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To: pgyanke

“If the marxists in NH like you... that’s actually a problem.”

Ronald Reagan suffered a surprise defeat by George H. W. Bush in the 1980 Iowa caucus, but the Gipper soon set about re-engineering his campaign and he pulled off a landslide victory just weeks later in New Hampshire.


41 posted on 02/04/2016 12:43:54 PM PST by McGruff (We're not in Iowa anymore Heidi.)
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To: McGruff
Ronald Reagan suffered a surprise defeat by George H. W. Bush in the 1980 Iowa caucus, but the Gipper soon set about re-engineering his campaign and he pulled off a landslide victory just weeks later in New Hampshire.

And that was the last time anyone even remotely conservative won in a contested GOP primary there.

57 posted on 02/04/2016 12:51:26 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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NH had not yet turned permanently liberal in 1980; so Reagan’s job was much easier than Cruz’s will be.


113 posted on 02/04/2016 2:09:32 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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