October 23, 2015
IN IOWA ALL THAT MATTER IS RELIGION AND ORGANIZATION:
Evangelical Vote Points to Donald Trump's First Drop in Iowa (Maggie Haberman, 10/23/15, NY Times)
Neither can withstand scrutiny of the former and Mr. Carson doesn't have the latter.It is only a single poll, and it will require other surveys to make clear whether the numbers are trending away from Mr. Trump. But the state's Republican base includes a large number of evangelical voters, a group Mr. Trump has had difficulty courting."Here is a reason Trump is not doing as well in Iowa as he is in New Hampshire: New Hampshire is more secular," said the Republican strategist Alex Castellanos. "Carson, the moral outsider, beats Trump, the secular, business outsider."
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 23, 2015 3:32 PM
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