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

[axiomata]

For Paul, a Santorum Iowa win will be better.

 

[cdc482]

I hope Santorum gets 2nd.

The media says Romney lost already anyway.

Fuck him.

Why was he propped up? Well, it might be cause Ron Paul was leading among social conservatives and evangelicals before his "surge."

 

[Okie RP fan]

The campaign MUST put out a foreign policy ad.

 

[ONUV]

We should've hit Santorum much earlier.

he was polling in the single digits less than 3 weeks ago? we were all blindsided by the media/Republican elite manipulated surge.

 

[Back In Black]

I bet much of this shit had to with Ricky's religion.

 

[sailingaway]

This teaches me that we need to step up our focus on building other coalitions. Having young support is extremely nice, but they simply don't come out to vote as much as the older folks do. I think Ron and the campaign need to focus on selling the plans Ron has for preserving entitlement spending. As much as it will be a bitter pill for a lot of conservatives here to swallow, the old strategies clearly aren't propelling us to victory. I don't want to sound all doom and gloom here, but we need to reevaluate our strategies.

when school is in session they will come out more

 

[Akus]

I almost wonder if anyone switched votes after getting 453865934659348 calls from PFH today??

meh, i'm sure that 453865934659347th call just convinced them to vote for Paul even more....

seriously though, we could have gotten more votes if people got their crap together and didn't harass ppl

 

[moonshine5757]

Santorum dead in the water after this? God you guys need to face reality. This chump just won Iowa, he is now gonna move into second in NH and maybe RP gets a third place in NH. That isn't good enough because RP will get shredded in South Carolina and Florida. This is uber bad.

 

[sailingaway]

This teaches me that we need to step up our focus on building other coalitions. Having young support is extremely nice, but they simply don't come out to vote as much as the older folks do. I think Ron and the campaign need to focus on selling the plans Ron has for preserving entitlement spending. As much as it will be a bitter pill for a lot of conservatives here to swallow, the old strategies clearly aren't propelling us to victory. I don't want to sound all doom and gloom here, but we need to reevaluate our strategies.

when school is in session they will come out more

 

[ShowMeLiberty]

Then tell me the plan for how we win, and exactly how we guarantee it 100%?

There is no such thing. If you want guarantees get out of politics.

I seriously want to know. We have to start winning states. I believe there must be a way to do it, but how? Do we need more money? Do we need giant publicity stunts to expose the mainstream media?

More of what we've been doing already. Great ads, phone calls, mailings, boots on the ground, talk to people you know, talk to people on the internet. Nothing wrong with what we're doing already. Iowa likes the preacher types best, that's all.

 

[UtahApocalypse]

we failed.

 

[bluesc]

Whats the difference in delegates between 25% of the vote and 22%???


Come on people, calm down

This wasn't about delegates and everyone knows it.

 

[QWDC]

Well, very good and very bad things.

1. Mitt Romney will now cruise to the nomination. (Let's be honest Iowa NH Florida Nevada...)
2. Ron Paul has done more more the libertarian movement in the last 4 years than any other liberty minded person, group, or organization, combined in the past 40 years.
3. The media can still lie/make stuff up to control the population.
4. Young voters DO NOT TURN UP.
5. That being said, these young Paul supporters will eventually turn older, and maybe in the future they will actually turn out/campaign for whatever liberty candidate is running.

 

[SonofThunder]

Santorum does nothing but throw hissy fits in debates, hate gays, and hate muslims. And this is the winner of Iowa. We're fucked.

 

[J_White]

MSM wins !

 

[Drivingrain]

STORY COUNTY IS GETTING COUNTED!!!!

Cool, all we need is a 94/1/1/1/1/1/1 split and we're caught up.

 

[Justinfrom1776]

Look at how far we've come since 08'.. We're on our way.. Keep working, keep fighting.. I'll never give up!

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

You guys who are whining you need to suck it up and act like a man (or woman). 3rd is not what we wanted, but it's not so bad. We will have to double our efforts. I know that I will double my time on the phones and I'm sure many more will too. For all you whiners, where you gonna go, huh? Who else you going to support? Can you find another person like Dr. Paul out there anywhere????

Pick yourselves up and get to work !!!

 

[RickyJ]

STOP SAYING THIS IS RIGGED WITH NO EVIDENCE! It makes us look like crazy conspiracy theorists and will not help us in future states.

That's why people needed to be there to record evidence. The campaign said don't come, they had it covered. I sure hope they did!

 

[sailingaway]

Santorum dead in the water after this? God you guys need to face reality. This chump just won Iowa, he is now gonna move into second in NH and maybe RP gets a third place in NH. That isn't good enough because RP will get shredded in South Carolina and Florida. This is uber bad.

I think Santorum doesn't fare well in NH. Too much lobbyist money and too divisive. I could be wrong. I couldn't explain Gingrich there, for certain.