tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post7235783615226908939..comments2024-03-29T11:14:06.299+13:00Comments on AmeriNZ Blog: About New HampshireArthur Schenckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10568299067544221996noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-84592739874128575532020-07-14T12:17:35.434+12:002020-07-14T12:17:35.434+12:00LOL, I love the first line of that article: "...LOL, I love the first line of that article: "<i>"Update, Feb. 9: Oops."</i><br /><br />The thing about Cruz is that he is what he is: He can't spend all that time and energy proving his fundamentalist bonafides and then pretend none of it happened just because he's in a secular state. People aren't stupid. When he made his victory sermon speech in Iowa, sounding like any garden variety TV preacher, it made some people gasp (including people here in New Zealand, who mentioned that specifically to me). He cannot run and hide, even though it's inconvenient in more secular states. Moreover, his trying to hide his religiosity in secular states—hiding his light under a bushel, as his fans might put it—would work against him in contests in rightwing, overtly religious states.<br /><br />And, in the highly improbable event that he somehow wins the Republican nomination, that extremist religiosity will dog him every step he takes. The vast majority of US voters aren't extremist religious nutjobs—not even most Republican-leaning voters—and he'd scare the hell (so to speak) out of mainstream voters.<br /><br />My wager would be that his religious extremism will be his undoing in primaries in larger, more populous, and more representative states. The Republican Party may have become radicalised, but the majority of voters haven't.Arthur Schenck (AmeriNZ)http://amerinz.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34249799.post-77993461594113861152020-07-14T12:17:27.931+12:002020-07-14T12:17:27.931+12:00Cruz's appeal is shutting down the govt, not r...Cruz's appeal is shutting down the govt, not religion, in NH. this is a fun article from 8 months ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/06/09/we-have-a-secret-of-our-own-for-bernie-sanders-your-odds-in-new-hampshire-arent-that-good/rogerogreennoreply@blogger.com