[springwater13]

I'm all in for Trump but I got to call it like I see it. Iowa was a winnable race for him but he decided to do it on the cheap and got burned. He didn't make the investments necessary to get out his vote.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

No one is switching their vote from Trump because he lost by 3 points.

The Ted & Rubio donors and voters are confused now at what to do.

[Lib-Lickers 2]

it’s his first campaign of any kind into politics.. let’s see if he’s a fast learner.. I expect he is and he already told Hannity things were not going to be played the same way on his part(get out the vote, ads and ground game)as it was in Iowa.. we will see next Tuesday

[RC one]

I think a lot of people people are trying real hard to read a lot more into Iowa than is actually there.

[onyx]

Why invest mega-bucks and practically LIVE in weird IOWA when IOWA’s delegates are NOT a winner take all?

Cruz earned 8 delegates

Trump and Rubio each earned 7

[Berlin_Freeper]

In a sane world this would automatically eliminate Trump as a candidate to support because his whole spiel is hiring the best people to get things done. Yet in the first big test since running he failed to do so. Go figure.

[JediJones]

"He's not going to spend any more money than he has to, and he made his bet."

This is a MAJOR problem for Trumpsters. I read the exact same thing about Ross Perot. He had problems because he was not willing to spend his own money and tried to do everything on the cheap. Billionaires got where there are in part by being greedy skinflints. You think the Scrooge McDuck stereotype is not there for a reason? Trump Tweeted Tuesday that self-funding his campaign is not worth it, but he'll continue to do so. If he continues as he's been doing, it looks like he'll lose. Turns out it's much smarter psychologically to take donor money so you're less naturally stingy with it. Knowing that you are not allowed to spend it on yourself later, you have no choice but to use it on your campaign.

[nickcarraway]

Because Trump wants attention, he doesn’t want to be president.

[right way right]

Trump and Cruz need to target Rubio this week.
Thats my hope anyway.

[MarvinStinson]

Yep, I let Soros’ Politico tell me what to think.

[cabojoe]

I wonder if anyone got fired.

[nathanbedford]

Trump lost because his ego got in the way. He chose to spend the money to raise crowds to cheer and exalt Donald Trump rather than to find out what the people of Iowa really wanted.

The man who is going to make great "deals," the man who says you should vote for him because he is the only man on earth who is "competent" to make deals with the Chinese, can't outthink an evangelical in the corn fields. We are in the twenty-first century and that evangelical in the corn fields won because he understands data mining while Donald Trump invested in red hats.

Donald Trump who says he knows how to find "fantastic" and "wonderful" people to negotiate with the Chinese, picked the wrong people to win in the corn fields.

Donald Trump's failure is not stinginess but ego! He will take that with him into the White House if you put him in there.

[Yo-Yo]

Trump is a businessman and made a business decision. You tend to do that when you’re spending your own money. With the lead he has in New Hampshire, an outright win in Iowa wasn’t as desperately needed for Trump as it was for Cruz.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

The instant I read that Sarah Palin endorsed him I knew his goose was cooked. He needed that like a hole in the head. She is a lightning rod that surely lost him a lot of previous supporters.

[Caipirabob]

I had been reading about Ted Cruz building a ground game in Iowa and other major primary states for 2 years now. He is prepared to run a very powerful ground game. If anyone came into this race with a ground game created as an afterthought they are going to get a good lesson in doing their homework early.

[New Jersey Realist]

I don’t see the problem. No one has to tell me to vote. I just know that is what I’m supposed to do. What does money and organization have to do with getting out the vote? Trump has been in the news more than any other candidate. Obviously Iowans didn’t like what he had to say.

Ironically Trump was pandering to Iowans by claiming he was for ethanol subsidies but Cruz wasn’t in favor of subsidies. Cruz drew the ire of the Governor of Iowa and was accused of running a shady campaign in releasing voter names - yet he won. Go figure!

[Allthesaints]

You nailed it. Trump is unwilling to put his money where his mouth is. He finally “blinked”. Cruz has been willing to leverage his entire worth. As much as I agree with Trump, I’ve always had that ominous feeling, and now I see it clearly.

[neocon1984]

I am all in for the constitutional conservative (Ted Cruz) and not the salesman populist (Donnie Trump). However, I agree that these results mean very little. That said, it was a nice, if temporary momentum breaker.

[euram]

It’s too bad Trump didn’t win, but his 2nd place showing is OK. I hope he learns his lesson that he can’t run a campaign on the cheap.

[Roses0508]

Other posters have already mentioned that Cruz has been organizing for a long time. Think about all the posts here on FR announcing the name of an individual who had accepted a post in the Cruz campaign in some state. Anyone with any project management experience will tell you that getting the pieces in place in a timely manner is critical. Otherwise the project begins to unravel.

As to data mining. I think it is necessary because of all the noise in our daily life. TV, radio, social media, print media, mobile phones, tablets, computers. Go camping for a weekend without your devices and you will realize in a couple of hours how very “loud” our lives are. Data mining allows you to identify the ideas or things that are of sufficient interest to your targets to break through the noise.

I guess it’s just me, but I’ve never understood why a caucus is labeled Byzantine. You go to known specific location at a known specific time and listen and chat for a bit and then vote. Not difficult, sounds like it could be interesting.

[Lopeover]

Trump is not a career politician. He is what our founders envisioned how our leaders should be.