"Iowa, bump, eeehhh? Here's yer Iowa Bump!"
Posted on 01/30/2016 1:27:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
(CNN)--Iowa is upon us. After all the ads, the debates and the insults, a campaign that feels like it started in 1776 is finally going to count some votes. For the Republicans, the choice seems to be between two rebels: Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. The polls favor the former, history looks more favorably on the latter, though Cruz is now thought to be fighting for his survival.
This has been a peculiar electoral season. Neither party is merely thinking about how to win in November -- both are debating the kind of party that they want to be.
Mobilizing the grassroots seems to matter more than reaching out to moderates. This is because both parties have been shaken up by the presence of mavericks who have forced political elites to get back in touch with their bases. Bernie Sanders has driven Hillary Clinton to the left, where she looks about as comfortable as Rick Santorum in a gay bar.....
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Trump out polled Cruz even though Trump didn’t show up. Rubio did well though. Kudos 2 him.
None of them are any match for Cruz’s ground game, and his massive army of volunteers.
I would say: Trump; Rubio; Cruz.....
The big story is often not who wins but who “does better than expected.”
Probably nobody, and since most of the recent people who have gotten the “Iowa bump” have never gotten the nomination, I’m not sure it matters anyway.
massive armies always do well, just ask Hitler and Napoleon.
Ron Paul used to “out poll” a lot of people, but it didn’t translate into wins, did it?
After the shaming letters it may well be Trump, Rubio, Carson.
"Iowa, bump, eeehhh? Here's yer Iowa Bump!"
I can see that happening also....
Trump called ‘Iowans’ Stupid; Cruz came out with a ‘report card’ and showed them ‘stupid’, who do you think people are going to vote for?
“None of them are any match for Cruz’s”
shaming letters. :-)
Good job!!!
Like Dubya, Obama and Carter?
“...just ask Hitler and Napoleon.”
Godwin’s Law at post #7. I’m sure it’s not an FR record, but it’s gotta be 95th percentile.
Who gets the bump.
We have to wait for media to tell us.
Trump wins and will go on to win New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Huckabee and Santorum won the last two GOP Iowa events.
And neither one had the campaign funds to follow through on their wins. Cruz and Trump do.
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