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Cruz'll go far, right? Hometown Anti-Hero
'IT’S weird to have a presidential front-runner in your hometown and not know it. But whatever excitement was generated here by Senator Ted Cruz’s victory in the Iowa Republican caucuses is conspicuous by its absence.
Mr. Cruz grew up here, he wears cowboy boots with his business suits and he speaks with a respectable Houston accent. Yet this city, which loves to lionize locals who make it big, has been uncharacteristically quiet about Mr. Cruz. . .
“Cruz has been part of the problem in specific situations where Hutchison would have been part of the solution,” '>>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/opinion/campaign-stops/ted-cruz-hometown-anti-hero.html?
