Romney won, could go to Trump: Nevada Alaska Massachusetts Vermont Maine Hawaii Idaho(I guess?) Michigan Washington,D.C. Florida Illinois NorthernMarianaIslands Arizona
Santorum won, could go to Cruz: Alabama Minnesota Oklahoma Tennessee Kansas Louisiana Mississippi Missouri
Gingrich won, could go to Cruz: Georgia
Romney won, could go to Rubio: PuertoRico
Texas, Arkansas and Kentucky were late May votes last time so they went for Romney, but seem like solid Cruz states.
Virginia only had Romney and Paul on the ballot but it had a huge protest vote against Romney through Paul. North Carolina was also a late Romney state last time so hard to to say where it goes, but perhaps with momentum in the rest of the South Cruz could pick it up. Ohio was a dead heat last time with a tiny Romney victory, but Gingrich also did well there, so I'd say that's a Cruz-leaning state. Utah was a solid Romney state because Mormons, but polling seems to show Cruz on top there now.
Romney won, could go to Cruz: Texas Arkansas Kentucky Virginia NorthCarolina Ohio Utah
Sorry, CNN showed a map of the south focusing on evangelicals. SC was indistinguishable from the rest of the SEC states. I’m not trying to rub it in but you are whistling past the graveyard on this one. Sorry.
True. It was a state that elected Lindsey Grahamnesty and Nikki.
The last two winners of SC equal six wives.
Gee, Jedi, I thought Cruz was supposed to wipe the floor with Trump and all of us Trumpets, or Trumpsters or whatever we are being called would have to cower in shame and head over to DU or something.....am I missing something here?
Good work, JediJones!
“..It was a state where Santorum finished a distant third four years ago, ..”
South Carolina has so many “Independents,” and many Independents seem to be liberal leaning, or libertarian. Cruz (and Santorum) are conservatives.
Furthermore, many Independents tend to be “Swing Voters.” and I feel that swing voters are uninformed, and even make up their minds in the voting booth.
It was reported that a large percentage of South Carolina voters made up their minds at the last minute (so to speak).
So no surprise here.
I agree. How is Cruz going to do worse in Alabama or Idaho compared to South Carolina.
The only way he does worse is if Trump just wrecks the whole field .
Dream on.
Then, in November, kick out the liberals - drive a state through their hearts - TRUMP
South Carolina was 70%+ evangelical. It truly was tailor made for Cruz.
I understand how hard it is to lose. After all, we lost with so many others in the past. It isn’t easy.
But let’s not deny what has happened. Cruz has NOT appealed to conservatives, moderate conservatives, evangelicals, or to the military. Only to ‘strong’ conservatives.
His path to the SEC primary is seriously in doubt. And with the above record, he’s not going to get more support in the northern states.
Tennessee will not go Cruz bank on it, not going to happen lol
The last polls I’ve seen show Trump with big leads in NV, and 10 of the 12 Super Tuesday states. Cruz has a 4 pt lead in TX and a small lead in AR. But, those polls were all taken before NH and SC. Trump is predicted to win NV by double digits, so all the polls in the Super Tuesday states could start seeing an even bigger shift towards Trump as people start thinking that they’d rather vote for someone who is winning than for the guys who perpetually come in 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th.
“This is a COMPLETELY MADE-UP FALSE NARRATIVE. It was never a favorable state for Cruz.”
Obviously, since he lost. Cruz will soon find that the non of the remaining 54 states were favorable for him either.
South Carolina went for the most “tough-talking” candidate last time
with Gingrich and again this time with Trump.
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Well maybe Cruz needs to learn how to do a little “tought talking” himself.
That may be good news for South Carolina, but bad news for Ted Cruz.
If retirees and veterans aren't that enthusiastic about the guy, it's not a good sign for him.
But I don't know about your premise. I see that SC votes differently in the primaries than TN or AL, but SC is 8th in the country in the percentage of White Evangelicals -- higher than than MS or GA.
However things were in 2012, it didn't take bias or tortured reasoning to assume that it might go for Cruz. If Ted came in third, it's not good for him.
SC does put LindseyGraham in office on a regular basis.