Posted on 02/04/2016 12:30:40 PM PST by McGruff
Republican operatives from inside and outside New Hampshire agree: Sen. Ted Cruz is all but doomed to finish below the top tier in the Granite State.
The winning coalition Cruz put together in Iowa won't work in New Hampshire, they say, pointing to the fact New Hampshire has the second-lowest rate of church attendance in the country. So the edge that Cruz had among evangelicals isn't particularly applicable there.
"I would advise Cruz to skip New Hampshire and go to South Carolina. I believe you shouldn't compete anywhere where it's not a favorable battlefield to win," said Stuart Stevens, a top adviser to Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
I’m interested in what sleazy new tricks St. Cruz is going to try in NH.
Trump is one delegate down from Cruz and you’ve seen how St. Cruz and his followers are bellowing about it.
Karma.
Glad to hear that Ted will get crushed next Tuesday...no chance to win NH.
This means that there are should be no expectations for Ted...
But, we still have 5 days of campaigning and a Saturday night debate...
But, we still have the 5 RINOs (Kid Rubio, Jebra, Mailbags, Krispy Kreme, and iCarly) all chopping at each other, desperately trying to get a ticket out of NH...
But, we still have the Donald doing his childish daily Twitter meltdowns...
But, we have the Donald going off to campaign Arkansas yesterday and greeted by a half-empty stadium...”sshhhhhh”, that’s the sound of a priced campaign balloon...
But, we still have Ted Cruz with the best ground game strategy of all the candidates...bringing his IA operation to NH...
I’m too am guessing that Ted will get crushed!
St. Cruz won’t be in the top three in NH. He’s in Kasich/Jeb territory in NH.
“If everyone thinks Cruz will be crushed then finishing third or fourth would be a good showing.”
That’s the expectation. Hence the term “crushed.”
NH has gone Democrat 4 out of the last 5 elections. Exactly the same as Iowa. So I guess they don’t count either.
The media is not the only group touting Cruz’s religion. Many Freepers here have determined he is the most ‘righteous’ of candidates. Cruz himself picks and chooses when to put his religion front and center.
I won’t be surprised if Cruz does worse than that and if Trump and Rubio are reversed in the final result. New Hampshire has a record.
Shows me his donors are in control of what he does.
Worried about the illegal aliens now are you?
“Shows me his donors are in control of what he does.”
And who exactly is that?
The current polling numbers, if applied to all 16 states that vote by the end of Super Tuesday, have ALL the states going to Trump, except MN (Rubio) and TX (Cruz)... and you get Trump in about a 250-210 lead over Cruz by then. Again, in a race to 1,237. Ain't nobody goin' nowhere for a while, since NO states are "winner-take-all" until March 16.
Cruz is the Liberty candidate. NH is the Liberty state.
Last time NH went ‘Pubbie was 2000. Don’t see it switching sides this year.
In reality, the only states that count are the swing states like Ohio.
Gutter politics? Prove it. Or are you just parroting the king of slime and reality tv star, Donald Trump?
There is a heroin epidemic devastating that part of the country - entangled with the open borders problem. So yeah, it’s important to them.
What? Is that nasty Cruz planning to tear down the White House along with the rest of DC when he wins?
New tricks? What were his old tricks? He has been exonerated on every one of that slimy reality tv star’s false accusations. Invalidate the primary! Hold a brand new primary just for Donald Trump! What a sore loser. What a laugh!!!
Please get back to me when you learn to pose a question that doesn’t constitute a logical fallacy.
I’m pretty sure that applying mathematical reasoning during a mud wrestling match is a technical foul.
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