Post by pavel on Apr 11, 2016 18:25:45 GMT -6
Sometimes it is good to remember how the world got Ted Cruz, GOP presidential candidate.
I was channel surfing one evening last week as Rachel Maddow was chattering and chair dancing to a campaign song about David Dewhurst. That’s a name I hadn’t heard in quite some time, the former lieutenant governor and the guy who was supposed to follow Kay Bailey Hutchison into the U.S. Senate in 2012. Add in chair dancing, and there was no way to change the channel.
I had forgotten how the planets — or perhaps the tea party leaves — aligned to give Cruz a Senate seat. Yes, I remember that Dewhurst ran a miserable campaign, skipped forums and was in a field of nine GOP Senate contenders in a presidential election year. But I had forgotten just how much a slim primary voter turnout, combined with an even slimmer runoff turnout, sealed the deal for Cruz.
Total votes cast for nine candidates: 1,406,648
And the runoff:
Total votes cast in a two-person runoff: 1,111,938
Read more: dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2016/04/how-the-world-got-ted-cruz.html/
I was channel surfing one evening last week as Rachel Maddow was chattering and chair dancing to a campaign song about David Dewhurst. That’s a name I hadn’t heard in quite some time, the former lieutenant governor and the guy who was supposed to follow Kay Bailey Hutchison into the U.S. Senate in 2012. Add in chair dancing, and there was no way to change the channel.
I had forgotten how the planets — or perhaps the tea party leaves — aligned to give Cruz a Senate seat. Yes, I remember that Dewhurst ran a miserable campaign, skipped forums and was in a field of nine GOP Senate contenders in a presidential election year. But I had forgotten just how much a slim primary voter turnout, combined with an even slimmer runoff turnout, sealed the deal for Cruz.
| Ted Cruz | 480,558 | 34.16% |
| David Dewhurst | 627,731 | 44.63% |
Total votes cast for nine candidates: 1,406,648
And the runoff:
| Ted Cruz | 631,812 | 56.82% |
| David Dewhurst | 480,126 | 43.18% |
Total votes cast in a two-person runoff: 1,111,938
Read more: dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2016/04/how-the-world-got-ted-cruz.html/