Ted Cruz will be President – If History Repeats Itself
On Monday night, February 1, 2016, Ted Cruz won the Iowa Republican Caucus. He will also be the next president of the United States, if history repeats itself.
If the incumbent president is serving his second term, the candidate of the opposing party who wins the Iowa Caucus becomes president, history shows.
In 2000, incumbent President Bill Clinton was in his second term when George W. Bush won the Iowa Republican Caucus. Bush won the Republican nomination, and later won the White House.
In 2008, incumbent President George W. Bush was serving his second term when Barack Hussein Obama won the Iowa Democrat Caucus. Obama won the Democrat nomination, and went on to become President.
Since 1976, Bush and Obama were the only two candidates who won the Iowa Caucus for their parties that ever became the President of the United States. Alternatively, had either of the incumbent presidents, Bill Clinton or President Bush not been serving their second terms, neither Candidate Bush nor Obama, respectively, would have won their general elections for the President of the United States, history shows.
If President Obama were serving his first term instead of his second, history shows that Ted Cruz, winner of the 2016 Iowa Republican Caucus, WOULD NOT win the Republican nomination, nor the White House.
1976: Iowa Caucus second place winner becomes president
- Incumbent President Gerald Ford won the Iowa Republican Caucus but didn’t become president.
- Jimmy Carter came in second place in the Iowa democrat caucus, but went on to become president.
- Incumbent President Jimmy Carter won the Iowa democrat caucus but was not re-elected.
- Ronald Reagan came in second place in the Iowa Republican Caucus and went on to become president.
- Walter Mondale won the Iowa democrat caucus
- Incumbent President Ronald Reagan was re-elected.
- Bob Dole and Dick Gephardt were the first place winners in the Iowa Caucuses
- The third place winners, George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis went on to win their party’s nominations.
- George H.W. Bush became president.
- Incumbent George W. Bush was unopposed.
- Tom Harkin won the Iowa democrat caucus and
- Bill Clinton was the fourth place winner, and went on to become president.
- Incumbent President Bill Clinton was unopposed.
- Bob Dole won the Iowa Republican Caucus.
- President Clinton was re-elected.
- President Bill Clinton was serving his second term.
- George W. Bush and Al Gore were the Iowa Caucus winners.
- George W. Bush was the first candidate since 1976 to win the Iowa Caucus and go on to be president.
- Incumbent President George W. Bush and John Kerry were the Iowa Caucus winners.
- President George W. Bush was re-elected.
- President George W. Bush was serving his second term.
- Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama were the Iowa Caucus winners.
Barack Obama is serving his second term, and history shows that if the incumbent President is serving his second term, the opposing party winner of the Iowa Caucus for his party, in this case Ted Cruz, will go on to win the general election for the President of the United States, history shows.
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Russ J. Alan
You might find Russ J. Alan playing music, cooking, downhill skiing or even writing political articles. Some say he’s even been spotted driving 18 wheelers across the USA – a rumor Russ “will neither confirm nor deny“. -----MUSIC: You might call Russ a multi-instrumentalist. He started playing piano as a young child, picked up the guitar as a pre-teenager, started messing around with the blues harmonica and mandolins as an adult and as a “senior citizen” he started playing the 5-string banjo. Russ arranges piano music pieces and puts together guitar and banjo tablature (tabs). -----POLITICS: Russ J. Alan’s politically conservative articles have appeared on several websites such as USDailyReview.com, USAToday.com, WSJ.com ( Wall Street Journal online) USNews.com, NPR.org and RenewAmerica.com. -----MILITARY SERVICE: Russ served in the former Strategic Air Command (1978-1980) in the American Northwest and United States Air Forces in Europe (1980-1982) during the Cold War under Jimmy Carter and President Reagan (1980-1982). He served at Royal Air Force Upper Heyford, England, the air base from which the 1986 F-111 bombings of Moammar Gaddafi in Libya were launched, also one of the NATO bases closed later by Bill Clinton. -----ENGINEERING & BUSINESS: After working in mechanical engineering (1983-1992), Russ was involved in business development, marketing, and the financial sector (1992-2001). He then worked in commercial construction (2001-2006). -----DOWNHILL SKIING: Russ learned how to ski in Montana’s Rocky Mountain continental divide at the Teton Pass Ski Area ski area in Augusta, Montana, and Showdown Ski Area in The Little Belt Mountains of Neihart, Montana. He spent an entire ski season in the early 1990’s working at America’s first destination ski resort, Sun Valley Idaho. -----HOBBIES: In addition to playing his stringed instruments, he enjoys going to auctions, selling on Ebay, cooking, brewing homemade beer, gardening, tending to his laying hens, hiking with his dog and sometimes metal detecting for old buried coins. Visit Russ’s website at RussJAlan.com. You can e-mail him at Russ@RussJAlan.com or on Russ J. Alan’s facebook page.
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