Number of Iowans newly registering as Republicans is outpacing 2012 levels

Hotair ^ | 01/28/2016 | Allahpundit

[TBP]

The Touchback Trump campaign can’t even get the phone numbers of potential supporters to their precinct captains. That’s not a good sign for Donald Duck.

Meanwhile, it’s pretty much universally conceded that the best ground game belongs to Cruz.

But Trump will win because he says so.

[Neu Pragmatist]

Trump is a Conservative ... nice try

[GailA]

My husband is a 20 year career Navy Ret. SCPO. ‘60/80’s, he doesn’t vote for Draft Dodgers. This is just a small sample that has been ignored.

Questions linger about Trump’s draft deferments during Vietnam War
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/questions-linger-about-trumps-draft-deferments-during-vietnam-war/2015/07/21/257677bc-2fdd-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html

Uniform foot boo-boo reason for deferment
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/photos-show-trump-military-garb-dodging-draft-article-1.2298248

1 Y to 4 F deferment.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/trump-draft-deferment

[GailA]

And Trump wants more taxes, that is not conservative.

Trump’s Tax Plan: So Terrific That It Would Add More Debt Than Obama’s Seven Years In Office

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/01/28/trumps-tax-plan-so-terrific-that-it-would-add-more-debt-than-obamas-seven-years-in-office-n2110595?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

[Angels27]

With the shit lot of candidates the GOP put forward in 2012, I am surprised there were any new Republicans in 2012.

[Angels27]

Democrats want Trump. He still has a pretty high percentage of people who view him negatively. Of all the GOP candidates I think only Jeb! and Christie have higher negatives.

[Angels27]

“Trump is a Conservative”

Really? When did pro abortion, pro homo marriage, pro touchback amnesty, pro raise taxes on higher incomes,pro Hillary for Senate, pro DeBlasio for mayor, pro Cuomo for governor, pro Clinton Foundation, etc. become conservative values? Did I miss something?

[FreedomStar3028]

If people are registering to vote as republican in amounts higher than 2012 in Iowa just imagine the rest of the country. If true I imagine a lot of them are voting for the first time and not all young people.

I believe this is proof that people that have never voted before see something in Trump that makes them want to vote for him, it’s most likely his tough stance on standing up for himself and America. Lots of people don’t vote because they don’t like politicians.

[brothers4thID]

Yeah keep in mind who actually got the majority of Iowa’s delegates in 2012.

Ground game isn’t just GOTV.

[FreedomStar3028]

I predict Cruz won’t win one state.

[jjotto]

Iowa caucus rules have changed. National delegate votes will reflect and be bound by the presidential preference vote.

The presidential preference vote is now a primary in all but name, with the traditional caucusing for party business after the vote.

[brothers4thID]

Yes but by both caucus and party rules, any of the delegates assigned to a candidate—via voting— who then drops out, become “free agents”. If the Paul folks, or anyone else, organize to get their folks elected delegates they can, once again, throw a wrench in the proceedings. Remember too that Iowa is a proportional delegate assignment state. Say Paul shocks everyone and comes in third on Monday night. Cruz and Trump continue to duke it out until the convention but Paul hangs around picking up a handful of proportional delegates and making sure he has plenty of convention delegates favorable to him that can vote for him either on the first ballot because they were assigned to a candidate that has dropped out, or on the second ballot when they’re free to pick whomever. It’s not a completely crazy scenario that leaves Rand Paul playing kingmaker.

[11th_VA]

Donald Trump’s tax plan would enact a number of tax reforms that would both lower marginal tax rates on workers and significantly reduce the cost of capital. These changes in the incentives to work and invest would greatly increase the U.S. economy’s size in the long run, leading to higher incomes for taxpayers at all income levels.

That's from your link - reducing the cost of capital is pro-growth ... I don't see the down side ...

[jjotto]

https://www.iowagop.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/RPI-Bylaws-Updated-2015.pdf

...Delegates shall be bound to the candidates in direct proportion to the candidates’ respective vote shares in the Iowa Caucuses regardless of whether any such candidate has withdrawn from the race or otherwise does not have his or her name placed in nomination at the Republican National Convention...

[LS]

Guess all those “high negatives” are why he is leading Cankles in places like MI +3 or PA+2 or FL +plenty or NC, or nationally in the last Fox poll.

Yeah, those “high negatives” really hurt.

As I have explained for a while, those so-called “ negatives” aren’t normal politician negatives or unfavorables because he isn’t a typical politician. You have to look at these the way people used to see J.R. Ewing or Richard Petty or the Undertaker in WWF: crowds know it’s part of the act, they ceremonially boo, then watch the show or buy the toys cause they really aren’t disliked.

[Elsie]

Also in the neigh­bor­hood, in yet an­oth­er of­fice park, was the Trump Iowa headquar­ters, where it was less clear what activ­ity was tak­ing place. A Trump staffer de­clined to give Na­tion­al Journ­al ac­cess to any­thing bey­ond the entry­way. In the course of an hour, not a single staff mem­ber or vo­lun­teer entered or ex­ited the build­ing.

How long is FR going to allow this type of unreadable stuff to be seen on it's vaunted pages?

[Elsie]

 

 

1992 - Republicans nominated a non-fighter George HW Bush
1996 - Republicans nominated a non-fighter Bob Dole
2000 - Republicans nominated a pseudo-fighter George W Bush
2008 - Republicans nominated a non-fighter John McCain
2012 - Republicans nominated a non-fighter Mitt Romney
2016 - Republicans might nominate a fighter Donald Trump

1992 - Republicans nominated a non-fighter George HW Bush
1996 - Republicans nominated a non-fighter Bob Dole
2000 - Republicans nominated a pseudo-fighter George W Bush
2008 - Republicans nominated a non-fighter John McCain
2012 - Republicans nominated a non-fighter Mitt Romney
2016 - Republicans might nominate a fighter Donald Trump

[Elsie]

Just today, reporters were saying it looked more like a 2008 turnout.

ANY day, reporters will say most ANYthing to further THEIR chosen agenda among the sheep.

[Elsie]

Meanwhile, it’s pretty much universally conceded that the best ground game belongs to Cruz.

Among WHICH selected responders?

[Elsie]

He still has a pretty high percentage of people who view him negatively.

I seem to recall a fella like that...

Give us Barabbas!!!