Posted on 02/02/2016 1:14:37 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
Everyone is spinning the Iowa results from last night. Marco Rubio had a surprisingly good night and Donald Trump had a surprisingly mediocre one, the big winner was Ted Cruz.
No, not just because he was the actual winner of Iowa. But because of just how different his victory is from candidates in the past. It's monumental.
Think about it for a second:
The candidate who openly talked about...
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Think about it.
Ted Cruz 2016!
I’d read this if it wasn’t promoting that arrogant little punk Crowder.
The one decision in Iowa that has the most impact on the state and Ted Cruz walked in there, told them he will get rid of the ethanol subsidy and won.
That’s about as anti-establishment as you can get.
You suck at posting. Please do better next time.
It is Iowa people - Not sure beating Trump by 4% is some huge victory. Basically his piece of the pie came out and voted.
Let me say it again - it is Iowa and most people except for the die hards out there do not even care. Santorm, Huckabee won too and where did it get them? Just saying....Much ado about nothing.
The reason why TED CRUZ won was his ground game.
And the candidate he beat wanted to increase the subsidies to Big Corn.
True, but another analysis might say 50,000 voted against big corn and 120,000 for it.
EXACTLY. Crowder absolutely nailed how Cruz’s win in Iowa was nothing short of stupendous given his dangerously principled stand on ethanol!
even trump said the ethanol thing would kill him.
i was shocked.
but the outcome wasn’t THAT FAR from the polls.
not enough to make up 22 percent lead in NH.
just telling the truth. I like Cruz. but that’s alot.
are NH and SC proportionate.
Ha. Grumpy Freeper is grumpy.
Cruz has one more delegate than Trump and Rubio. I think the importance of Iowa caucus momentum is over estimated.
Cruz doesn’t know when to use government and when not to.
4 years ago, I would have agreed with Cruz about ending Ethanol subsidies. Because I questioned then whether Ethanol was reducing our oil usage at all. Now I think with cars designed to use it better, it is reducing oil usage. In which it just might be one of those strategic moves that helps our country.
We just went through an oil price spike, that would likely have been much worse had we not been buffering our usage with ethanol.
Cruz blindly is against all subsidies of any kind. I don’t want someone who is 100% principle and 0% strategic.
Ted Cruz 2016!
Hope and pray for Ted but will go with Carson. Don’t ask me why I won’t vote for Trump.
Exactly!
I like Cruz but I don’t think that there is a state out there that he will win a landslide victory.
Iowa is a media event. A ridiculous one at that.
5,000 vote difference = no big deal.
Had Carson, Huckabeen, and Santorum NOT been in the race, Cruz would have had numbers like Huckabee and Santorum did - BIG wins.
On to New Hampshire!
I've read that even though Santorum won and Romney was a close second, Ron Paul walked away with 21 of the 30 delegates because the Iowa caucus doesn't have squat to do with how the delegates are selected in Iowa.
Its his ground game. He had like 2k+ volunteers in organized fashion. Trump had almost nothing. He relied on individuals acting on their own
Bingo Nachoman. The Cruz hysteria today is amazing.
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