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The nation of his birth and the issue of constitutional intent aside, the fact that Ted Cruz didn't bother to renounce his Canadian citizenship until last year is a deal killer for me. A president shouldn't have divided loyalties. I'd sooner vote for a Cambodian cab driver who renounced his old citizenship when he became an American than someone elected to the U.S. Senate who still hung onto another passport.

However, none of this is an issue since Senators make such lousy presidential candidates. Harrison, Kennedy, and Obama are the only sitting senators elected to the presidency of the fifty who have tried. That means that 47 senators have run for president and failed (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/23/AR2008012303783.html). Arguably, Obama shouldn't count since he won his first term against another sitting senator.

Cruz probably didn’t realize he had canadian as well as us citizenship, and when he found out about the canadian citizenship, he took steps to renounce it.

Cruz’ dad is a citizen now, so that is not a concern for me.

My vote’s for Cruz.

(Now 0, on the other hand, didn’t even bother to sort out his citizenship issue , his dad didn’t care about behaving himself so he could stay here, and furthermore, 0 has lied and covered up his past.
Needless to say, I did not vote for 0 )