New Hampshire picks presidents
Posted on 02/03/2016 12:07:17 PM PST by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
Donald Trump remains the clear front-runner in New Hampshire’s GOP presidential primary after placing second in Iowa’s caucuses, according to a new poll.
Trump has a 24-point lead over his competition in the Granite State in the University of Massachusetts-Lowell/7 News survey released Wednesday, unchanged from the pollsters' previous survey.
He has the support 38 percent of likely Republican primary voters, compared to 14 percent for Ted Cruz and 12 percent for Marco Rubio. Jeb Bush ranks fourth, with 9 percent, while John Kasich rounds out the top five, with 7 percent.
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Polls and large crowds do not equate to the number of delegates won. Lesson learned from Iowa.
Which is why it’s REALLY, REALLY STUPID for him to be having a meltdown and threatening to sue over the Iowa results.
Right. Weird wig-outs don’t play well in a presidential campaign. Anybody remember Howard Dean?
NH is tough for Cruz because there are not many evangelicals there, plus the system is different to a caucus.
Long way to go yet so anything can happen.
Iowa and NH I am not concerned about we will get a feeling how this goes once the bigger states get involved and Super Tuesday.
So long as the establishment open border guy Rubio does not make a good showing.
Iowa caucuses, where you can campaign in the “voting booth”, vote and re-vote over and over again, pull stunts like claim other candidates have “dropped out”, and win by flipping coins...
=/= New Hampshire, where you vote in private and you win by numbers of votes cast.
The idea that Iowa now means polls are meaningless is just wishful thinking.
Lessons learned by Iowa is that they a have a really crappy system filled with fraud. They had clips on the news of blatant fraud, had Cruz & Rubio with the Carson trick.
They need to change.
Winning a 27.6% plurality in Iowa doesn't make you the nominee, nor a big holder of delegates. You need 1,200-something to be the Republican nominee, and Cruz now has 8, vs. seven for Trump and seven for Rubio.
Cruz can join Huckabee and Santorum is the list of Iowa Caucus winners rejected when the other 49 states voted.
Iowa has NO business going first.
Bunch of retards.
ahis tantrum made him look petty and unpresidential.
Yeah it’s more a crockus then a caucus.
The only thing learned from Iowa is that the State lived up to its reputation as a state full of idiots.
24 point lead bookmark.
So 2 out of three days of polling before the Iowa Caucus results is a post Iowa Caucus poll? Strange.
Trump: I demand a mulligan!
It wasn’t fair.
My first thought, initially. But, really and truly, I think that is aimed at South Carolina.
Just to raise a few eyebrows among the fine churchgoing people who might be considering a vote for Cruz.
I think it's actually pretty harmless towards that end. Other than offering an Amen to Ben Carson's harsh criticism... which is much, much more powerful.
Carson may not be polling very high, but I don't know a single Republican who does not respect him highly.
Iowa’s Caucus format is a far cry from a secret ballot, that is the lesson of IA... IA format is designed to favor the establishment/traditional politician... And also force conformity through peer pressure.
Trump was always a long shot in IA. Said it many times, but I’m not paid gob of money to yack in TV.
Cruz is following the exact same fail path as Huckabee and Santorum: Winning Iowa, getting destroyed in New Hampshire.
New Hampshire picks presidents
BTTT!
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