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

[virginiakid]

Maybe some of you will learn not to rely on youth and progressives to win a Republican primary with a religious voting block.

I said over a month ago to get the OLD PEOPLE.

Learn from the mistake...

How true that is, the bad thing about young people is that they are not dependable at the same time they can cause great enthusiasm. They would be great in an general election, but forget about caucuses, etc...

 

[AlexG]

Seriously? The media has found their new golden boy and their gonna sell this santorum bull hockey til the cows come home. Iowa ate it up like rice chex.

Where have you been for the past year? Santorum is the flavor of the week, catch up on the pattern

 

[daviddee]

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[Chieppa1]

Listen. Ron is smiling. Ron is happy. Ron is pumped. I'm pumped. That's all that matters. Its the MESSAGE. Elections don't change the world.

 

[milo10]

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.

May need to start evaluating a lot of things. Do you think that Santorum had any significant Phone from Home program? No way. Thousands if not tens of thousands of activist hours were spent on the phone lines, and it may not have meant all that much. These forums were constantly trolled with a "don't bother, you should Phone From Home instead" every time somebody brought up a new idea.

 

[szczebrzeszyn]

Romney leading Story Country

 

[Cortes]

Romney got beat up bad, weaker in a lot of places than he was 4 years ago. Paul more than doubled his support. Santorum has no money and no national campaign infrastructure. Great all the way around.

+1

For me, it isn't "mindless optimism"

It's INFORMED OPTIMISM

 

[Kords21]

Dr. Paul's ability to stay postive through all the negative crap that's gone is otherworldy. A true hero in every sense of the word.

 

[Nate-ForLiberty]

Rand Paul looks pissed.

 

[Jtorsella]

This is gonna hurt. The campaign expected 1st.

It seems obvious that they did. Something with the ground org must've gone wrong. Or they underestimated the msm. Ohhhhh geez wow. I cant believe this happened.

 

[ONUV]

Iowa is full of theocrats. First Huckabee, now Frothy.

 

[sirachman]

removed

 

[nano1895]

Don't pay attention to the polls anymore, just listen to Paul's speech.

 

[bunklocoempire]

So, the Santorum surge worked to throw Paul off in Iowa. How do you prevent them from doing the same with Huntsman in New Hampshire?

Can't prevent the MSM from doing anything. We can amaze and sway the fence sitters we know with our predictions -face it, WE can anticipate TPTB.

Keep on educating the masses. Keep on keeping on.

(bunkloco formally of Maplewood, 7th St., Arcade & Payne Ave. etc.)

 

[craezie]

Pretty darn close. We'll get em. within MOE of getting first.

There is no MOE in elections.

 

[nyrgoal99]

Rand looks pissed

Agreed

 

[hammy]

I hope Obama wins. I sincerely hope he gets another four years then starts a revolt. First place I'm going to is Fox Headquarters.

 

[ronpaulfollower999]

He dropped his bid anyway and is 100% for Ron now.

I thought he changed to the Libertarian Party.

 

[SlowSki]

Rand does not look happy...

 

[sailingaway]

Guys, there are a lot of people who want anything less than first to drain our enthusiasm. That woman who interviewed Ron on Sunday was smirking about how demoralized we'd be if Ron didn't get first. I am certain not all of this negativity is in good faith but with so many people on this website at once I can't clean the thread. Just buck up. We did great and Ron did great with everything thrown at him. We are definitely in the top tier.