[nascarnation]

Looks like the dough is with Cruz, Trump, and Bush.

They’re the most likely to slog to finish line.

[longtermmemmory]

Now that FNC changed the rules, we should call the early forum the “Kids Table Debate”

[RginTN]

Cruz debating hillary would be an awesome thing to see.

I fear hillary debating Trump would have her dredging up his pro-liberal history.

[Jim Noble]

You can’t tell anything about who can win for another 14 months.

130 million people, more or less, will vote in November 2016, and most of them are focused on Blake and Miranda at the moment.

[samtheman]

At least McCain isn’t running for president again. We can be thankful for that.

It's not the GOP way. They pick a new loser each election. Their anointed loser for this round is Jebbie.

[Red Steel]

(Note: Lindsey Graham and George Pataki are polling at near-zero. They won’t be there. No one will notice anyway.)

But they do like to bite ankles.

[Jim Noble]

will likely win him more support with the conservative voting base

Why was Thad Cochran re-elected?

[Jim Noble]

Erickson notes that Paul isn’t raising any money and is largely missing out on key news cycles

IOW, the author is pimping for media that sells paid ads.

Anything that happens now is irrelevant to Fall 2016.

[NormsRevenge]

Griping? Oh yeah!!

Lots of griping ahead.

Release the hounds of the press.

Follow the wails.

[Nifster]

I stand with Ted

NOW is the time for all good conservatives to come to the aid of their candidate

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

As we head into this season of debates and campaigns, it’s good to look back and examine where we are in this process. Here is a link to a Washington Post article from early August 2007 about the poll numbers in Iowa:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/04/AR2007080401380_pf.html

From this article, we can see that the most recent poll numbers were:

Mitt Romney 26%
Rudy Giuliani 14%
Fred Thompson 13%
Mike Huckabee 8%
John McCain 8%
Sam Brownback 5%
Tom Tancredo 5%
Tommy Thompson 4%
Ron Paul 2%
Duncan Hunter 1%

Now this was 5 months before the Caucus. The results of the caucus were:

Mike Huckabee 34.4% (an increase of 26.4% from the August poll)
Mitt Romney 25.2% (minus 0.8%)
Fred Thompson 13.4% (increase of 0.4%)
John McCain 13.0% (increase of 5%)
Ron Paul 9.9% (increase of 7.9%)
Rudy Giuliani 3.4% (minus 10.6%)

Wow! McCain wasn’t even making waves during the August poll and he came in fourth in the actual vote in Iowa. And yet he was the winner of the nomination.

Point is, all things are in flux now. Work hard for your choice. Be positive about why people should support your guy instead of just taking shots at everyone else.

Note that there were 10 candidates in August and only 6 by the time Iowa voted. We have 17 candidates now, I believe, but we will be down to around 6 to 8 by the time Iowa votes. Let’s not make the perfect the enemy of the good. That clears the way for a McCain or Romney to sweep up the splinters and win the nomination.

[TNMOUTH]

Interesting take...

Many on here tell us Cruz is finished...

[impimp]

Cruz vs Biden in a debate would be a landslide for Biden. Biden makes up stuff that can’t be countered unless Cruz has access to a smartphone during the debate.

[SoConPubbie]

    Ted Cruz Ping!

    If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.
    Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

    CRUZ or LOSE!