Iowa Caucuses Return Watching - OFFICIAL THREAD!!! (1/3/12)

[Chieppa1]

College kids. What the fuck happened?

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Is there really even a significant difference in the amount of delegates Romney and Paul won tonight?

 

[jclay2]

Like others have said, the dire situation in this country did not happen over night. It took 100 years of gradual changes to reach this horrible place and it will not change over night. Keep fighting, not all is lost, lets go to new hampshire and work on pulling off a strong second.

 

[Kords21]

Once Santorum is properly vetted and exposed, these people in Iowa that supported him will feel really stupid.

 

[CMoore]

Do not underestimate the power of the talking box that sits in people's living rooms. This talking box can convince people to do ANYTHING. It can convince them it is cool to smoke, it can convince them that going deeply into debt for stuff is the thing to do, it can convince them that Rick Santorum is worth voting for. It is controlled by a cabal of very wealth powerful people who want to actually control the world. They are succeeding. As long as the populace watches this talking box, we are doomed.

Ron Paul has always said he wanted to come in in the top three in Iowa and he has. This is not failure. Besides, think how it feels to be Mitt Romney tonight. Additionally, the "Iowa is irrelevant" argument has been preempted. (Actually it is, but that is hardly the point.) Onward and upward. We have to fight on because giving in is not an option. But learning a few survival skills never hurts.

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

College kids. What the fuck happened?

They didn't show up to vote, like every other time in recent American history.

 

[skilt]

Kick me in the balls while I'm down.

and then leave your foot there for effect.

 

[AlexG]

College kids. What the fuck happened?

The youth was there, check the entrance polls.

 

[angelatc]

CNN's entrance polls said Ron had HALF the self identified evangelicals.

Exactly. And where are they going to go after Santorum flames out, and Bachmann / Perry are gone? CNN just said that the Gingrich speech indicated that he's pissed, and he's not going to let Romney win the nomination.

There's no promises, but you know I'm not a cheerleader for the campaign, and yet here I am - saying that this isn't over yet. We can do this, but we have to shift the national conversation back to the economy.

 

[sailingaway]

Is there really even a significant difference in the amount of delegates Romney and Paul won tonight?

Ron won more counties than Romney did. I think Romney got 17 and Paul got 20 so I don't know how that goes with delegates.

 

[nyrgoal99]

Bachmann is only 1K votes over her Straw Poll total

 

[devil21]

they did say something about their entrance poll being slanted to early arrivers and Ron's campaign was more organized so they arrived first.

And yea, I think the smears were just enough to hurt turnout.

Fwiw, CSPAN2 showed a ton of late arrivers being allowed in at 8:30 ET. I thought the cut off was 8pm (7pm Iowa time)? Correct me if Im wrong here. If Paulites arrived on time then the poll numbers would have been accurate. I wonder how many precincts let in the older late arrivers and that skewed the results? Something to look into at least and could be why Rand was so pissed off looking.

 

[Kords21]

I don't think the youth was the problem, it was the lack of appeal of Ron Paul to older voters

 

[Back In Black]

Holy herpie.

 

[opinionatedfool]

College kids. What the fuck happened?

They went home unfortunately.

 

[moonbat]

This thread reminds me of the Iowa primary 4 years ago, except I'm 4 years wiser. I was devastated back then over the loss much like many noobs tonight. However, if you compare tonight's results to 4 years ago, this is a huge victory for the R3VOLUTION! The main point of the movement is to take back the government and no one said it was going to be easy. We've made great strides over the last 4 years for liberty and should be proud of the accomplishment. There is and will continue to be more work to do as we are battling a huge media empire and corrupt puppeteers. People are listening!

THIS... 3rd is BOSS! They can't keep pretending like we're 15 kids in a basement anymore. Keep the faith this is just getting started.

 

[Heman5up]

I feel 24/24/22 sounds much better than 25/25/21. That's possible with 44% of story county left.

 

[ronpaulfollower999]

Delegates coming in. THATS WHAT COUNTS!

 

[JTforRP]

Just too many dumb old people. We can give it our all and keep pushing but at the end of the day it's very hard to overcome several decades of brainwashing.

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Bachmann is only 1K votes over her Straw Poll total

Should've had Randy Travis at the polls.