senator ted cruz is now the frontrunner in the republican race for the white house.









but if you believe the mainstream media and the political pundits -- marco rubio won the iowa caucus.









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just look at tuesday's news coverage -- they marginalized senator cruz -- and glorified senator rubio.









and that's the narrative. cruz may have won -- but rubio is more electable. and yet... the numbers in iowa tell a very different story.









one out of three evangelical voters chose cruz -- so did four out of ten very conservative voters.









and 26 percent of young voters -- 18 to 29 - -- they didn't vote for rubio -- they also voted for cruz.









the voters recognize<u+00a0> a simple truth. senator cruz has been a man of his word -- a principled conservative -- and that is something the establishment cannot tolerate.









<u+201c>what we are seeing is evangelicals who have been dormant in the political process that are turning out,<u+201d> said tony perkins, president of the family research council. <u+201c>it<u+2019>s something we haven<u+2019>t seen in a number of years.<u+201d>









perkins, who has endorsed cruz, told me the voters are not interested in a moderate candidate. they don<u+2019>t want someone in the <u+201c>middle.<u+201d>









<u+201c>there<u+2019>s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead animals,<u+201d> perkins said.









looking back on the results in iowa, perkins said there should be one take-away for voters.









<u+201c>do not listen to the pundits or the polls <u+2013> but vote your values,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>it was values voters and the return of those voters that put ted cruz over the top.<u+201d>









it's not that the pundits and politicos hate senator cruz - they know he can't be controlled -- and that has them terrified.









todd starnes is host of fox news & commentary, heard on hundreds of radio stations. his latest book is "god less america: real stories from the front lines of the attack on traditional values." follow todd on twitter<u+00a0>@toddstarnes and find him on facebook.










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