Ted Cruz uses Nixon's playbook to win in Iowa

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ted-cruz-facing-controversy-iowa-voter-violation-mailers/story?id=36631257
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/ben-carson-ted-cruz-cheating-iowa-218615

• Teddy has been a naughty boy!
• I find this sadly ironic since Iowa is a barometer of Evangelical voting, and they supposedly like Cruz for being "more Christian" than Trump or others (definitely more than that Catholic turncoat Jeb!)
• So yeah, it's really Christian of Ted to cheat his way to victory, or at least condone unclassy (if not outright unethical) actions
• An interesting history of extremists in the GOP: http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201602030900
• I am not sure which states Trump is looking stronger in (seems like the Northeast + non-TX/FL deep South?) vs. Cruz/Rubio, but of course the pre-Iowa polls have Trump ahead in all of the early states:
• http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/early_primary_state_polls.html
• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/02/us/cruz-trump-rubio-nomination-paths.html?_r=0
• Not that I am a Trump fan, but sadly I think he would be less scary for the country/world than a Pres. Cruz
• Fortunately Cruz is not that electable in a general election (a TP extremist, and you see how few mainstream endorsements he's getting), yet Rubio is, so maybe we should be more concerned about Marco beating Clinton/Sanders?
• Not that I'm so fired up about a Clinton presidency either

PS - This dude just earned Mexican citizenship with one tomato:

http://www.lamebook.com/andres/

PPS - this is what a coworker found out about election fraud (the GOP should try to clamp down on this crap rather than imaginary voter fraud, but of course they won't - and they shamelessly cite the free speech defense):

Interestingly, the scope for the sorts of federal electoral crimes that a candidate can be accused of is really narrow. Take a look at the FBI page on what it considers to be electoral crimes. Essentially, there are only three things that they'd actually consider criminal:

1. Illegal donations and financing
2. Voting by an unqualified voter or abetting such voting
3. Preventing a qualified voter from voting

Everything else is pretty much fair game. (Obviously, there are state laws, but, since the Iowa caucuses are for a federal office, the FBI would have precedence in this case.)

Noteworthy also is the list of things that they explicitly identify as not being illegal (highlighting added):

What is NOT a federal election crime:

• Giving voters a ride to the polls;
• Offering voters a stamp to mail an absentee ballot;
• Giving voters time off to vote;
• Violating state campaign finance laws;
• Distributing inaccurate campaign literature;
• Campaigning too close to the polls;
• Trying to convince an opponent to withdraw from a race.

This is extremely sleazy behavior, and yet, when I heard about it, my first reaction was, "Yeah, that sounds like Ted Cruz."