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Cruz's Iowa Win in Part Due to Culture of Kindness and Courage at Campaign HQ
PJ Media ^ | Feb 5, 2016 | T. Elliot Gaiser

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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TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: 1stcanadiansenator; christian; cruz; iowa; propagandadujour; tedspacificpartners; win
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1 posted on 02/05/2016 5:21:09 PM PST by JSDude1
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and lying to the cauci goers. Really sad.


2 posted on 02/05/2016 5:27:52 PM PST by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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To: 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.”

Somehow I feel a ‘but’ coming on.


3 posted on 02/05/2016 5:28:43 PM PST by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: JSDude1

Here they come in 3 .... 2 .... 1


4 posted on 02/05/2016 5:31:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: JSDude1

I wonder what the cross town crew at Trump and Rubio was like, I would love to compare. It really is a business principle that a corporation will become like its leader.

Great article, worth a full read.


5 posted on 02/05/2016 5:32:35 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: JSDude1

Cruz’s now suspect Iowa win was tainted with voter fraud.

Many have now acknowledged that.

Mrs. Clinton’s fraud appears to be worse, but not much.

Iowa managed to host a suspect election.


6 posted on 02/05/2016 5:34:14 PM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: WENDLE
Oh get real. I'm a Trump supporter but Cruz won IA fair and square.

Quit playa hatin'!

7 posted on 02/05/2016 5:35:49 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tedious.


8 posted on 02/05/2016 5:36:32 PM PST by skeeter
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To: xzins

No, if so point out the fraud...


9 posted on 02/05/2016 5:38:02 PM PST by JSDude1
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To: WENDLE

Only it was a mistake not intentional.


10 posted on 02/05/2016 5:38:27 PM PST by JSDude1
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To: JSDude1

http://www.steynonline.com/7445/that-smell-isnt-the-ethanol


11 posted on 02/05/2016 5:39:27 PM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Why don’t you get a list of voters that will sign an official document that they switched their vote from Carson because of someone passing along a news report from CNN. Then you can make a case that those votes be switched from the other campaigns.


12 posted on 02/05/2016 5:40:11 PM PST by DrewsDad (Choose Cruz - The Consistent Constitutional Conservative)
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To: DrewsDad

Don’t need to. Cruz admitted it and apologized.


13 posted on 02/05/2016 5:44:03 PM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: WENDLE

Did you not realize that Cruz is eligible to be elected, that he is not a Canadian?

When did you come to this understanding, from which ruling over the many done in the last few weeks?

Do you not realize that after it has been cleared up, to continue to bring it up is simply slander and a lie?

Did Trump accuse Cruz of illegal status daily for weeks or did one of his staff?

Did Cruz say what Trump claimed he said, or did one of his staff make the statement?

Who repeats the lies after having been shown it was a lie?

Who apologies and states that they were wrong?

Who is really lying?

And are you willing to be a party to it?

Is Trump clueless, or duplicitous?


14 posted on 02/05/2016 5:44:33 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: WENDLE
and lying to the cauci goers. Really sad.

Exactly!!! Why I'd bet my bottom dollar that Cruz's entire vote total came from duped Carson supporters. Without those yokels, these would have been Iowa's REAL results:

Ben Carson: 69,064
Donald Trump: 45,429
Marco Rubio: 43,228
Rand Paul: 8,481
Jeb Bush: 5,238
Carly Fiorina: 3,485
John Kasich: 3,474
Mike Huckabee: 3,345
Chris Christie: 3,284
Rick Santorum: 1,779
Jim Gilmore: 12
Ted Cruz: 7

/sarcasm

And, btw, 'caucus' isn't Latin, so the plural isn't 'cauci.' Just caucuses.
15 posted on 02/05/2016 5:45:39 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: xzins

Cruz admitted to and apologized for fraud? Please direct me to a link.


16 posted on 02/05/2016 5:45:54 PM PST by skeeter
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To: JSDude1

Article provides excellent insight into the inner-workings of the Cruz campaign.

You can clearly see this is a winning formula to win both the nomination and the general.

Cruz is playing the long game.


17 posted on 02/05/2016 5:46:38 PM PST by lifeline (The Bible alone and in its entirety is the Word of God.)
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To: JSDude1

Yeah, be kind to illegals, islamos, Dindus and gibsmedats and the votes will roll in. Meanwhile we with white privy retain the right to support all these freeloaders with our tax dollars.

One of these days ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQvG2SMVl84&index=27&list=RDKiEd3D8uGR8


18 posted on 02/05/2016 5:48:58 PM PST by soycd
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To: xzins

State your argument or not at all, I don’t click on bs articles.


19 posted on 02/05/2016 5:49:05 PM PST by JSDude1
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To: skeeter

He acknowledged shenanigans by his workers and apologized to Carson. It’s been all over the news.

The governor of Iowa said:

“Branstad similarly called out the Cruz campaign for its “questionable” tactics. In an interview with Radio Iowa on Thursday, Branstad said that the Carson note was “unethical and unfair.”

“This thing that they distributed on caucus night, saying that Dr. Carson was likely to drop out and his supporters should support Cruz, that is, I think, unethical and unfair,” Branstad said. “I think there’ll be repercussions to that.”


20 posted on 02/05/2016 5:49:07 PM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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