Posted on 02/05/2016 5:21:09 PM PST by JSDude1
On Monday night, the Republican Party gave the first victory of 2016 to the first Hispanic candidate for president of the United States, Ted Cruz.
Sen. Cruz won for many reasons: his outsider appeal, disciplined message, and sophisticated get-out-the-vote operation. But after two trips to Iowa to volunteer for Cruz, I noticed something else about the Cruz campaign that probably made a difference.
I’ve worked on many campaigns. I started with George W. Bush’s 2004 campaign when I was 14, and I’ve volunteered at the grassroots level every year since. A wise mentor once told me the kind of organization a leader builds says a lot about him.
There was something different about the Cruz campaign, including many signs of kindness and courage:
•Cruz’s Urbandale headquarters were like many campaign headquarters – office space in a suburban strip mall. Streams of volunteers came in to sit in rows of phone bank tables, and went out with literature to canvass neighborhoods door-to-door. Staff bustled in and out of small offices. But people were relatively calm and quiet. There was orderliness.
•Unlike every other campaign I had worked on, the Cruz operation encouraged volunteers to engage. Plainly typed signs all around the phone bank said, please flag someone down if someone has you stumped with a Cruz question – we want to earn as many supporters as possible! This communicated not only a commitment to discipline, but also to rational persuasion and fearless confidence that our cause is what the voters are looking for.
•One of the offices had been cleared of desks and chairs and instead contained colorful foam mats, toy blocks, and coloring books. I saw four or five kids putting together puzzles or coloring quietly while a mother made calls from a folding chair. Someone told me
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Cruz is the only candidate I’ve ever given to - repeatedly.
And who did these “patriots” give their money to in the past?
You do realize that David Barton, the evangelical who thinks that our borders are sacred, controls Cruz’s 40 million dollar super PAC, right?
40 million is peanuts in a national election.
Who are his deep pockets donors?
You are such a wimp. A coddled and soft wimp. If your candidate (not sure who you support other than it is not Cruz), is as much of a wimp as you, your candidate will never win.
The phrase, "Politics ain't beanbag", exists for a reason. Politics is a contact sport. You have got to get yourself up and go back to work or you lose.
We all know JFK's dad bought his son's win in the WV primary in 1960. Without that win, it is doubtful JFK would have won the nomination. It is even more well known, that Illinois was probably won by Nixon even though its electoral votes went to JFK which earned him the presidency. Nixon threw less of a fit than you over an unknown number of people who may have switched votes.
Cruz' win was more broad and bigger than anyone guessed. If his margin was affected, it would have been small. Also, everyone knew about the violation notices and yet people still voted for Cruz. If Cruz had won by 50 votes, then perhaps the outcome might have been different. Cruz' margin was large for a race with that many candidates.
Go suck your thumb somewhere else.
Dathan Voelter isn’t a well-known name among Republican political operatives. But Voelter, an Austin-based attorney at Freescale Semiconductor, is the only person publicly associated with the cluster of four super PACs that he says is about to raise $31 million to support Ted Cruz’s presidential candidacy.
The PACs can raise unlimited sums, and do not have to disclose their donors, so Voelter is the front man for the billionaires putting their money behind Cruz.
Well, except for one family: Robert Mercer and wife Diana and their daughter, Rebekah. Securing the backing of the Mercers is huge for Cruz: Robert Mercer alone was the fourth largest individual donor in the 2014 cycle, according to Open Secrets.
Over the past six years, Mercer, the CEO of the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, has poured $37 million into various political causes. A Bloomberg profile published in October called him “the man who out-Koched the Kochs.†Rebekah Mercer, who owns the upscale New York City bakery Ruby et Violette and who runs the $37 million Mercer Family Foundation, will also play a key role in the political giving.
Each of the four PACs, according to a source with knowledge of the situation, represent a particular donor or donor family, and the Mercers control one.
“Donors have very specific things they want done with their money,†the source says, and separating the PACs, which are all operating under a version of the name Keep the Promise, will ensure that the money contributed by each donor is funneled to that donor’s cause of choice, whether it’s competing in the early primary states, putting ads on the air, or investing in data and analytics.
Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin broke the news about the PACs on Wednesday, and he notes that “there are no known cases in which an operation backing a White House hopeful has collected this much money in less than a week.â€
Since he surprise victory in 2012, Cruz has been a robust grassroots fundraiser, particularly online, but his team has long known that if he is going to be a competitive candidate in 2016, he is going to have to raise the sort of serious, eye-popping money that establishment candidates like Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton are already hauling in.
The formation of the various PACs has been in the works for months, and their public announcement on the day after Rand Paul launched his presidential campaign is no accident. “Our goal is to guarantee Senator Cruz can compete against any candidate,†Voelter said in a statement. “Supporters of the Senator now have a powerful vehicle with the resources necessary to aid in his effort to secure the Republican nomination and win back the White House.â€
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416643/meet-ted-cruzs-billionaire-donors-eliana-johnson
They are conservatives, evangelicals, energy billionaires, frackers and anti illegali immigration patriots. Then there are the patriotic hundreds of thousands of small donors.
Well, the election is over and done and it isn’t going to change. You can be a sore loser all you want. It makes you that much more ineffective, so please don’t stop.
Read ‘em and weep, Dave:
National: Trump 33.2 Cruz 20.7 Rubio 13.3 Carson 7.8 Bush 4.5
New Hampshire Trump 31.1 Rubio 15.1 Cruz 11.7 Kasich 11.1 Bush 9.7
South Carolina Trump 36.0 Cruz 19.7 Rubio 12.7 Bush 10.0 Carson 8.7
The last 13 Iowa polls had Trump beating Cruz. The final RCP was off by 8 points favoring Trump and disfavoring Cruz.
Why should I trust the polls???
Did I sleep through the primaries?
Trust isn’t the issue. They are a tool.
The same as a family budget that tells you that you averaged, for example, $150 a month a restaurants last year.
It tells you what a random sample of people were thinking 1 to 5 days ago.
Have a good night.
Thanks, FreeReign.
You also. I pray God grant you a restful night.
Thanks EEE!
Cruz is finished.
Carson Adviser Armstrong Williams, Not Cruz Campaign, Announced Possible Suspension of Campaign
http://theconservativehistorian.com/wordpress/2016/02/02/carson-chief-adviser-armstrong-williams-not-cruz-campaign-announced-possible-suspension-of-campaign-on-january-22/
No it was not malicious and your untrue opinions are just that unless you have any REAL proof.
No they said 25% of his supporters stayed home in Iowa.. That is a lot of votes he lost by not having a good ground game!!
The only people who think it was fraud are the bat sh!t crazy deranged trumpeters. The same folks who are gonna be having a REALLY bad day when St Donald the Progressive folds like a cheap suit....and oh boy is that day coming.
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