Posted on 09/26/2015 1:05:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz on Saturday won the straw poll at the Value Voters Summit, the annual Washington meeting for social conservatives.
The first-term senator is among the most conservative in the 2016 GOP White House field. However, his polls numbers are among the lowest. He has less than 7 percent of the national vote, according to an averaging of polls by the nonpartisan website RealClearPolitics.com.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson finished in second, which also could be considered surprising considering Carson, another social conservative, has in recent weeks climbed to the top or near the top of several polls. However, he was under-whelming in last week’s primary debate, after a breakout performance is the first debate, in early August.
Former GOP presidential candidate and Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee finished third...
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I do not see how Carson’s positions can place him second and ahead of Huckabee. Do these value voters do any research? I get the Cruz vote. I don’t get the Carson vote. Carson is a very likable man. He is not entire with them on the issues they are suppose to care about.
Hi-de-ho, hi-de hi,
Gonna get me a piece of the sky.
Gonna get me some of that ol’ sweet roll,
Singing hi-de-hi-de-hi-de..... hooooooo.
Sometimes voters go with their heart. It’s a harmless poll. Don’t worry about it.
“..The first-term senator is among the most conservative in the 2016 GOP White House field. However, his polls numbers are among the lowest...”
I still do not get why Cruz is polling so low? Looking at his record of what he has pursued and stood up for, it does not compute that Carson should be ahead of him. Polls have to be taken with a grain of salt anyway because they are so easily designed and manipulated.
Old loyalties.
He’s actually “among the lowest” at all, he’s in the middle. In some polls he’s in 3rd or 4th nationally, so that’s a demonstrable lie.
LOL.
Apparently current support.
2 or 3 reasons Cruz is polling 4th or 5th (which is not the bottomof 15 or 17).
1) Maybe he, like Rubio, has a strategy to not peak to early...to avoid the Scott Walker strategy mistake.
2) Cruz talks in negatives, not positives. He plays the victim card. He plays defense. The victim card rarely works for conservatives (or any R). Negativity rarely works.
3) Cruz staff/leaders seem to be amateurs. Have they never run a competitive campaign before? The devil is in the details in the running of a campaign. Those details should be handled by the staff, not the candidate. Why are those details so often overlooked?
4) Despite headlines, 60% of R primary voters currently poll UNDECIDED, the candidate the media never covers.
2 or 3 reasons Cruz is polling 4th or 5th (which is not the bottomof 15 or 17).
1) Maybe he, like Rubio, has a strategy to not peak to early...to avoid the Scott Walker strategy mistake.
2) Cruz talks in negatives, not positives. He plays the victim card. He plays defense. The victim card rarely works for conservatives (or any R). Negativity rarely works.
3) Cruz staff/leaders seem to be amateurs. Have they never run a competitive campaign before? The devil is in the details in the running of a campaign. Those details should be handled by the staff, not the candidate. Why are those details so often overlooked?
4) Despite headlines, 60% of R primary voters currently poll UNDECIDED, the candidate the media never covers.
Up to a point you are right about polls. But if you take enough of them that all washes out.
Cruz is polling under 10% and if there is any manipulation going on it is the MSM doing the heavy lifting. Right now there is very little campaign advertising going on. That and the MSM pushing "anybody but Cruz" is enough to keep him in the single digits.
Be patient. As the field thins out Cruz will be there with his army on the ground and his big bank account and fewer people competing for time on the news cycle and face time on the debates. Cruz will have his day. The finalists in this race are going to be Trump, Bush, Rubio and Cruz.
Now that Walker is out which I had some hope for and Jeb is looking bad, most will back out after the Iowa caucus. Rubio may be the exception - don't want him. Fiorina may continue on because she has a vagina and people vote who they identify with. Carson may still be around because people vote for who they identify with, again. Blacks like blacks. Women like women. Whites like whites. Hispanics like hispanics. Youth like cool/hip people like Bill Clinton and Opeaser. Those are facts.
I would pay lots of dollars to see Ted Cruz debate Hellery or Sanders or Biden in the general election. He would win in any poll. Talk about the smartest man in the room...
What’s funny about loyalty?
Your number one is correct---Cruz plays the long game---but everything else is wrong.
"2) Cruz talks in negatives, not positives. He plays the victim card. He plays defense. The victim card rarely works for conservatives (or any R). Negativity rarely works."
Which is why Cruz Does NOT go negative and instead focuses on policy, solutions, and the Constitution. He has a long-tested strategy of doing so, and frankly I don't even know what you're talking about.
Cruz playing the victim? You're not thinking of Ted. You have him confused with another candidate.
"3) Cruz staff/leaders seem to be amateurs. Have they never run a competitive campaign before? The devil is in the details in the running of a campaign. Those details should be handled by the staff, not the candidate. Why are those details so often overlooked?"
Everything you say here is the polar opposite of reality.
Cruz runs what he calls a modern, grassroots, guerrilla campaign. He did it successfully to win the Texas Senate race, and he's doing it now.
In the Senate race, Ted, who had no name recognition and was polling at -1, according to one estimate, ended up beating an extremely popular, wealthy, self-funded opponent. And he won handily.
Ted doesn't think much of candidates who let their staff/advisors tell them every move to make, even to the exclusion of what they know is right. He has good instincts and prefers to go along with them. He's been laying his ground game in every state since he announced. He's meticulous; no details are being overlooked.
Cruz voted against TPA in the final vote because of McConnell’s backroom deals and because it did not contain the immigration language that both he and Sessions wanted.
Examples of negativity, the Hugh Hewitt radio show TH 8/19 Hewitt threw softballs, as he often does with most everyone. Ted went out of his way to attack Hewitt, who is not the perfect conservative, but also is not the enemy. On the issues Ted projects a negative image... He projects what he is against, not that he is for liberty, for more take home pay in my pocket, etc.
I remember 8/19 the best because I heard Rafael in person that night at Hispanic Patriots and what a contrast. Rafael was everything Ted should be.
LOL
We should spare no expense until everyone is above average.
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