Ted Cruz took a position on Iowa firework sales to try and sway 60 voters

For the closing days of the Iowa campaign, Cruz's campaign had defined such pools for each of his major opponents as part of what was known internally as the Oorlog Project, named by a Cruz data scientist who searched online for "war" translated into different languages and thought the Afrikaner word looked coolest. It was just the latest way that Cruz’s analytics department had tried to slice the Iowa caucus electorate in search of an advantage for its candidate. They had divided voters by faction, self-identified ideology, religious belief, personality type — creating 150 different clusters of Iowa caucus-goers — down to 60 Iowa Republicans its statistical models showed as likely to share Cruz's desire to end a state ban on fireworks sales. [Bloomberg Politics]