Posted on 01/29/2016 12:42:59 PM PST by justlittleoleme
For Ted Cruz, the path to victory in Iowa doesn't run through Des Moines or Davenport or other voter-rich parts of this sprawling, largely rural state.
Instead, it goes through out-of-the-way dots on the map like Ringsted — population 422 — situated closer to the Minnesota border than to Des Moines, a three-hour drive to the south.
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"I think it's great," said Joy Anderson, 47, who came from nearby Estherville, Iowa, to see Cruz in Ringsted. "He's reaching out to small town America and out here in Iowa. That's what we want."
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The Texas senator is embracing an old-school campaigning style in Iowa. Unlike rival Donald Trump, who flies in and out and holds massive rallies drawing thousands, Cruz is content to meet with anywhere from a few dozen people to several hundred. He's visited Pizza Ranches — a trademark Iowa campaign stop — and stopped by small-town diners, coffee shops and church basements that form the fabric of the vast Iowa landscape.
Cruz contrasts his dedication to visiting every corner of the state with Trump's approach.
"What we're doing is what we've been doing from the very beginning," Cruz told reporters before a campaign stop Tuesday at Bogie's Steakhouse in Albia, Iowa — population 3,800. "Doing town halls, doing retail meetings, just looking in the eyes of the men and women across Iowa asking for their support, asking for them to stand with us on caucus night. I believe the only way to win the state of Iowa is to go and ask, one on one, for the support of the grass roots."
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But Cruz sees it as a winning strategy.
"I don't believe Iowa can be won from a Manhattan TV studio or a D.C. TV studio," Cruz said Tuesday in a dig at Trump. "It has to be won on the ground."
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99 bottles of beer on the wall...
For your lips to God’s ears. I can’t imagine having to vote for him in November. I think that would be the worst vote I ever had to do even worse then Romney and McCain.
I don’t know about that but I think Marco Rubio is going to be the surprise of the night. Won’t that make the GOPe giddy with excitement.
If they do vote for trump he will be right about the people of Iowa being stupid.
Somebody tell Ted to not let any meat... 
from his loose meat sandwich fall out of his mouth--
Yeah, Iowans sure don't cotton... 
to that!
Iowans don't want to be tele-bombed from Boston studies, they want to see the candidates for themselves, or hear about them second hand from trusted friends who saw them first hand. It's worthwhile doing that for some state. Iowa is roughly the area and population limit for which that is possible. It once was nearly the median state in area and population, but the latter ranking has slipped some. It has been a reliably purple state for years so any politician that notably shifts its vote probably will do well in contested areas elsewhere. And we've gotten used to the endless ads and phone calls the process entails.
That is undoubtedly the most ridiculous thing I've seen all day. Maybe all year.
Are you vying for a suitable position in a Trump White House? (Minister of Propaganda?)
Rotflmao!
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