God knows whats next....but congrats to Cruz on a victory well deserved
"Apparently Texas Senator Ted Cruz can win a high turnout caucus. Nearly 190,000 Iowans turned out to caucus on Monday night, far exceeding anyone's wildest expectations. Cruz garnered an impressive 51,649 votes, making him the biggest Republican voter-getter in Iowa caucus history. Donald Trump posted 45,416 votes, 6,233 fewer than Cruz.
The surprise of the night was Cruz's ability to post over 50,000 votes, but also Marco Rubio's strong third place finish with 43,132 votes.
More in the morning."
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Yesterday:
Craig Robinson - Iowa Repubican: Why I don't Think Cruz will win Iowa
"I don't think Texas Senator Ted Cruz can win Iowa.
As you have all seen on these pages before, I'm one of the few people who don't think Cruz's record matches the persona he's built since running for the United States Senate in 2012. I'm also not impressed with the campaign he put together in Iowa. For all the talk of the Cruz campaign's vaunted ground game and use of analytics, I think it's just that, talk.
One would think that a campaign using analytics would focus its efforts where the voters are, yet the Cruz campaign prioritized hitting all 99 counties with a couple long bus tours in remote parts of the state instead of concentrating their efforts where they need to be strong.
National reporters have been obsessed about Camp Cruz, a dormitory on the AIB college of business in Des Moines, that houses out-of-state volunteers. These volunteers have made thousands of phone calls and knocked on doors, but caucus politics is more about a personal connection between the voter and the candidate than anything else. I'm not saying out-of-state volunteers are worthless. Other campaigns have them too, but there is a lot more to caucus campaigns than door-knocking and phone banking.".....