I'm having a hard time caring who the right wing in Iowa thinks should be president. Looking at recent history, they usually pick someone that will go on to lose the nomination. They may indeed pick this idiot. Hell they picked Cruz, Huckabee and Santorum 3 of the last 4 (they appear to be political idiots). Who cares what they think?
In the same vein, the Democratic nominee is heavily judged based on how they perform in South Carolina which doesn't vote blue in the general election. Caring what small amounts of largely irrelevant voters think while ignoring the majority is apparently one of our favorite things as a nation.
I can't disagree. Dems seem to believe (rightly or wrongly) that whoever wins the nom in SC will have the majority black vote in the general election.
Yeah, the way elections are run in this country is become more and more tragicomic with time. Even decades ago, I wondered just how the hell we were looking to places like Iowa for our future. Not that people in Iowa are inherently bad or anything, but as far as being strategically important? Let me know when they have a population that approaches California, or a GDP.
Iowans picking Cruz, and him winning, is in spite of their choice.
He won, again, because the political landscape was in his favor: it was an off-year, his opponent made a public gaffe about gun control, and lots of conservative Californians had been moving to Texas. Cruz is not a popular politician in Texas, but because there were lots of transplants who hadn't truly experienced his bullshit, they voted for him. Couple that with often-lower turnout in off-year elections and the gun comment, and you have a recipe for a winning strategy.
This time, Cruz is on the ticket for the Presidential Election, Californians are moving to Florida, and Millennials and Gen Z are actually turning up to vote. It doesn't matter what Iowans think, and he should be worried.
I'm having a hard time caring who the right wing in Iowa thinks should be president. Looking at recent history, they usually pick someone that will go on to lose the nomination. They may indeed pick this idiot. Hell they picked Cruz, Huckabee and Santorum 3 of the last 4 (they appear to be political idiots). Who cares what they think?
In the same vein, the Democratic nominee is heavily judged based on how they perform in South Carolina which doesn't vote blue in the general election. Caring what small amounts of largely irrelevant voters think while ignoring the majority is apparently one of our favorite things as a nation.
I can't disagree. Dems seem to believe (rightly or wrongly) that whoever wins the nom in SC will have the majority black vote in the general election.
Yeah, the way elections are run in this country is become more and more tragicomic with time. Even decades ago, I wondered just how the hell we were looking to places like Iowa for our future. Not that people in Iowa are inherently bad or anything, but as far as being strategically important? Let me know when they have a population that approaches California, or a GDP.
Iowans picking Cruz, and him winning, is in spite of their choice.
He won, again, because the political landscape was in his favor: it was an off-year, his opponent made a public gaffe about gun control, and lots of conservative Californians had been moving to Texas. Cruz is not a popular politician in Texas, but because there were lots of transplants who hadn't truly experienced his bullshit, they voted for him. Couple that with often-lower turnout in off-year elections and the gun comment, and you have a recipe for a winning strategy.
This time, Cruz is on the ticket for the Presidential Election, Californians are moving to Florida, and Millennials and Gen Z are actually turning up to vote. It doesn't matter what Iowans think, and he should be worried.