While some candidates are busy trying to push themselves up in media owned polls , other quietly build a ground game and even though they rank behind in polls they go on to win IA and NH and most of the time the nomination. Obama , 3rd in polling , won IA with ground game. Huck won IA with ground game and was polling 3rd. John Kerry came from behind in 4th place. Bill Clinton didn’t win IA or NH. Reagan lost IA. See the point.
Name one Republican in the past 40 years that has lost Iowa and New Hampshire and won the nomination.