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Iowa Voters on Cruz: He's Conservative Enough, But Is He Electable?
NBC News ^ | Nov 28 2015 | Vaughn Hillyard

Posted on 11/28/2015 6:24:10 PM PST by conservative98

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Ted Cruz is rising in the polls. He has one of the stronger Republican organizations in the GOP presidential race. And he certainly has a path to win the Iowa caucuses, especially after a recent Quinnipiac poll found Cruz in a dead heat with Donald Trump here in the Hawkeye State.

But some Iowa Republicans - even those open to his message - wonder if Cruz is too conservative and controversial to win the general election as the Republican Party's presidential nominee.

Bob Wilson, 64, of Johnston, Iowa, who likes Cruz but is undecided on a candidate in the GOP race, doubts the Texas Republican's appeal among the general electorate.

"Will he be elected because he's a lightning rod?" Wilson asked rhetorically while shaking his head back and forth. "It's not because of his policies. I just don't think he has the personality to capture the national election."

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Cruz was my guy originally. Unfortunately, Cruz is not electable as President. That's why Cruz is only 11% in the polls and Trump is 37%.
1 posted on 11/28/2015 6:24:10 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Hahahaha!


2 posted on 11/28/2015 6:26:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: conservative98

“Electable”

Like Dole, McCain, Romney


3 posted on 11/28/2015 6:26:54 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: conservative98

Paraphrasing Ann Coulter: “Electable” gave us Dole, McCain and Romney. Supporting the crazy conservative gave us President Reagan.


4 posted on 11/28/2015 6:28:12 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: conservative98

It will be tough because all of Washington would be against him including the republicans, but yes he is more than electable....oh and he is principled....


5 posted on 11/28/2015 6:28:15 PM PST by rwh
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To: conservative98

Unfortunately, Cruz is not electable as President.
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Right, you’re using the same argument they used against Reagan back in 1980. It wasn’t true about Reagan and it is not true about Cruz.


6 posted on 11/28/2015 6:28:48 PM PST by House Atreides (Cruz or lose! Does TG have to be an ass every day?)
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To: conservative98

He absolutely is electable. Consider the source. Don’t fall in that trap. The only way he is not electable is if true conservative get suckered into not voting for him.


7 posted on 11/28/2015 6:29:14 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: conservative98

Ah, the stupid canard that “Cruz isn’t electable.”

Romney, of course, was electable.

The nebulous “electability” test is as sound as global warming science as are those who cite it as if it held water.


8 posted on 11/28/2015 6:29:55 PM PST by FourPeas (Tone matters.)
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To: conservative98

You complain about Trump attacks and yet you post Cruz concern crap, over-and-over again.


9 posted on 11/28/2015 6:30:25 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: conservative98

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3365907/posts

Keep posting crap.


10 posted on 11/28/2015 6:31:10 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Ditto!


11 posted on 11/28/2015 6:32:20 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Who is fact checking the state controlled, leftwing media's fact checkers?)
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To: conservative98

The answer is... Probably not.


12 posted on 11/28/2015 6:32:22 PM PST by babygene (Make America Great Again)
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To: conservative98; 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz is the best and most solid social/constitutional conservative in the race. I too have wondered if he is too good and too conservative for the current American electorate to elect him. But I think it’s too soon to say. The first thing to do is to vote for him in the primaries. If he wins the nomination, then we take it from there. By that time, his name recognition will be way up and more people will get to see and hear him, which is a good thing. He’s got my vote (March 15, Missouri).


13 posted on 11/28/2015 6:32:34 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (Social and constitutional conservative)
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To: conservative98

Not a Cruz supporter, but I have two things to say:

1. If I wanted to find an establishment non-conservative to comment, Johnston is one of the places I would look.

and

2. To establishment non-conservatives, no conservative is ever considered “electable.”


14 posted on 11/28/2015 6:33:16 PM PST by EternalVigilance (The Dems are taking us to hell in a handbasket. The GOP establishment is the handbasket.)
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Then why has Cruz been polling so poorly?

I'm just counterbalancing your unfair we need to depose Trump, he is a "neo-Nazi", etc meme-building posts with this post. I like Cruz. You can say you don't agree with the nasty Trump articles you post, but there isn't a neo-Nazi Trump hating article that you won't refuse to post. This is called meme-building and dirty tricks.

15 posted on 11/28/2015 6:33:36 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Cruz is plenty electable.

Or at least as electable as a conservative can be in an era when nearly 50% of the population pays no income taxes.

Trump is at 37% because he had his own TV show and he is wall to wall in the news cycle. Everybody is heard of him, he says ‘outrageous’ things, and doubles down when the media and the GOP Establishment tries to trip him up. He puts on a great show.

I like Cruz more than Trump and will vote for him the Primary, provided he is still in. But I am willing to vote for Trump in the General (which more than I can say for Jeb, Rubio, Kasich, Christie, etc.).


16 posted on 11/28/2015 6:35:27 PM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: FreeReign

Only posted 2 hitpieces on Cruz and they weren’t that bad. 2nddivision posts all of the ugly neo-Nazi pieces on Trump. Dozens of them. Then when called on it he just says he doesn’t agree with the article. He just posts it. Whatever!


17 posted on 11/28/2015 6:36:03 PM PST by conservative98
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18 posted on 11/28/2015 6:36:12 PM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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To: conservative98

Have you even read a poll in the last month?


19 posted on 11/28/2015 6:36:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: conservative98

Have you even read a poll in the last month?


20 posted on 11/28/2015 6:36:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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