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The crowd sizes - and the enthusiasm - at Trump’s IA rallies are incredible!!
Folks talk about other candidates ‘ground game’, but Trump has laid an amazing ground game in IA, as well.
We’ll see how the strange caucus method works out, ultimately. It can’t hurt, to lose...and can only help, Trump to win IA.
The actual importance of "winning" a state (by which I mean getting more than fifty percent of the votes) is that the GOP now requires a candidate to get the simple majority of delegates in at least 8 states to be put on the ballot... and the GOP also made it so that 22 of the first 24 primaries were now proportional (decided soon after Rand Paul topped Mitt by 22-6 in Iowa in 2012), and is keeping many candidates in the race, so that it is very very unlikely that any grassroots candidate will have such majorities in more that 1-2 states by the halfway mark. Defaulting to a brokered convention is their fail-safe when the GOPe establishment candidates all fail.