South Carolina is strangely missing from this analysis...and Cruz certainly will be major in SC.
Besides, Iowa changed 200 times between this time four years ago and Caucus day.
I believe it’s early and Cruz can win Iowa. There’s plenty of time left to get momentum going in that state.
No, a candidate does not need an early state “victory” to stay in. An outsider candidate just needs good showings in early states.
He’s stuck because he’s on board with increasing H1B visas by 500%.
I stopped contributing to his campaign after I saw that announcement.
He needs to stand up to international corporations and stand up for American Citizens.
Perhaps. But much of the base is very enthusiastic about his candidacy.
No one here in Iowa has spent much energy yet on the candidates. Its very early in the process; and people have lives to live outside of thinking about the coming bombardment of the candidates coming here.
Ted Cruz just might’ve lost a lot of conservative support by voting to move ObamaTrade forward.
A strategy of trying to win at the convention is an epic fail. Cruz needs to win one of the first three primaries. If I was him I’d be after SC. and then Fla.
If that’s what he’s doing, it’s hardly novel. It’s done all the time by those doing poorly in early State polls.
I routinely wonder why pundits and analysts get paid.
He's wrong on Immigration and he's wrong on Trade.
Two very big issues that will keep him from being nominated.
We have to see who drops out or becomes irrelevant. Carson is a good man who is not helping the dynamic. At some point, maybe after New Hampshire, his support is going to go somewhere else.
The Cruz people seem to be factoring in changing schedules and rules, which adds an asterisk to anything about “historically”. Theuy may also be trying to keep the competition and the media off balance.
Ted Cruz Ping! Cruz lost my vote.
ObamaTrade was the bridge too far for me.
“And much of the GOP donor class views him with disdain”
Well that hasn’t stopped Ted Cruz friends from raising more money and from more individual donors in his first week than any GOP candidate in history, including Mitt Romney. Nor has it stopped the Cruz SuperPAC’s from raising unprecedented amounts in record time. The author of the article is striving mightily to construct a narrative that doesn’t exist in real-life. Is Politico the new Salon?