Posted on 02/02/2016 11:36:49 AM PST by Kaslin
For the same reason he’d lose in the General: NO GROUND GAME.
Rationality instead of blind worship for A “holy†candidate would indicate a rather more mundane explanation for last night
According to polling a plurality of Iowa voters are either undecided or soft in their support for any candidate.
Religious voters play a significant role in Iowa politics.They faithfully show up on Caucus night.
Religious voters have demonstrated in the past a distaste for candidate who engage in the bare knuckle politics Cruz/Trump have recently engaged in.
Historically polling in Iowa has been rather inaccurate. Iowa almost always produces a surprise result.
Recent polling in Iowa had been showing strong movement to Rubio. T
Rubio has gone full out of for the religious votes. His ads spend a lot of time with him talking about his religious faith. His stump speech spend a lot of time on his faith. Rubio is a good con-man. Like most people withou any core principals, his is good at selling what ever he is talking about at any one time.
Team Cruz switched from targeting Trump to going after Rubio on Friday which inidcates their internal polling was showing the movment to Rubio.
Trump bet the farm on his “new style†politics overcoming the standard ground game SOP of Iowa politics. Rubio and Cruz spent a great deal of time and money following the politics as usual play book in Iowa. Turn out Rubio/Cruz were right and Trump wrong
Ducking the debate because he has a wild hair up his butt over Megyn Kelly shows how petty and thin skinned he really is. That hurt him IA.
Having 25% of the vote thrown away by the bitter enders had more to do with the outcome.
Maybe the NR edition
I bet Megyn Kelly hasn’t stopped laughing yet.
Right! NO Ground game got him just under 6000 votes less then Cruz.
If I were Team Cruz I would be worried about how hard they had to work to beat Trump with the “greatest Iowa ground game ever”
I don’t know that he ‘underperformed’. Sure, many people thought he would win, but I don’t think that was in the cards. I think he performed well, considering it was Iowa.
Speaking of non-performing, the DEMS only had 1400 people total for the whole state. What did they do, send some of their people to vote for Rubio ?
I don't believe I have been given any credit by the voters for self-funding my campaign, the only one. I will keep doing, but not worth it!
Of course. Mindless campaign drones frequently laugh because actually examining facts that challenge their emotion based dogmas is far beyond their highly limited intellectual facilitates.
Trump fought in a state with a makeup not favorable to him, and he fought with both hands behind his back with his eyes shut while yawning, and still managed to come in second.
It had nothing to do with MK it had everything to do with Fox management CHOOSING MK to moderate, plus the illegal and the muzzie guest questioners.
For the same reason Jimmy Swaggart made so much loot. Evangelicals are suckers.
Because he is a loser...terrible.
You can’t run a campaign from 30,000 feet. Campaigning is more than giving speeches and leaving. Campaigning is messy business. People like Trump don’t do messy. They hire people to do messy for them. This isn’t going to be something he can contract out. If he ever gets down to real campaigning he will tire of it quickly.
Trump supporters are the definition of “suckers”, except for the ones that are flaming Liberals like Trump really is.
Cruz’ Elmer Gantry act is more convincing?
NY values do not play in the heartland - Centralized power verse distributed government.
Yeah but he’s maybe going to buy a farm in Iowa. Huh?
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