[struggle]

He spent 500K. He got 3rd in a state where he could get 2-6th place. Phenomenal.

[Helicondelta]

Pundits?

[BlueStateRightist]

Cruz spent $500K and placed ahead of the GOP-e guy who spent 66 times that. In both primaries to date he has achieved his goal.

[stocksthatgoup]

Trump rally at The Littlejohn Coliseum, is a 10,325-seat multi-purpose arena in Clemson, South Carolina, United States.
vs Cruz group of 200 today.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Cruz Cruz bo-bruz
Banana fanna fo-fruz
Fee, fy, mo-mruz.
Cruz!
http://youtu.be/5MJLi5_dyn0

[heights]

Yeah, Trump only beat him by 62,000 votes.

[jmacusa]

So now losing is actually winning. Ah, the age we live in.

[20yearsofinternet]

Good for “pundits”, I guess? They’re the ones hoping we get another business-as-usual career politician, so it makes sense for them all to bash Trump for coming in GASP second in Iowa but then try to spin ties for fifth as an epic win.

*shrug*

On to South Carolina!

[CA Conservative]

Has anyone else noticed how few stories there are about Trump's win, and how many there are about Cruz getting 3rd? Like I keep saying, it is about expectations. Everyone expected Trump to win NH, so it is not a big story; everyone expected Cruz to do poorly, so a 3rd place finish is considered newsworthy.

Question: with all of the attention on Cruz today, what is the over/under on when Trump says or does something outlandish to get the attention back on himself?

[Company Man]

Funny how a second place finish for Trump in Iowa (by 3.3 per cent) was a death knell, but losing by 24 per cent in NH puts Cruz ‘comfortably in third place’.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Hillary lost in NH, she came out ahead too.

[DaveyB]

It was just the second round of a long fight. Cruz lost the round, but he is well positioned to continue to fight. The early rounds are wars of attrition, and the weaker candidates are dropping like flies. Cruz is trailing in delegates, but has the best shot to overtake the current leader.

[stocksthatgoup]

The Littlejohn Coliseum, is a 10,325-seat multi-purpose arena in Clemson, South Carolina, United States.

[BobL]

Can’t blame a candidate for trying to spin a RESOUNDING DEFEAT by, of all people, John Kasich, but it doesn’t change what happened there.

[Enlightened1]

Oh yeah so coming in first by dirty tricks and cheating in Iowa translates to 3rd place in Iowa which translates to 1 in South Carolina?

What are they using Common Core math?

[DannyTN]

The pundits...LOL. If the pundits had to pay a $1 for every time they were wrong, they’d rival the national debt by now.

[usafa92]

66,000. Ted lost to Trump by 66,000 votes in NH. That shows me that Ted lost bad.

140,000 to 83,000. That tells me Trump has 57,000 more votes than Ted so far.

36-20. That’s Trump’s lead in SC before the NH results. That tells me Cruz is a decided underdog.

Trump up 21 in MI over Rubio before Rubio’s implosion. Trump will break 50 there.

Trump up 14 in Nevada before NH.

When Ted breaks 20 in a poll ping me. Until then the little SEC fantasy math is not going to work because Trump is more popular there than Ted as it is and Trump will be on a big winning streak by then.

Tell me again how Ted can beat Trump??

[sergeantdave]

Both Cruz and Trump are doing well. If they can finish 1-2 at the end of the primary season, GOPe heads will be exploding across America. That’s a good thing.

[TXSearcher]

Cruz finished pretty much where I expected him to in NH......though I was VERY surprised that Bush did as well as he did.

[LS]

Carolina Panthers may have lost the Super Bowl, but pundits say they came out ahead.

Silly beyond comprehension.