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Rafael's main problem is that due to his twisted upbringing he's decided to be the slimy kind of politician that campaigns as an evangelist, like Huckabee, like Santorum, but this type tends to be repulsive to everybody else.
There aren't enough fundamentalist weirdos like Glenn Beck to vote for him. After badly losing in South Carolina Cruz is finished. He'll keep on campaigning for too long but the delegate math is impossible for him.
In SC, Cruz took on the ENTIRE Establishment, Marco had the endorsement of SC Governor, Two State Senators and Congressman Trey Gowdy who is supposed to be doing such a bang up job with the Benghazi Hearings. Whatever.
The 2nd place was so close, you could almost call it a tie. Ted Cruz outperformed the polls by 4%. Trump was leading by 20% in the beginning of February, but only won by 10%. That percentage is not widening for Trump.
Rubio said he had a 3-2-1 strategy, it ended up being a 3-5-2. Amnesty wasn't that big of a deal in SC, but it will be in other SEC states.
Exit polls showed Cruz winning on terrorism and on supreme court picks.
Let's look at why that close tie with Rubio mattered so much. Ted was hit by: