2016 Iowa Caucus Thread

[MarcusI]

Rand really got one bound delegate.

 

[laissez faire]

Santorum's already dropped out...I doubt Christie or Kasich will be out until after NH. I'm hoping Fiorina just goes away and Carson runs out of money. He honestly surprised the hell out of me tonight.

Huckabee has dropped out, not Santorum, he's going to SC.

 

[iNoob]

Well, Rand's effectively out...

So, looks like it's time to focus on liberty-minded candidates for local and state offices, as well as for the House and the Senate.

As for the Presidency, how does Matt Bevin 2020 sound?

RON PAUL 2020

 

[Foreigner]

Iowa City 31st of January 2016: 1500 people show up for the Rand Paul rally.
Iowa City 1st of February 2016: 620 people show up to caucus for Rand Paul. (still a few precincts to go, but..)

It's the same at the other college towns as well. (although all the votes are not counted yet)

Why are not people showing up?

 

[HarryBrowneLives]

Well, Rand's effectively out...

So, looks like it's time to focus on liberty-minded candidates for local and state offices, as well as for the House and the Senate.

As for the Presidency, how does Matt Bevin 2020 sound?

I'm thinking we need to groom or genetically engineer our own Manchurian Liberty Candidate for POTUS. Billionaire, looks like a young Clint Eastwood, speaks like Reagan, squeaky clean background, and a voice box we can pre-program with our responses on every major issue of the day.

 

[Thor]

What has the "Free State Project" been doing for the last few years? New Hampshire keeps voting for nanny state candidates in their primaries...

As of 1/22/16

• Participants (i.e. pledge to move): 19,502 (out of 20,000 needed to "make it happen")
• Participants in NH: 1,905

 

[CPUd]

Iowa City 31st of January 2016: 1500 people show up for the Rand Paul rally.
Iowa City 1st of January 2016: 620 people show up to caucus for Rand Paul. (still a few precincts to go, but..)

It's the same at the other college towns as well. (although all the votes are not counted yet)

Why are not people showing up?

They did, a whole shitload of them did, but they switched to Rubio.

 

[TheNewYorker]

Iowa City 31st of January 2016: 1500 people show up for the Rand Paul rally.
Iowa City 1st of February 2016: 620 people show up to caucus for Rand Paul. (still a few precincts to go, but..)

It's the same at the other college towns as well. (although all the votes are not counted yet)

Why are not people showing up?

Kids are not responsible nor not reliable.

 

[HarryBrowneLives]

Huckabee has dropped out, not Santorum, he's going to SC.

Frothy is a professional candidate for POTUS. That's his day job now ...raising money continually for a million to none chance. I expect him to run every 4 years for the next 7 cycles at least.

 

[WQuantrill]

Rand needs to stay in just to get on that debate stage and sound completely different from the other candidates. He just needs to go full Ron at this point. Fucking scare this country into voting for peace. Explain to them that these others on stage are completely nuts and want to get their kids killed.

Rand never really stood out during the cycle. Jones was correct in stating that Rand should have been more forceful and created his own buzz like one wise billionaire. Then he went and attacked Trump when they both have the same enemies. Tactically, he ran a poor campaign, despite the effort being there.

 

[HarryBrowneLives]

They did, a whole shitload of them did, but they switched to Rubio.

So we had really weak ass kids?

 

[JenH88]

What has the "Free State Project" been doing for the last few years? New Hampshire keeps voting for nanny state candidates in their primaries...

a bulk of them have been busy arguing with each other over who is more statist. because voting means endorsing the state. i doubt they will be much aid to Rand unfortunately.

 

[moraha]

Huckabee has dropped out, not Santorum, he's going to SC.

My mistake...I have no clue where I read he dropped out.

 

[misterx]

I have to admit, that USA USA chant at the Bernie speech made me smile a little. That's something you won't hear at a Clinton rally.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

Rand never really stood out during the cycle. Jones was correct in stating that Rand should have been more forceful and created his own buzz like one wise billionaire.

The double digit IQ trust fund baby to which you refer received 25 TIMES as much media coverage as ALL of the other candidates COMBINED.

My fucking dog could've won Iowa with that kind of coverage.

 

[groverblue]

As a said on another thread, Cruz reminds me so much of the old snake oil salesmen portrayed in the Andy Griffith Show and Gunsmoke, lol. He is such a phony.

me too.

 

[Foreigner]

Frothy is a professional candidate for POTUS. That's his day job now ...raising money continually for a million to none chance. I expect him to run every 4 years for the next 7 cycles at least.

He's not doing a good job then... Reports are that his campaign is heavy in debt. Covering it with personal loans.. And he's not a rich person.

So he may be running until one of the other candidates promise to pay for his debts in return for an endorsement.

Granted, I have been wrong about most things this cycle...

 

[WQuantrill]

The double digit IQ trust fund baby to which you refer received 25 TIMES as much media coverage as ALL of the other candidates COMBINED.

My fucking dog could've won Iowa with that kind of coverage.

I think two years ago, Trump told a confidant that he would play the media to subsidize his campaign. Trump knows what the MSM is drawn to, that being controversy and impure political thoughts. Rand should have punted the safe strategy and threw in some curveballs to garner attention.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

I think two years ago, Trump told a confidant that he would play the media to subsidize his campaign. Trump knows what the MSM is drawn to, that being controversy and impure political thoughts. Rand should have punted the safe strategy and threw in some curveballs to garner attention.

No, what the media is drawn to is a progressive democrat who can win the GOP nomination.



...you've been snookered.

 

[devil21]

CSPAN just changed their numbers back to 98.5%, Rand at 4.5% and Cruz lead over Trump went from 32%/23% to 27%/24%. Some vote massaging going on...