Donâ€™t sleep on Ted Cruz. The next five weeks look very, very good for him.

Cruz's win in the Iowa caucuses last week was, as it has been for every recent GOP Iowa winner, heavily reliant on evangelical Christians. He over-performed among this group, beating Trump 34-22 among them.

Two points here. The first is that, yes, Iowa is a very evangelical state, and not every state -- read: New Hampshire -- has the same makeup. In fact, New Hampshire is the least religious state in the country, according to Gallup, and PRRI reports only about 1 in 10 residents is an evangelical.

In this regard, though, the next few weeks of the GOP race look a whole lot more like Iowa than New Hampshire. And that is fantastic for Cruz.

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It may not shock you to see the most heavily-white-evangelical states clustered in the South. Many of them are significantly more evangelical than Iowa, where 64 percent of the GOP electorate last week was evangelical.

And here is the second point: The most evangelical states are pretty heavily front-loaded in this process -- thanks in large part to the "SEC Primary" on March 1.

South Carolina on Feb. 20 and a whopping six of the 11 states holding contests on Super Tuesday/"SEC Primary" Day on the first of March have more evangelicals than Iowa does.

And here's where it gets even better for Cruz: Heavily Christian Kansas and Louisiana and heavily evangelical Kentucky vote just four days later on March 5, followed by heavily evangelical Mississippi on March 8 and heavily evangelical Missouri and North Carolina on March 15. In fact, if you exclude Maryland and West Virginia from the definition of "Southern," the Southern states will all have voted five weeks from now.

I still don’t understand. I don’t want anybody to come visit KY. My family and I are just going to work to make sure Cruz takes as many KY delegates as possible so that he can start removing the cancer in DC. The patient might not survive but we need a Constitutional oncologist, administering chemo, radiation and radical surgery like Cruz not an Olympic coach, promising gold medals, like Trump.

I find it rather interesting to see the number of people on this website who quote Scripture in their taglines or say that they’re Christians and spend their time attacking Ted Cruz, a fellow Christian.

Mr. Cruz has made a public profession of his faith and indicated that it has made a huge difference in the life of his family. I also wonder why people who say they are Christians or quote Scripture seem to support Donald Trump. My Bible says that God states that He will honor those who honor Him and despise those who esteem me lightly. Mr. Trump has publicly said he really doesn’t seek God’s forgiveness or does it hardly at all. Any true Christian knows the depravity of man’s heart and greatly appreciates God’s forgiving grace. Apparently, Mr. Trump thinks he doesn’t need God’s forgiveness.

It is worth noting that Mr. Trump is an admitted serial adulterer (see two of his books)and is a strip club owner. I just wonder why anyone who claims to be a Christian or person of faith would support a man whose life is so in opposition to a Godly, moral life.

Ten national and Iowa pro-life leaders have said vote for anyone but Trump. The National Organization for Marriage doesn’t want a thing to do with Trump. It is obvious that Trump is a man of dubious character and won’t stand in the least for moral principles. A vote for Trump is a wasted vote.

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