Posted on 01/27/2016 4:44:42 AM PST by justlittleoleme
There are 1,682 voting precincts in Iowa, and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) claims he has 1,573 of them covered for Monday night's first-in-the-nation Iowa Republican Caucus.
"In my experience the Cruz organizational effort here in Iowa is unrivaled," Cruz's Iowa state director Bryan English said. "We have coalesced conservatives from across the state because they want a conservative leader who will change Washington, break the D.C. cartel and bring power back to 'We the People.'"
According to the Cruz camp, they have named a county chair for each of Iowa's 99 counties, and recruited 247 "notable activists, pastors and lawmakers." These include U.S. Rep. Steve King, The Family Leader president Bob Vander Plaats, nationally syndicated talk radio host Steve Deace and former Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz.
"As of last week, over 12,000 volunteers have signed on and are now working to identify and turn out caucus goers for Cruz," the campaign said Tuesday in a press release. "Volunteers, on average, are making up to 20,000 phone calls and knocking on 2,000 doors every day. During the month of January, 836 people will have stayed at Camp Cruz, the former college dorms that are filled beyond capacity with volunteers from all over the country, some tripling up in rooms using air mattresses."
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Excellent. With Trump showing his cowardice, this is really encouraging news.
Do you think this means Trump has conceded Iowa, the State that rarely chooses the eventual nominee, to Cruz?
Here is what Ted Cruz is up against. Analysis from Dilbert’s creator, Scott Adams:
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/138125409321/trump-fox-news-and-megyn-kelly-explained-master
Cruz may have a superior ground game (maybe) but which wins:
Superior ground forces OR adequate ground forces PLUS air superiority?
This may matter to the all of the many Cruzer fanboys at this site but the rest of us aren’t voting for the president of Ioway. Trump 2016.
I don’t know. What do you think?
Thanks and good luck with your favorite candidate as well!
GO TED CRUZ! VOTE TED CRUZ!
I suspect this is the reason Trump chickened out of the debate tomorrow. Trump realized that the Cruz ground game would give Cruz the win, and Trump needed an excuse for losing. The excuse? “I wasn’t in the debate”.
Oh yeah? So what. How does that translate to the other fourty-nine states? They’re only good in Iowa’s cornfields.
And as samtheman asks, where’s the “airpower”?
So far Cruz has been playing a very strategic game. I don’t know what comes next in Cruz’s game of chess, but I am certain he has put alot of thought behind it.
GO TED CRUZ!! VOTE TED CRUZ!!
What Cruz — and the rest of the candidates — need to do tomorrow is move the focus off Trump and have a serious give-and-take on serious policy matters. If any opportunity to plant their marker is to come, it’s now.
Issues, not Trump.
I suspect this is the reason Trump chickened out of the debate tomorrow. Trump realized that the Cruz ground game would give Cruz the win, and Trump needed an excuse for losing.
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Your assessment that Trump may be losing is certainly a possiblitiy. I never thought Trump
would have a chance and Iowa should have been Cruz’s in a cakewalk. You can call it chickened
out or it could be call a move on the chess board. In either case it has got a lot of publicity
and now with his wounded warrior/vet idea has brought another dynamic to the game.
At least this is proving to be a somewhat interesting primary so far.
I still think that Trump’s military personnel vote by VTC campaign is going to put Trump over the edge. Military personnel for the first time in history will be able to participate in the caucus from all over the World. That is exciting and way overdue. God Bless America. God Bless Donald Trump. God Bless Sarah Palin. God Bless all the military personnel around the World.
It would be hilarious if Trumps press conference gets more ratings and viewers then the now boring GOP debate. It will be Cruz vs Rubio and Rubio will win but it will still be boring.
It’ll still be more substantive than if Trump is there. But yes... substantive can be boring.
I agree with you. Trump brings a “man of the people” vibe to the debates. That will be missing. Oh well best of luck to the rest of the candidates. I do think Cruz better get ready because he will be center stage and will be getting all the bullets that Trump normally protects him from.
VTC campaigns at overseas troop gatherings are a great idea. What I’d like to see is military personnel (though not the electorate at large) have access to online voting. That’d be far more effective than the current mail-in absentee ballot system.
Any costs required to revolutionize and streamline the voting process for the military in this manner are dollars well spent.
In my humble opinion, I don't believe this is correct. I think it's a very close race right now and Mr Trump felt Fox was planning a "hit" piece using Kelly, the Muslim woman, illegal Mexican woman and the tech guy. I believe he feels it will "hurt" his poll numbers so he decided not to show up
MY problem with that is.....you had better be able to handle and navigate "hit pieces" from the US and ALL OVER THE WORLD when you are President. There's no strength in saying, "hey, I'm not going to show up to a world summit because they aren't going to treat me fair." This stunt gives the nuance that Trump can be "run off" by conflict, which is NOT a good "tag" to have hanging on you as a candidate after years of Obama doing very little to protect America.
This is a good summation of the Cruz campaign. Trump has a fairly good organization but many of his supporters are first time caucus goers.
Simply put, if Cruz wins Iowa he has a shot at upsetting the tables. If Trump loses he will still be the front runner. We have a race here folks.
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