[Teacher317]

I love Cruz, but if he cannot get above 4-6 percent soon, I don't think he will be the nominee.

I am VERY appreciative of how Trump is tearing the Left "a new one" (the media included), but he is not Presidential material in my opinion... and it is a very bad precedent to start electing the hyper-wealthy or TV celebrities for the most important singular job on Earth.

[skeeter]

Too late - the worst precedent has already been set.

At this point, nearly anything would be an improvement.

[Resolute Conservative]

Yeah in which case I am leaning toward sitting this one out. I won’t soil myself voting for another RINO loser.

[quantumman]

If Trump continues to the nomination, which seems more and more likely, Cruz needs to hedge his bets which he is doing by staying close to Trump. If Trump stumbles he has served as a very effective stalking horse for Cruz. Cruz is very smart, just ask Dershowitz, one of his professors.

[Dr. Sivana]

but if he cannot get above 4-6 percent soon

Not true. At this point Michele Bachmann was a front-runner last time around. If Cruz wasn't already sitting on a pile of donations, you might have a point. The narrative is extremely fluid. Walker and Rubio have already had a day in thesun pollwise, and nothing really stops them from having another one. Cruz is working at the local level, and is picking his states.

In Iowa, he wouldn't win even if he went all Santorum/Huckabee over there, but if he comes in ahead of John Ellis Bush , or simply gets a top four finish, exceeding expectations, he can go into South Carolina the way Gingrich did. Unlike Gingrich, he will know how to follow up on that contest (hint: he is already laying serious groundwork here in Georgia and in nearby Alabama).

We have had crowded fields before. We haven't had one that didn't quickly winnow down to a one or two man race quickly in my adult life. This might be the one. If Trump and Cruz together have a majority of delegates, can you see John Ellis Bush or Rick Perry or Lindsey Graham getting them?

Walker, explicitly treading lightly in Florida, and Cruz, spending no money or time there, sets the table for Trump to get the Winner-Take-All (bam! Right in the establishments' faces). Trump can also get nearly all the Christie support in the northeast plus plenty of his own. Cruz is VERY weak there, and Trump will be an upgrade of delegate at the convention representation.

This is shaping up to be a VERY interesting year. Trump is Macaca proof.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Polls at this time mean very little.....Newt was at less than 4% and then led by double digits twice (Dec 11 and Feb 12) - Bachmann was big at this point four years ago....Herman Cain led into Nov-Dec of four years ago....Santorum was no where at this stage....Rick Perry came in and led big for a week before imploding.....so so so so so many twists and turns to go......Cruz is doing well in three key areas: Fundraising, including more small donors than anyone....on the internet, which are your most well informed voters....and big money Super PAC support, who are also well informed and well armed.

We’re not even in batting practice, let alone the first inning. Don’t pack your bags yet.

[erkelly]

Donald Trump a bad precedent? As opposed to electing a possibly illegal alien from Indonesia, of dubious character, ill educated who was known to use drugs (and may still be doing so) about whom we really know nothing, not even his real name? Donald Trump loves THIS country and we know everything there is to know about him. I love the idea of a President Cruz too, but I am not sure that our brash loudmouth Donald Trump, with all of his outspokenness and his outsize ego, is not the very one who God has raised up to overcome these evil and very strange times to put us back on the right path. I could be wrong of course, but I suspect that Donald Trump is indeed the right man to blast through the fog and confusion of this peculiar and evil day so that in due time men like Ted Cruz can step in.

[SuzyQue]

“I love Cruz, but if he cannot get above 4-6 percent soon, I don’t think he will be the nominee.”

Do you trust the poll results?