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Where did those numbers come from?
Cruz has peaked, IMO.
Cruz will only spiral downward from here. He’ll drop out soon after Super Tuesday. His base of support is very small and shrinking.
Trump still has got toe be the odds on favorite unfortunately. I think he wins NH tomorrow. Cruz will have to stop him SC. If he doesn’t and Trump wins SC, sadly I think Trump steamrolls through the rest of the way and we get stuck with another fraudulent, phony liberal as our nominee once again.
The tech policy guy at vox is now the guy who’s analysis we trust most on gop elections?
I like ted but this guy is far from an expert on gop matters.
Article makes a very interesting point re: the party elites and the media.
It’s all based in NYC which has a greatly inflated view of its own importance.
Which is just the way Ted likes it.
Interesting article.
The e’s like to say Cruz has no friends in the Senate.
Maybe calling the establishment Senators mendacious sellouts hurt their feelings.
I do feel that Cruz is the most solid candidate both in conservatism and steadfastness.
As article pointed out, Trump couldn’t even spell conservative until he started deciding having an 80 foot living room just wasn’t enough and it might be fun to be president.
That was in 2011. Not a very long history of conservatism and how long will he stay in the fold? No one knows. He does have a lot of liberal friends.
What this article misses is the possibility that Cruz is using the same sort of data-driven GOTV methods used in 2008 and (moreso) 2012 to propel Obama to victory (Narwal, Catalist).
This is pretty much the Holy Grail of politics right now — Conservative candidates who crack it and can use it to win elections are, and should be, the future of the GOP.
If his Iowa overperformance is an indication, Cruz is tapping into occasional/inconsistent voters who doen’t get reflected all that well with polls. New Hampshire will be a much better indicator of that being the case, so we’ll see tomorrow night.
With Rubio floundering now, Cruz is likely back to #2 in the race. SC will be a very, very important vote. Cruz has some natural advantages there, but Rubio has spent a great deal of time and effort too. Those two and Trump are likely going to make up the ‘final two’, I thought Rubio was going to have an easy rise to #2 in the race, but less certain after the debate this weekend.
I sure don’t underestimate his ambition, he wants it too bad and that’s why he’s hired political operatives who will do anything, just like they did with the false voter reports in Iowa and by screwing Ben Carson over.
Ted of course plays the innocent preacher-son who keeps apologizing for something he said no one would be disciplined for.
Because the person he’d have to fire is Jeff Roe and that would devastate his campaign. Sorry Dr. Carson, you maybe his “friend” but he’s made his choice and Ted’s ambition comes first.
Isn’t it funny that the one thing the Trumpers and GOP elites have in common is hatred and fear of Cruz?
After Iowa only a fool would underestimate Cruz.
He’s deadly smart politician with an amazing ground game and organization.
This is Cruz's rallying cry, everyone hates me. Washington hates me, the media hates me, Congress hates me, etc.
It's really just another take on the Dems victim strategy. Hillary says it's because she's a woman or a vast right-wing conspiracy. Sanders says it's because he's against the establishment, similar to Cruz actually.
I'm sorry but if this is all he has, and it is because he hasn't really accomplished anything, then that's a sad reason to support him.
I don't buy the Republican line that I can't get anything done now so promote me. Cruz joined Paul Ryan to promote TPA Ted Cruz joins the establishment then voted for cloture on TPA. Big deal, brought us the Iran deal and will bring us Obamatrade.
That’s okay. Everyone was underestimating the Denver Broncos.
I underestimated Cruz’s dishonesty.
This is good.
Well Bush is “misunderestimating” him.