Posted on 01/31/2016 2:20:58 PM PST by Aria
(Via New Yorker) [â¦] In Iowa, although voter registration information is free and available to the public, voter history is not. That information is maintained by the secretary of state, which licenses it to campaigns, super PACs, polling firms, and any other entity that might want it. So was the Cruz campaign accurately portraying the voter histories of Iowans? Or did it simply make up the numbers?
It seems to have made them up. Dave Peterson, who happens to be a political scientist at Iowa State University and is well-acquainted with the research on âsocial pressureâ turnout techniques, received a mailer last week. The Cruz campaign pegged his voting percentage at fifty-five per cent, which seems to be the most common score that the campaign gives out. (All of the neighbors listed on Petersonâs mailer also received a score of fifty-five per cent.)
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Social and emotional isolation sounds familiar to me. Cruz may well have a touch of the autism spectrum about him. Nothing wrong with that, but it may mean, if so, that the job of the Presidency is not the right one for him. You have to be fingertip sensitive to human interaction to be good in such a position.
That was interesting. Unbelievable that the Canadian was so arrogant that he accused Hagel of not being a fan of the US military when in fact Hagel received 2 purple hearts.
Something is missing in Cruz - like he doesn’t know when to stop. More than tone deaf, more like burning personal ambition that blinds him. No wonder no one can stand him.
I could see some sort of violation for fraudulently representing as government business, but a careful reading shows those two statutes you posted don’t apply her—he wasn’t intimidating anyone against voting or registering to vote or encouraging others to do the same.
A key phrased you missed “or to vote”.
“well have a touch of the autism spectrum about him. Nothing wrong with that”
interesting theory, actually. might be more likely to be a touch a touch of Asperger’s syndrome:
http://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/mental-health-aspergers-syndrome
I’ll bet a lot of little old ladies are scared enough to call their children and/or the SOS. I would imagine the SOS learned about it from complaints. Personally, I think someone should at least pay a fine for this crap.
And what’s so stupid about it is it might motivate someone to vote IF they’re a Cruz supporter. But it they’re not all it would do is motivate people to vote against Cruz. And what are the odds of it being mailed a majority of Cruz supporters. This was a big loser idea. And Cruz owns it.
Glad he did it before the voting started. It shows his true colors.
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