Are ALL of you noticing how the MSM are starting to push Cruz!!!! they WILL destroy him!!!! They can’t touch the Donald and don’t know what to do about it!!!! We NEED Trump this time around if for nothing more than to beat these BASTARDS at their own game!!!! He is SELF FUNDED they can’t touch him!!!! ALL HEADS ARE EXPLODING, I am VERY happy!!!! Trump is not THE perfect candidate but PAYBACK is sooooo delicious!!!!!!
LoL @ ConPost
It's Cruz, not Trump, who looks more like favorite to win GOP nominationThat's a message to Hillary donors because if the donors know it's Trump, the money will dry up. However, the donors know Hillary can beat Cruz like a rented mule.
Because of Cruz's lack of diplomacy with his own party, Hillary can make the (maybe true) case that she would be better at working with Congress than the not so liked or respected, even by his own party, Cruz.
Trump would own Congress and the media...he already does.
WAPO and the donors know this.
More wishful thinking. Linke the too convenient poll for Cruz saying he jumped 20 points. No more likely than Fiorina before. Fits a rivalry meme of media, which is okay.
Will “being the most conservative” help Cruz win? Has it helped him so far? No.
It’s “Check Mate”, game over. The Democrats and GOPe can’t beat Cruz or Trump no matter what they do using the same old lies and methodology.
They’ve destroyed their credibility with the grassroots. They’ve lied too long and they can no longer ignore the real facts and truth. They are now faced with moving it up to the next level or losing. They are going to have to do something unimaginable and revolutionary to keep the Whitehouse.
And we’ll be waiting in anticipation.
While this is good news and I agree with many of his points, the author makes a few assumptions that are not at all assured in this year’s race.
“assuming that the past history of GOP nomination fights works as a broad predictor of where the 2016 race is headed.”
1. Trump doesn’t need to build on a an early state victory in order to secure funding. And let’s be clear, that is why Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina are so important: if your candidate can’t finish first or second in any of those 3, you aren’t going to donate. Funding dries up and your campaign is dead or on tenuous life support by Super Tuesday. Trump is self funding. He could come in third in all three early states (which looks unlikely) and still coast all the way to June.
2. Everything depends on turnout—as it does every year, but even more so this year. The people who show up at rallies and vote in on-line polls aren’t always the best primary voters. I keep reminding folks that Howard Dean is a great example of this. It remains to be seen if Trump’s YUGE presence in the polls will translate to primary voters, especially caucus voters.
3. In the end this is going to come down to math. Which states can a candidate win that are winner-take-all and which states that are proportional allocation of delegates can he win by the biggest margin?
The WaPo tells us what the GOP will do. I’m chortling.
Cuz’ we trust WaPo to tell us the truth, right?
How often does the Republican front runner in Iowa become the Republican candidate? From memory, not often, if at all.
this is why the clinton donor is attacking Cruz.
A good guy, but he can be easily depicted as an obnoxious, out of touch Republican that insists on shutting down the government when he doesn’t get his way.
While that’s not true, it will be the depiction and it will stick.
Hillary with 375-400 electoral votes or so.