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

[nyrgoal99]

The only thing that gives me hope is that CNN keeps talking about Ron and is not saying he is going to get 3rd

 

[118pass]

@daveweigel
daveweigel
Big cheers at Paul HQ when they flash the Polk County numbers. First cheers in a while. #pyhrric

Again, this was just moments ago.

 

[Duckman]

That RP is doing so well after the intense negative media exposure is impressive. It's not over

HELLS YEAH. The liberty movement is a force, a real force, the ONLY force making any kind of positive change in America. Don't give up.

 

[Sublyminal]

So, who drops out after tonight, and who stays till NH, we know Ron is staying till NH.

 

[libertybrewcity]

STAY POSITIVE!!!!!! WOoHOOOoooOOOOO

 

[justatrey]

It seems like counties that Mitt Romney and Frothy are leading in have at least 90% reporting while most of Ron Paul's counties have less than 30 or 40%.

Oh please be right...

 

[hammy]

Game over.

It was fun...

I will support Ron vehemently until the end, but let's not kid ourselves. It's over.

 

[daviddee]

...

 

[boethius27]

"ROMNEY, SANTORUM TIED IN IOWA. PAUL A CLOSE THIRD" CNN is making me sick.

 

[cdc482]

we are going to get 1st

 

[wstrucke]

So, who drops out after tonight, and who stays till NH, we know Ron is staying till NH.

Everyone stays in until at least SC, possibly FL.

 

[Tinnuhana]

I'm on my prep and this is really nerve-wracking. I agree with folks sayinhg that as soon as Santorum is vetted, his rating is going down. At the same time, a win in Iowa would be great. It's out of our hands, now. It's like watching a game on 12 hour delay.The results are in. They just have to be counted. Pray for the best, then pray that whatever the results are, we and the campaign will use this wisely to get us the best possible reslut in NH and the other states.

 

[susano]

http://www.politico.com/2012-election/map/#/President/2012/Primary/IA

county maps

 

[RIPLEYMOM]

No, not saying 'run third party', but very important the idea of it, the possibility, the numbers.

 

[brandon]

I'm having a real hard time watching these numbers. Stressing me out way too much...I think I may just have to go to bed and check back in the morning.

 

[nasonex]

I'm very upset. I'm seriously considering giving up on politics. Don't get me wrong, Ron Paul should fight until the bitter end. However, I don't know if I can take this anymore. The mainstream media stole this election from us, by pushing Frothy for a week, while constantly attacking Ron Paul in every way possible. It was blatant manipulation of the election by the media, period. If it were not for the last week in which the media pushed and pushed for Santorum, we would be winning right now. This makes me think that any time we get close to winning a state, the mainstream media will push another candidate hard, just to make us lose.

I told someone in the chatroom that if Ron Paul does not win to ban me. I was banned from the chatroom. The moment we know for sure that Ron Paul is not going to win tonight, I would like someone to ban me. I'm not going to sit around and torment myself watching the mainstream media tear him apart election after election. This is sicking as can be!

Seriously, what is the solution? A ten million dollar money bomb before each primary? Can we pull that off? We will need that much money to counter the free publicity the neocons and liberal freaks give other candidates, and to counter the way they attack us over and over, saying Ron Paul is unelectable.

I'm about to go nuts here. Seriously, I would hang in here but how are we going to win when the mainstream media continually manipulates the election? What is our plan? Do we have a game plan at all, other than just more of the same?

I think smoke is coming out of my ears I'm so upset.

 

[pinkmandy]

I wish the Debby Downers around here would just STFU for a while. There's not even half of the votes counted and people are crying that the sky is falling. There's DEFINITELY some posters around here that live to try to bring others down with negativity.

+ rep

 

[BSU kid]

Johnson County only 39% in, Good news for us!!!!

 

[SaulPaulinsky]

Don't be stupid. IA is 1% of the delegates.

Name for me the people that have won the GOP nomination without winning IA or NH.

Don't call people stupid just because you disagree with them. That's not what free thinking people do. That's what MSM sheep do.

 

[bluesc]

I can't handle this... drinking

I haven't stopped in the last 2 hours.