With Ted Cruz - Slow And Steady Wins The Race? Iowa.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

When Cruz announced his Presidential campaign on March 23rd, he was polling around 6% and ever since then he's been crawling up albeit slowly in Iowa to where he's at now which is 9.5% but he is gaining some momentum. Is this going to turn out to be the tortoise (Cruz) versus the hare (Trump and Carson)?

[Lyin' Steve]

Sure, at this rate he'll have a full 11% of the vote by the time Iowa rolls around.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Cruz is my pick to win IA at this point

[Angel of Death]

Cruz is my pick to win IA at this point

If that happens, the Republican race will descend into an even bigger chaos than it's already in.

[Penelope]

If Cruz wins, the establishment will be forced to back Rand or Rubio since Carson and Trump will be there to win other states.

[Brewer]

If Cruz wins, the establishment will be forced to back Rand or Rubio since Carson and Trump will be there to win other states.

LOL, they would obviously back Rubio before they would come anywhere close to supporting Paul's joke of a campaign.

[Lyin' Steve]

If Cruz wins, the establishment will be forced to back Rand or Rubio since Carson and Trump will be there to win other states.

LOL, they would obviously back Rubio before they would come anywhere close to supporting Paul's joke of a campaign.

If Rubio implodes, who will they back then?

The establishment would support Gilmore before they support Rand.

[Flake]

If Cruz wins, the establishment will be forced to back Rand or Rubio since Carson and Trump will be there to win other states.

LOL, they would obviously back Rubio before they would come anywhere close to supporting Paul's joke of a campaign.

If Rubio implodes, who will they back then?

Rubio > Bush > Kasich > Christie > Fiorina

[Blair]

If Cruz wins, the establishment will be forced to back Rand or Rubio since Carson and Trump will be there to win other states.

LOL, they would obviously back Rubio before they would come anywhere close to supporting Paul's joke of a campaign.

If Rubio implodes, who will they back then?

Rubio > Bush > Kasich > Christie > Fiorina

This 100%. The establishment want Rand to drop out to focus on his Senate seat

[henster]

Cruz has a lot of money certainty more than Rubio atp, I definitely think he's a legitimate dark horse. If/when Trump/Carson start to fade their support is most likely going to him and not Rubio.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Cruz has a lot of money certainty more than Rubio atp, I definitely think he's a legitimate dark horse. If/when Trump/Carson start to fade their support is most likely going to him and not Rubio.

I agree.

Fiorina, Carson, Huckabee, Christie, Kasich and Paul can all be written off, in my opinion. Jeb is undergoing 'controlled flight into terrain', but has a small chance to still pull it out. I don't believe Trump can make it to the nomination on bluster and chutzpah alone. And I think Rubio has been over-rated, because we see Jeb failing and the idea that there is no viable establishment candidate causes cognitive dissonace.

I've been watching and listening to Rubio a lot lately, and he doesn't have "it". No fire, no charisma, nothing but an underlying quaver that makes you think he's ready to crack into pieces like an egg. And the debate plus his increasingly prominent awful record in the Senate may combine to be the hammer that smashes him. Rubio is not Obama, who was always comfortable being himself. And even if he was, he's is not running against a single overconfident bigger fish - he's in a free-for-all with sharks and parasites.

Sure, he could have his own mini-Benghazi hearings moment, but I think it more likely that an assault from Trump, Paul and Jeb may crush him.

[5280]

If Jeb Bush drops out, then this race becomes a fight between Carson, Cruz and Trump.

[Making America Great Again]

I'll be honest, I like Cruz. I'd vote for him if Trump and Carson weren't running. But Trump is. And Trump will win as he always does.

[yankeesfan]

People are sleeping on Cruz.  He is probably the man most responsible for cultivating the anti-establishment wave that Trump and Carson are riding.

[Gog]

If Cruz wins, the establishment will be forced to back Rand or Rubio since Carson and Trump will be there to win other states.

LOL, they would obviously back Rubio before they would come anywhere close to supporting Paul's joke of a campaign.

If Rubio implodes, who will they back then?

Kasich

[Donald Trump 2016 !]

If Cruz wins, the establishment will be forced to back Rand or Rubio since Carson and Trump will be there to win other states.

LOL, they would obviously back Rubio before they would come anywhere close to supporting Paul's joke of a campaign.

If Rubio implodes, who will they back then?

Kasich

Obamacare Kasich doesn't deserve to even call himself a Conservative. He should endorse Obama for a third term through Hillary or Sanders and call it a quits. He's tainting the Republican Party.