Posted on 02/02/2016 5:53:55 AM PST by Rockitz
In the hours before the Iowa caucuses opened, supporters of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) began hinting that the Florida senator would perform better than expected — and better than the latest polls were showing. The Des Moines Register Poll released right before the Iowa caucus showed Rubio at 17 percent, and support was fading in the closing days before the caucus.
Rubio’s team correctly predicted a third place win for their candidate. Few predicted, however, that he would finish one point behind the frontrunner Donald Trump, who had 31 percent in the latest poll but only 24 percent in the caucus results.
The final number for Rubio (with 99 percent of the vote tallied) was 23 percent. According to Rubio advisor Todd Harris, the campaign “blew past†their vote goals early in the night.
Rubio’s performance in Iowa can partially be attributed to Harris, a former senior strategist and media consultant for Iowa Senator Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) for her win in the 2014 Senate race.
Rubio won first place in five counties in Iowa — major population centers with thousands of votes.
He won Dallas, Polk, and Story counties near the Des Moines area, as well as Johnson county in Iowa City and Scott County, which includes the city of Davenport.
Those were all counties won by Mitt Romney in 2012 versus Rick Santorum, but Romney won 16 of the state’s 99 counties.
More important is that in a three way race, the delegates in the state will be split fairly evenly.
The numbers that matter tonight: 8-7-7 Delegate allotment tonight for 3 top vote getters, Rubio’s campaign manager Terry Sullivan noted after Cruz was declared the winner.
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Suburban women voted for the magic Cuban, IMO.
The Cheap Labor Express still expects to get the amnesty candidate they paid for.
No surprise. The elites have determined they need to unify behind SOMEBODY, and Rubio is their most viable choice.
Does Iowa have a lot of bosinesses using illegal alien labor?
Businesses. Darn tablet.
-Does Iowa have a lot of bosinesses using illegal alien labor?-
Yes.
I had a strange thought about the left, Democrats know that Hillary & Bernie have no chance with all the baggage of the past 8 years of Obama against the outsider candidates. I think Democrats crossed over to vote for Rubio. They voted for the least harmful Republican to keep the political elite status quo in power. Rubio is that political elite class candidate. Rubio is woefully unprepared to be President and can not stand up against stronger politicians. He rates with Ryan, McConnell, Boehner et al as a Rino. Democrats also know that Conservatives won’t hold their nose this time and vote for Rubio. So there would be a chance for Hillary if the fix is in for her to be the nominee.
I can’t even pretend to imagine Rubio getting the nomination. It makes me physically ill.
That explains Rubio?
Simple- GOPe is convalescing around Rubio.
I think they got democrats to vote for Rubio, just like the GOPe got Democrats to vote for Cochran in Mississippi.
Large-scale factory production of pigs, chickens and eggs use a large percentage of illegals.
Large numbers of illegals also work in the meat processing plants.
Counties that used to have one murder in a generation now see murders several times a year, and they aren’t done by Norwegian Lutherans.
It is little-understood that pork and poultry producers rely on ethanol plants for cheap, high protein animal feed.
I have heard this speculation on other threads, and I have got to say it has to been one of the dumbest things to come down the pike in a long time. When the Democrat race is neck and neck, why would any of them peel off to vote Republican, for any reason. Both the Communist and Herself needed every vote they could get, they had none to spare. If one of them was miles ahead, maybe, but not when they themselves are locked in a tie. I suggest some should take off the tin foil hats and look at reality. The one that shouts their candidate under performed for the reasons, one, his supporters did not bother to show up, supported by the fact of a high turnout and still under performed, and two, the candidate himself has done a good job of alienating many GOP voters. Trump has created more anti voters than pro voters.
Trump underperformed. Part of that was Cruz’s ground game exceeding “experts’” opinions and growing the denominator. Part of that was that, in spite of the fanatic loyalty of most Trump voters, he lost some in the end. If you still had affection for Trump, but decided vote for another, the last alternative you’d pick after the past couple weeks would be Cruz. Rubio may have become the destination of some weak Trump voters, honoring Trump’s personal negatives (no Cruz) over his policy negatives (immigration.) They need to be reminded it was being anti-establishment, anti-immigration that made Trump and to vote for those principles against the anointed Bush spawn should their ‘A’ plan falter. It seems Trump does lack a ground game and it is too late to create one. Cruz has been building his since day one.
Communists play the long game & do what their party wants.
-That explains Rubio?-
In a way yes. He got the upscale vote who likes cheap service help and thinks they are “tolerant” for having a groundskeeper from Mexico.
Who is really the threat to globalists Rs and Ds?
Occam’s razor would indicate that the Communists were caucusing for Sanders yesterday. But anyway, keep believing in those fantasies.
I think Marco also benefited from the sleazy attacks against Cruz by the media and Trump... and himself.
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