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Monday, January 4, 2016

How Cruz Wins New Hampshire, and the Nomination

Fritz Pettyjohn

For Big Corn, Ted Cruz is an existential threat, who must be stopped at all costs.  It’s the ethanol, Sherlock.  Ted Cruz thinks he's going to win Iowa, and will compete for the nomination with whichever of the establishment candidates wins New Hampshire. But he's selling himself short. He should also win New Hampshire, allowing him to wrap up the nomination on March 1st.   

For if he wins Iowa, he will have defeated the ethanol lobby. And beating Big Corn on its home turf is what can propel him to a win in New Hampshire.  People in New Hampshire hate ethanol. Ethanol is corrosive, it destroys engines. If ethanol-laced gasoline is more than a couple months old, it can't be used in high performance small engines. It is hydroscopic, attracting water, another problem with performance.........[if he wins in Iowa Cruz could rightfully proclaim himself as the one candidate in the last 40 years who has gone into Iowa and stood down one of the most notorious special interest ripoffs in American politics.....More

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