong enough. I won’t vote for him in a primary. I won’t even turn on the tube to listen to him at this point.
He’s an apprentice.
“...He bought copies of the book written by Obama’s campaign manager, passed them out to his staff, and said they were going to use everything that worked and throw away what didn’t...”
Since 0bama was elected *twice*, it would probably not be unwise to give it a look-see.
Agreed. Obama can be (should be) despised, but it's a fact that he ran a hugely successful campaign.
Hard to hold a rally in a stadium with 200 people. The cameras would show that for sure.
Iowa I hear is more like an evangelical primary. Nice to get, but the Republicans went on to win only once or twice from there since the eighties.
You mean going with the RINO instead of the Iowa choice resulted in the GOP getting humiliated by no-name Dems.
No, I mean winning Iowa is more a winning factor to Democrats than Republicans. Lots of Democrats who won there went on to win recently, not Republibans.
Except for the last *successful* GOP candidate, who began his campaign by winning Iowa.
Yes that one since the what, 80s?
The GOP should start with a solid GOP state that has a closed GOP primary, like Oklahoma. That should be a winning recipe. Lessee, who did they pick in 2008 and 2012?
They should close all states to registered party voters in the primary to avoid people voting to disrupt rather than pick the best Republican candidate.
How many delegates does that get him?
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