“Too bad this information won’t get to all caucus goers”. Ted Cruz in the lead-up to Monday’s vote, Trump came in second by 4 percentage points. It stands to reason that Cruz will be a major challenger for the nomination, and that he could benefit from the same kind of post-Iowa “momentum” that favors Rubio.
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“I call on Senator Cruz to take decisive action at a senior level within his campaign or I fear this culture of destructive behavior will only continue”, Carson said in a fundraising email Thursday evening. Their scores are published below, and many of them will see your score as well. “You know the crowds I’ve been getting up there”. That might mean the polls got it wrong. Mitt Romney, who said he would encourage “self-deportation” by making economic conditions intolerable for unauthorized immigrants, won just 27 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2012, down from 44 percent for George W. Bush in 2004.
“Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee and next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media, will not be chosen by the Washington establishment”, Cruz told supporters. The Register poll, for example, found Clinton winning 45 percent of likely Democratic caucusgoers, and Sanders snagging 42 percent.
Sanders’ surge in Iowa reflects a flirtation with socialism within the Democratic Party – a flirtation with a specific brand of liberalism that has ebbed and flowed for decades. With her advantage in superdelegates – the party officials who can support the candidate of their choice – Clinton now has a total of 385 delegates.
Ann Selzer, The Des Moines Register’s pollster, said Sanders appeared to pick those voters up, along with other late-deciding voters.
That, he said, is a “good thing for conservatism”. “Most media and university surveys are cheap and use methodological shortcuts that make them even more error-prone”. “They said our ideas were radical and that we could never compete with the big-money fundraising of Hillary Clinton and her super PACs”, Sanders wrote in a statement. But he’s part of what VanderSloot called “a lot of money still on the sidelines”.
I heard one genuine concession speech. Clinton’s support in Iowa’s cities and suburbs on Monday night proved robust; voters from minority groups that in 2008 supported Obama are now firmly in her camp; and she maintains virtually absolute support of the party establishment, with Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, earning no endorsements from his colleagues. He led in some polls taken before the Iowa debate by as many as seven or eight points. Climate change is real.
While it may be hard to hold one’s nose and vote for a Trump or a Paul, the alternative is that Hillary or Bernie win the Presidency and appoint a U.S. Supreme Court that is far more liberal than anything evangelical Christians have seen.
“Make this journey with me”, she told a community college audience in Nashua on Tuesday.
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Upon hearing reports that their candidate was leaving the trail to return to his home in Florida, Team Carson responded swiftly, saying the retired neurosurgeon was only going home for clean clothes but was then headed to New Hampshire for the February 9 primary.
