[Lumper20]

Cruz is not doing well as he is way back in the pack.

[Reagan Disciple]

You don't raise $50+MM in a few months and be considered an also-ran.

You can see how biased the polls are at any one point in time to any one candidate.

Hugh Hewitt has it right I think.......Cruz takes Iowa, doesn't do well in NH, holds his own in SC and then takes Texas into Super Tuesday as the leader.

Trump is setting the stage for Cruz and Cruz is responding in a most Reaganesque way.

[SmokingJoe]

Yeah? When are the elections starting? Tomorrow or in 6 months time?
Cruz is actually doing better than he was a this stage in his campaign for the US Senate. If I am not mistaken, he was polling at just 3% early in his run for the US Senate. And he was running against a big ass GOPe guy who was raising like 10 times as much money was Cruz was at the time. He still ended up beating the guy.
What you need to look at is how much money Cruz is raising right now, how many people have contributed to his campaign and how much grassroots support he has and how committed/energized they are. Cruz is kicking butt in all these categories. He already has enough money to run for the entire length of the primaries, and he still has 6 months more to raise money. Plus he doesn't need to raise as much money as Jeb Bush who has zero grass roots support.