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George Will: Can Cruz Locate And Motivate Michigan’s Nonvoters?
Investor's Business Daily ^ | March 4, 2016 | George Will

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....

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...


TOPICS: Michigan; Texas; Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz; dearborn; election2016; mi2016; michigan; newyork; nopenext; tedcruz; texas; trump; wearestillcucks
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To: MarMema

Well, unless your office contains 330 million workers that doesn’t count for much, but thanks for passing that along.


21 posted on 03/05/2016 4:20:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: WENDLE

Is there pizza in Mumbai?


22 posted on 03/05/2016 4:21:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: hadaclueonce
"Cruz can win if Marcos and Donald keep talking about who has the bigger member."

For a country that's spent eight years being screwed by comrade dictator obama, that's a sore subject.
23 posted on 03/05/2016 4:40:01 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: WENDLE

State challenges are by definition not federal. Illinois was the most recent, I believe.


24 posted on 03/05/2016 5:14:59 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: gorush

It’s not a state question!!!! It is constitutional!! state?? what a joke.


25 posted on 03/05/2016 5:34:19 PM PST by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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To: WENDLE

It’s the constitutional part that gives the states the power to deem whom they think is qualified.


26 posted on 03/05/2016 5:36:09 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: gorush

you are kidding— right? what happens now?


27 posted on 03/05/2016 5:38:29 PM PST by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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To: WENDLE

You claimed he was ineligible, I offered evidence to the contrary. We apparently don’t agree. Oh well.


28 posted on 03/05/2016 5:44:27 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

FUGW.


29 posted on 03/05/2016 7:09:52 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: gorush

I’ve noticed the same even though I am only class of 2004.


30 posted on 03/05/2016 7:10:35 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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