Posted on 02/08/2016 2:00:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Big Conversation
The pivotal and increasingly more difficult to predict GOP presidential primary in New Hampshire will happen tomorrow. As the Tribune's Abby Livingston reports, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is campaigning with an urgency similar to his efforts in Iowa.
"Cruz already has an Iowa victory under his belt, and will soon turn to Republican supporters better aligned with his message in Southern states in the coming weeks," Livingston wrote. "But he is campaigning here in New Hampshire as if there is not tomorrow: come Tuesday, he will have made at least 17 stops in a week's time."
Donald Trump has run strongly in the Granite State for a while now, and Livingston reports that the real race here is for second place with the four "establishment" candidates -- former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio -- "desperately need(ing) a strong finish here."
Livingston adds, "Cruz could displace them all and take the second-place red ribbon, or his appeal to base voters could prove tone deaf here."
One of the wild cards at play heading into the final couple of days in New Hampshire: assessing exactly how much damage Rubio did to himself at Saturday's GOP presidential debate....
(Excerpt) Read more at texastribune.org ...
Guns, gold and less government is a good way for Cruz to address NH.
Wow way to leave yourself lots of wiggle room there Livingston.
Cruz the frontrunner... 2nd place, 1st loser (apparently no votes to be stolen in NH)
Please provide me a link to where Cruz “stole” even one vote.
Wow! You found an anti-Cruz blogger. They don’t let just anyone have a blog!
True that.
Judging by the NH polling, it sounds like Cruz is in a race for FOURTH actually.
But, in a primary, false perception is the new “reality”, whereas in a caucus debate/discussion for delegates, fraud is now the new “persuasion”.
Have to attribute poster *TBP for the “genesis” of my last example.
He’s your man... by any means necessary. What would Sarah do?
BTW, what has Cruz been apologizing for? Not doing anything wrong?
Do you imagine that your posts to me mean anything more than a gnat buzzing in my ear?
My guess, Cruz comes in Fourth.
Your efforts are misguided. Stay away from Cruz.
Any higher and he’s a winner, based on polling. Agreed?
Now I back him 120%.
We know polls aren’t exactly reliable. 33 percent of New Hampshire voters say they are undecided or could still change their minds.
Sarah doesn't.
Where did you get the idea that I do everything that Sarah Palin does? Plenty of rock-ribbed, lifelong conservatives back Ted Cruz. She’s free to back Don Trump, but that doesn’t mean I do.
Ted could finish either 2nd or 6th
Trump 1st or 1st
I can agree with you on polls. How many people are comfortable telling pollsters anything. I have no idea on the phone they are who they say they are. When I was growing up hundreds of years ago, votes mattered not poll projections. Of course now with voter fraud like in the last 8 years who knows if those count.
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