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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If you call Mark Steyn BS, then you are out of touch.
Actually, our arguing this is evidence that it is a suspect election.
To characterize this as fraud is slander.
current = correct
Sour grapes on Brandstand’s part (especially because he and his family are addicted to Ethanol).
Ben Carson lost maybe 1% (at most).
Turn me in.
Whoever gets your accusation will acknowledge it is a suspect election for both Cruz and Mrs. Clinton.
When the governor of a state says so, then there’s something wrong.
Like I said to another, we wouldn’t be discussing this if it weren’t a suspect election.
I’ll let you live with it instead.
Quite a indictment of the Cruz Campaign. This puts up a real red flag for me on Cruz. Sigh, I like Cruz a lot, hate the tarnish.
Voter Fraud? Come on x. You're better than this.
Self-serving comments by ethanol-crony Branstad. Dude pleaded with Iowans, “Anybody but Cruz!” And the good Republicans of Iowa listened attentively and voted for... Cruz. Unsurprising that he’d try to diminish Ted’s win.
And since you don’t know, that’s what makes it a suspect election.
And the governor of a state is pretty close to activity in his state.
If I were running for governor in that state, I’d note that a suspected 28% of Iowans favored reducing ethanol tax subsidies. That means 72% do NOT favor it. He had not reason at all to think anything about ethanol tax subsidies.
It IS a suspect election.
ROTFL! I know nobody from FR worked there.
They didn’t lie. They passed on a CNN story that has proven to be true. This is Friday night and Carson hasn’t attended a single campaign event since he left Iowa Monday night.
I hope somebody breaks the story about the empty campaign bus that Carson leased to drive around the primary states and make people think he was campaigning. What a sham.
Baloney.
Actually, they didn’t vote for Cruz. Only 28% of republicans voted for Cruz. And even that number is suspect.
The rest of the state voted for ethanol tax subsidies. 72% of the republicans and 100% of the democrats. That governor can add and subtract.
Read #11.
Judge Napolitano said there is no legal basis whatsoever for Trump’s fraud claims against Cruz.
n.b., I qualified it by saying ‘the GOOD Republicans...’
Steyn might be the most insightful, quick mind commenting in our day.
In any case, he’s seen stupid acts of government and its wannabees before. Cruz’s unethical team in Iowa is another of them.
Thank you. It is hard to argue that Cruz didn’t work his heart out to win Iowa.
Carson would have gotten even fewer votes if people knew just how much of a sham his campaign is. Nobody but a complete fraud would lease a campaign bus and have it drive around the primary states empty to make people believe he was campaigning.
Carson hasn’t attended a single campaign event since Monday night. Looks like the CNN report was true.
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