NRO: Rand Paul was Supposed To Dominate Iowa and Nevada? What Happened?

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A few misfires and some bad luck. That's what happened. BTW the NRO sucks.

http: //www.nationalreview.com/article/422872/rand-paul-campaign-struggles-iowa-nevada

“It’s like he’s fallen off the face of the earth,” says former Iowa GOP political director Craig Robinson, who writes The Iowa Republican blog. Robinson points to Paul’s absence from the fair, along with some of the cattle calls that have been held in the state. “People wonder, ‘How much does he really want this?’” he says. Robinson says he’s been favorably impressed with some of the Paul campaign’s events. Just last month on his blog, he documented the impressive organization of an event the campaign held in Poweshiek County. “But,” he says, “with this big a field, it’s just, ‘out of sight, out of mind.’” Robinson is not alone in noticing Paul’s absence from the fair. “What’s his problem?” one Republican consultant aligned with another candidate asks indignantly.
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But Paul faces a historically deep field of rival candidates, several of whom can compete with him for anti-establishment and even libertarian voters. If he does not appear to be willing to work to win those voters, they could look elsewhere. Right now, Paul is at around 3 or 4 percent in surveys of Iowa.

He sits in the same range in the limited number of surveys that have been released in Nevada. Caucus states are notoriously difficult to poll, however, because no one really knows what the strength of a campaign’s organization is until that organization turns out voters on caucus day.
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Hope?

And some observers remain wary of counting Paul out. “These guys could organize at Christmas time and you’d never know,” says one Nevada Republican. “He could resurrect.”
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You realize that the National Review was never going to report favorably on Rand, no matter what...right?

we don't break links to articles like this anymore?
 
Matt Collins said:
Rand has the best ground game in Iowa, guaranteed. I know this for a fact.
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This is beginning to sound like an old wives' tale supporters tell themselves to sleep well at night.

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logikal said:
I'll tell you what happened. Nothing's happened because we're 5 months from the caucus.
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Yes, 5 months from Iowa and Nevada caucuses - Colorado caucus could have been 5 months, or now 6 months away,
depending on - well - how hardball we want to play in the Centennial State.
fwiw, Colorado GOP could have caucus on February 2 (first Tuesday of Feb or March by state law)
 
AuH2O said:
Rand really needs a top showing in the popularity contest, too, though. With a field this crowded, he'll need the earned media momentum.
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That is very true. I'm thinking that Rand is doing a bit of a Santorum strategy; lay low until the very last minute, and then come out with a barrage of media after a heavy ground game.
 
acptulsa said:
I thought you stopped paying attention to this election.
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I did. When Ron was running I could hardly wait to jump on here and see what he was saying/doing. This go around...not so much. Rand isn't smashing myths or challenging conventional wisdom the way Ron did, nor is he willing to do the heavy lifting of educating the average voter. His campaign made a strategic blunder in going Milquetoast instead of building off the 20+ percentage base Ron enjoyed in many early states.
 
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