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Cleita

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9. Do you have any insight as to why Cruz appeals to Idahoans?

Reply to IDemo (Reply #8)

Wed Mar 9, 2016, 01:59 AM

Mar 2016

I can't imagine other than he's Canadian and knows how to talk to people used to
living in the woods, but he's actually a city guy, isn't he? Or is it the fact that he's a Christian evangelical? Did he appeal to the Mormons? Even that is mystifying to me.

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Ted Cruz won Idaho [View all] TSIAS Mar 2016 OP

Ted is going to do his darndest to saltpoint Mar 2016 #1

Ewww...... Nyan Mar 2016 #2

My poor Idaho. Cleita Mar 2016 #3

We moved here when Idaho had Dem. Gov. Cecil Andrus and Sen. Frank Church IDemo Mar 2016 #6

I lived there during Chenoweth's reign. Good you got Cleita Mar 2016 #7

Helen "black HEEElicopters" and "canned salmon means it's not endangered" IDemo Mar 2016 #8

Do you have any insight as to why Cruz appeals to Idahoans? Cleita Mar 2016 #9

Honestly can't say, I haven't really followed his policy positions much IDemo Mar 2016 #10

I despise Cruz FLPanhandle Mar 2016 #4

He's definitely the worst of the current crop, cemaphonic Mar 2016 #5

Ugh, he's so creepy and that horrible squeaky voice of his Raine Mar 2016 #11