iowa caucus thread
iowa caucus thread
iowa caucus thread#1
Posted: 1/3/08 at 8:33pm
let's hash it out here in this thread as it happens. in the meantime: check out a caucus live on c-span!
it's a great view of how this process happens from the inside out as it happens.
iowa caucuses live
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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re: iowa caucus thread#2
Posted: 1/3/08 at 8:59pmSorry, Deal or No Deal's on.
re: iowa caucus thread#3
Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:03pmIoway has some ugly people in it.
re: iowa caucus thread#4
Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:04pm
with 15% in, the gop primary is as follows (according to abc):
huck - 36%
mutt - 23%
admiral painter - 15%
johnny sunshine - 12%
ron who? - 11%
tcfkatc - 3%
hunter - 0%
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
re: iowa caucus thread#5
Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:04pmSorry, I am watching a doc on Jim Jones and the People's Temple. Now THERE was a leader I could get behind!
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re: iowa caucus thread#6
Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:06pmHuck and B. Hussein Obama are having great nights.
re: iowa caucus thread#7
Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:06pm
with 39% in, the democrats are as follows (according to nbc):
obama - 33%
edwards - 32%
clinton - 32%
richardson - 2%
everybody else - 0%
and namo, not everyone is as cynical as to not want to see democracy in action in the corn-belt, dammit!
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
re: iowa caucus thread#8
Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:11pm
Sorry--I posted this in the Troll's thread by mistake:
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Look for the the Republican machine to attack Huckabee so hard he will bleed from the palms and feet.
And Dick Cheney will spear him in the side, and Karl Rove will crown him with thorns.
But they will gore him so bloodily, he shall not rise on the third day.
re: iowa caucus thread#9
Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:14pm
"Sorry, I am watching a doc on Jim Jones and the People's Temple. Now THERE was a leader I could get behind!"
Puh-leeze!! Using Kool-Aid. How cheap. Last call should have at least been chocolate milk.
re: iowa caucus thread#10
Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:22pm
chocolate milk in the jungle? there ain't near enough ice. have you not seen anchorman? "milk was a bad choice!"
things tightening up a bit on the gop side, but romney's already conceded.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
re: iowa caucus thread#11
Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:25pmThe swiftboating the Republicans are gonna give Huckabee is gonna make the one they gave Kerry look like a rim job.
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re: iowa caucus thread#12
Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:26pm
Hillary is in third!
The dems want someone besides her.
re: iowa caucus thread#13
Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:29pm
if romney keeps running in 2nd it won't matter, pj. i'm not sure if it will anyway. anything they throw at him now can be laid at the door of "big politics" and his opponents. he's gonna have some big mo coming out of this no matter what they throw at him. they shoulda never let him get this far.
i'm more interested really in what the carpet bagger camp is going to hurl at al qaeda's candidate. i have a feeling it's going to make the gop look like sunday school.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
re: iowa caucus thread#14
Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:31pm
"chocolate milk in the jungle? there ain't near enough ice."
They could have drank Chocolate Parmalat. Got the Brits through WW2, the big one.
re: iowa caucus thread#15
Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:45pm
as of now it's
al qaeda's candidate - 37
the breck girl - 30
the carpet bagger - 30
senor wences - 2
the mouth - 1
and
huck-a-mania - 34
mutt - 25
admiral painter - 14
johnny sunshine - 13
ron who - 11
tcfkatc - 4
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
re: iowa caucus thread#16
Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:46pmRudy Guiliani is on CNN right now.
http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html
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re: iowa caucus thread#17
Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:48pm
I just read that 57 percent of Obama's support is 17-29.
I believe that's unprecedented.
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re: iowa caucus thread#18
Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:49pmB. Hussein Obama is doing GREAT!!
re: iowa caucus thread#19
Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:51pmyeah, but can he hope to sustain that? they made a real effort in iowa to get out the youth, targeting the universities, etc. plus where's that number coming from? exit polls? entrance polls?
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
re: iowa caucus thread#20
Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:54pm
"I just read that 57 percent of Obama's support is 17-29."
That's also the demographic that doesn't turn out to the polls. Even Michael Moore couldn't bribe them with free underwear.
re: iowa caucus thread#21
Posted: 1/3/08 at 10:11pm
I still say in the end it's gonna be Clinton and Romney.
But this certainly does spice things up.
re: iowa caucus thread#23
Posted: 1/3/08 at 10:24pm
if those numbers hold up, pj, they are remarkable indeed as they'd mean that the youth turned out more than it's proportion of the population.
let's see how it goes in nh.
i know a lot of emphasis was placed on the universities in ioway because i might be wrong here but it seems like anyone who said they'd ever thought about watching an iowa football game was allowed to caucus.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
re: iowa caucus thread#24
Posted: 1/3/08 at 11:35pm
This is what I'm getting. I think it constitutes a revolution.
Not to mention a black man winning ANYTHING this significant in a state as white as Iowa.
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Preliminary numbers show that 60% were first time caucus goers. 39% of new voters went for Obama. Young people’s turnout was 25%, which means they out performed their share of the population which is 22%. Young voters were 57% of Obama’s support, according to entrance polls.
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