And The Winner Is ….
Honey, we Democrats are so lucky that we could sit on a fence and the birds would feed us.
There’s some PPP polling out this morning.
PPP’s newest national survey finds that in the wake of the shutdown, Republican voters now view Ted Cruz as their party’s leader. 21% picked Cruz to 17% for Chris Christie, and 15% for John Boehner. Cruz finished well ahead of the other GOP Senators we tested- Rand Paul got 9%, John McCain 7%, and Mitch McConnell only 4%. Mitt Romney at 8% and Sarah Palin at 4% were the other people we tested.
Numbers PPP will release next week show Ted Cruz would be an exceedingly weak Presidential candidate in the general election.
So this means the GOP has a real odd strategy to win back the White House. I guess Karl Rove is still checking the results in Ohio and doesn’t have time to explain the math behind this theory to the GOP.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/01/house-of-cruz-the-making-of-ted-cruz.html
didn’t know much about Rafael’s wife.
1here is some info.
Did she convert to the crazy side?
I think I trust their polls on football….. maybe more so than politics…….
Just sayin’
2Karl Rove may still be busy with his math, I mean THE MATH, but he still has time to weigh in on education in general:
“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans – unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.”
(even a little education goes a long way with voters and Ted Cruz)
3So Rove’s problem is he’s undereducated, right? that’s probably why he’s so slow at math, too.
4Goody, goody! Hillary should enjoy smacking him down. (figuratively of course)
5That poll is reminiscent of the various polls taken during the GOP’s 2011-2012 primary season when the flavor of the week changed from Trump to Cain to Paul to Santorum to Bachmann to… And so on. The only flavor that wasn’t a favorite was the only sane candidate, Huntsman.
That doesn’t bode well for Chris Christie in 2015-2016.
6Frankly I’m surprised that Christie got 17%. I didn’t know there were that many semi-sane Republicans left.
7In the last clown show I was hoping that Rick Perry would eventually be the GOP nominee. For 2016 I’ll wish for Ted Cruz so the Republicans can really self-destruct. I saw one poll after the shut-down that only 14% of Americans had a favorable view of the Tea Party.
8Okay, so Cruz is the leader. Are his financial backers into sadism or human sacrifice or something?
9and I think Ted and Heidi are both real smart and tough even if he is somewhat nuts, and just go ahead with their lives and find ways to accommodate. I did read a quote by her saying something like she is more moderate. You really oughta research it if you want to know more about Cruz. I think his papa is key to understanding Ted and what our responses should be. Just my opinion.
10With a father like that, Cruz doesn’t need enemies.
11Lord love ’em. For once they’re correct. THE END IS NEAR…
12for the Republican Party. Someone should have told them
about Faust and the fruits of making a deal with the Devil.
I ask merely for information, because I don’t know: how many times in, say, the last 50 years has the front-runner this far out been the eventual nominee? Or were they sane enough fifty or thirty or even ten years ago not to HAVE a front-runner three years before the election?
I well remember my horror in November 2011 when I realized that we still had another YEAR of this crap to wade through before the blasted election….
13Don’t count your chickens before they hatch. The Tea Party votes. Find one person a day, five a day, to bring up the elections with, carry voter reg. forms, offer rides, be prepared. And remember that Election Day in Texas is TUESDAY. There’s a bunch of Constitutional amendments on the ballot. EVERY ELECTION DAY IS IMPORTANT. If you have your voter registration card and one of the acceptable forms of photo ID, you should zip right through. Polls are open 7 to 7 in Texas; guess they’re that way in other states too.
14Interesting. And, Marge Wood above is right. I have my up-to-date registration card, and the ugly mug on my drivers license. Now, I need a crash course on the Amendments on the ballot!! BTW, I really feel the need to thank Teddy–he is helping to turn My Texas Blue once again!! Wendy Davis 2014!!!!! 🙂
15Everybody should be careful what they wish for. I remember oh too recently how impossibly implausible it was that some loony RWNJ guy named Ted Cruz would ever get Kay Bailey’s seat in the Senate in the General Election.
16I just did some interesting research. I won’t bore you with details except to point out that Goldman Sachs is sort of taking over other countries. If banks can take over countries, hmmm. Does Goldman Sachs own the USA? Remember Papa Cruz and transfer of wealth? Is the USA about to move its assets to Goldman Sachs? and what part do the two famous brothers have in all this? IF banks own a country, elections don’t matter. IF this were another country, how would you define what is going on?
17Let us hope that the next time the Houston Chronicle wants to endorse someone from Texas for public office they send Nancy Drew to do the investigation before endorsing. You know.. .like that stuff about Cruz being annointed a “King”.
Texans don’t have to ask “What would Jesus do?” They need to ask” What would Molly Ivins say?”.
Works for me.
18Mrs Cruz is part of Goldman Sachs. That company gets a commission on most everything in the US that changes hands. They trade (and manipulate) commodities and the futures market. That gas you bought this morning? That coffee and sugar in your cup? Those corn chips in your lunch? Goldman Sachs got pieces of all of that.
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