Posted on 03/05/2016 3:26:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
DEARBORN, Mich. -- It is here in the industrial Midwest, not in the South, where Ted Cruz's audacious theory of the 2016 race was supposed to be put to one of its most important tests.
Michigan's primary on Tuesday -- and especially what happens that day in the Detroit suburbs that in 1980 were ground zero for a new political species, "Reagan Democrats" -- will answer this question:
Can Cruz locate and motivate legions of recently nonvoting conservatives, millions of them nationwide, especially whites without college experience, who can be pulled back into voting in numbers sufficient to determine the election in November?
But the best-laid plans of mice and men and even senators often go awry, and one problem with Cruz's plan is that it was formulated in olden days, in the world B.D.T. -- Before Donald Trump.
He, too, is courting this cohort of the disaffected, whose grievances about politicians certainly cannot this year include being ignored by them. But although Trump may bestride the political scene mastodon, Patrick Colbeck and Wendy Day are undaunted....
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Well, unless your office contains 330 million workers that doesn’t count for much, but thanks for passing that along.
Is there pizza in Mumbai?
State challenges are by definition not federal. Illinois was the most recent, I believe.
It’s not a state question!!!! It is constitutional!! state?? what a joke.
It’s the constitutional part that gives the states the power to deem whom they think is qualified.
you are kidding— right? what happens now?
You claimed he was ineligible, I offered evidence to the contrary. We apparently don’t agree. Oh well.
FUGW.
I’ve noticed the same even though I am only class of 2004.
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