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To: usafa92

All of these-—pro-Cruz and pro-Trump-—pieces on IA miss the crucial delegate count, which is that the winner will get 10-15, the loser will get 8-10, and the others will get a couple. So all these articles are focused only on the “metaphysical” and symbolic “what if,” namely what if Cruz wins. . . will it dent Trump’s “inevitability”? Of course, that only works IF Trump has a fragile ego who would be shocked and crushed by a Cruz victory in IA. It doesn’t work if Trump is, in fact, in it for the long haul and reels off 4-5 successive victories.


5 posted on 01/04/2016 7:55:59 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS
that only works IF Trump has a fragile ego who would be shocked and crushed by a Cruz victory in IA.

Agreed, but only if we append IF Trump or his supporters has a fragile ego

In any event, they don't. Trump is very well positioned for New Hampshire. Trump is NOT going to scream "YEARGH!!!!" after Iowa regardless. The ideal for Trump and Cruz is to make this a two man race, like 1980 effectively was after George H.W. Bush won Iowa. It was Reagan, George the Elder, and the Rest (Dole, Howard Baker, Phil Crane, John Connolly, John B. Anderson).
9 posted on 01/04/2016 8:06:02 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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