[C. Edmund Wright]

you people have no concept of timing. Months ago Cruz was in single digits. Doesn’t matter. Weeks ago Cruz was up 5-10 points - doesn’t matter....because DAYS and HOURS ago Trump had surged past Cruz.....Cruz would be lucky to beat Rubio for second.....Trump was almost a two to one favorite on Nate Silver’s statistical analysis....Trump was odds on favorite not only in Iowa but to wrap up the nomination by March....all of this was reported over and over and over right here on FR and everywhere else.

You have declared victory premature....premature immaculation on your part.....and now, you’re going back weeks and months to determine who was supposedly the favorite? Your brains are....just - hell, I don’t know. A logic synapse is not firing

[DoodleDawg]

The surprise, to me at least, was not that Trump came in second but how close he came to winding up in third. Rubio came up fast. A 1300 vote swing between him and Trump and Rubio would have overtaken him.

Which tends to support what I've been saying: Cruz has supporters, Trump has fans.

[bert]

a freeper wrote weeks ago...... he who says Jesus most wins

he was right

[anton]

Iowa polling measures public support for the candidates not likely outcomes of the stupid caucuses. People who claim to plan to caucus are a multiple of the folks who actually do.