Posted on 04/14/2016 9:14:29 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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“Cruz's roots: Asked by (Anderson) Cooper if he was more a product of the Northeast or Texas, Cruz chose the Lone Star State.
"When I went off to Harvard Law School my dad jokingly referred to it as missionary work," Cruz said.
Cruz had completed his undergrad studies at Princeton University by then, becoming the first member of his family to attend an Ivy League school.
"To be admitted to Princeton was an extraordinary thing," he said. "It was a world, frankly, that I didn't know. When I arrived there it was a scary place. You had a lot of young people who were the children of CEOs and titans on Wall Street and people with fame and wealth and power."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/13/politics/ted-cruz-family-town-hall/index.html
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Mr. Trump’s biggest challenges are five well-educated congressional districts near or including Manhattan — the 9th, 10th, 7th, 12th and 13th Districts.
The 12th District’s white voters, which includes the Upper East Side, are the best educated in the country; the 13th, which includes most of Manhattan north of 96th Street (but not Columbia University), ranks fifth. Mr. Trump has tended to struggle in areas like these: He lost the affluent white wards on Chicago’s north side to John Kasich.
Indeed, the model estimates that Mr. Trump will lose several of these New York City districts to Mr. Kasich or perhaps Ted Cruz. Whether that happens matters a lot: New York City may not have many Republicans, but it has a lot of congressional districts. If it turns out that Mr. Trump is weak here, it could prevent him from getting much more than 80 delegates, even if he’s easily clearing 50 percent statewide.
But Mr. Trump could do better here than one would guess from the area’s demographics. These areas are heavily Democratic — it’s possible that the Republican voters in these areas are nothing like the overall population of white adults (the model uses census data for non-Hispanic whites, since Republican voters are overwhelmingly white).
“Answer that and you’ll know why Cruz is finished.”
Cruz is like Hillary..the more people see him, the more they dislike him.
>>So delegate hunting is equated with being smart?
I’m more intrigued by this idea that choosing delegate hunting over winning over voters is somehow the “consistent conservative” thing to do.
Not sure I’d call him the smartest, but maybe the slickest.
As far as I can tell, the chain of logic goes like this.
1: Cruz is consistent conservative.
2: Cruz is delegate hunting instead of winning over the popular vote.
3: Therefore I HATE YOU DONALD TRUMP! WAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
QED.
No Cruz is losing badly. He’s just not the choice of the average GOP voter. He has to resort to a loser level game of trying to woo delegates for a second ballot that will never happen.
Indeed, that does seem to be the case.
I was just trying to figure out Cruzer logic.
Cruz knows how to slime his way through the political system. Trump will stop all this crap. Cruz will most likely lose his senate seat since he wasn’t even an American citizen when he won that seat and still isn’t. The truth will come out for sure that Cruz is a man without a country except maybe Cuba. His mom certainly gave up her citizenship - 1st in England then in Canada where she and her Cuban husband ran a company - something a non citizen can NOT do. Cruz has some ‘splaining to do. All the gook spawn of U.S. servicemen in Nam are more eligible than Rafael is!
Fun is knowing you believe it takes 2 U.S. citizens to be natural born. What a pathetic hypocrite you are.
>>3: Therefore I HATE YOU DONALD TRUMP! WAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
That’s what I read in their justifications too. It basically the same as the Progressive’s “My A/C just broke and it’s Bush’s fault!”
Really?
Think about all of the qualities it takes to become rich. You have to have a product or service to sell, and know how to sell it. You have to network--this is how you find the people who can do things for you. You have to know how to manage your money, or find someone to manage it for you. As you become even more rich, you have to know how to find competent managers. I could go on, but the bottom line is that stupid people do not become rich.
Don't be fooled by the public persona Kim Kardashian puts up. It's all part of her business model.
If you seriously think that it does not take a ton of savvy to become rich, consider what happens to many lottery winners. They lose the money. For the most part, these would be people of average intelligence. But they don't have the skills or intellect to be rich--even when they get a head start through winning a lottery.
I fear you may be unwittingly revealing your humanity (or lack thereof) by such an indecorious comment. But hey, good luck with that.
You left out the MAGIC intercepts. We broke the Japanese Naval and Diplomatic codes.
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