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

Less than 4000 votes from 1st place guys. Only 4000 votes! That's nothing! Cripes, I live in a small rural town of 9000. Four thousand votes is peanuts. There is NOTHING to be down about.
 
This is our long march towards victory. No one ever said it would be easy--unfortunately. We have people who want to rob us of our salaries, our savings, and our lives to enrich themselves; they will not give up power easily.
 
RevPac needs an anti-frothy commercial, but the bulk of our work needs to center on GETTING MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT PAUL CLEARED UP and, to an extent, pointing out Romney's shortcomings.
 
1% of the delegates, and this is not 2008. Ron's support only grows...our soft support is minimal. The campaign likely knows who they need to target after this, and its the older voters. We'll only get better as this progresses. We have the money, we have the motivation.

More momentum coming out of Iowa would have been nice, but if Santorum wins it could put Romney into a tailspin. Plenty of time. Again, this isn't 2008. The media used all of their ammo on us in Iowa. We're still very in this.
 
I think the Paul campaign is also a little responsible for the Santorum surge.

Stealing Sorenson from Bachmann embarrassed her and really stuck a fork in her campaign. We NEEDED Bachmann to keep dividing the vote. As soon as her Iowans realized she was all done, they went over to Santorum en masse.

Whatever they got from bringing Sorenson over could not possibly be worth what they lost by letting the fragmented vote start to coalesce around Santorum.
 
Story County just updated. It's going to Romney. 56% reporting, 27% Romney, 26% Paul.
 
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!
 
rockandrollsouls said:
1% of the delegates, and this is not 2008. Ron's support only grows...our soft support is minimal. The campaign likely knows who they need to target after this, and its the older voters. We'll only get better as this progresses. We have the money, we have the motivation.

More momentum coming out of Iowa would have been nice, but if Santorum wins it could put Romney into a tailspin. Plenty of time. Again, this isn't 2008. The media used all of their ammo on us in Iowa. We're still very in this.
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The hundreds of young volunteers who will be in NH need to be focused on seniors! We need teams going to every nursing home!
 
sailingaway said:
They could only do it because he was unvetted this close/ They will try the same with Huntsman in NH so start looking for his background. But they can't do that once Santorum is KNOWN to have taken more lobbyist money than anyone else his last year in Congress, etc. You can't unknow stuff.
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Very well said. Santorum was a MSM pushed fluke. Believe me, if it wasn't for that STUPID CNN poll that was entirely inaccurate, we would be in first place. NO ONE had a chance to expose Santorum for who he really is. There will be a chance after today. People will hear the realy story. People will hear that he was considered the most corrupt senator in 2006 and many, many, more issues.
 
I haven't managed to read all the posts but I wonder if tomorrow we'll learn more about what happened in the individual caucuses. I'm just guessing, but maybe some of the soft Perry, Bachmann and Newt support was pressured to switch to Santorum or Romney in order to keep Paul from coming out on top. That might explain why Paul underperformed his polls. Haven't really looked too deeply into the results yet. This is definitely disappointing but I don't think the campaign is over yet. We can learn from our mistakes and Ron Paul is getting a lot of great exposure tonight.
 
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You have to think of it this way- yeah Ron lost Iowa and more than likely has no chance left to win...but yet in his speech he was all smiles and enthusiastic. Why is that?

Well, lets go back to 1988. Ron thinks "you know, I think the nation is ready for a different minded candidate and the libertarian party!" ....then gets .5% of the vote. With results like that, you think the guy would be like most people in this forum and just say "**** it it's not worth it, this country is hopeless" Thank the heavens he didn't quit, though. he went back into congress and continues for another decade, then tried again for President.

What did he get that time? Well, he got ridiculed and to sum up the media coverage, "electability, do you have any?". He gained some youth voters, but still got crushed nationally. But out of this "failure", we got the tea party and Rand Paul., along with many other liberty activist.

On to 2012, the .5% crackpot libertarian gets 20+ percent in a statewide election among an atypical demographic for libertarians. The media is running scared of him, and think that they have finally stopped his movement with a loss in Iowa. Deep down, Ron knows that it doesn't matter anymore if he becomes president. Hell, I honestly think he always knew he would never win. The ball is rolling now, RP supporters are writing planks, running for office, and are making up the MAJORITY of the future vote in the GOP. Will Ron live to see a total victory of the liberty movement? Probably not. Can he retire from politics knowing that the victory is inevitable...YES.

All Ron ever wanted from politics is people to wake up to big government and tyranny, and you know, i think after 40 years he has finally got it.
 
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