So it's a tie. We'll take it. When you consider the negative comments about Ron in the media outnumbered positive by at least 10 to 1, it is an amazing finish. When you can tie the establishment candidates with all of conservative radio and TV against you, it says the message is incredibly strong. If the msm were even just fair, we would have won by 10 points.
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So it's a tie. We'll take it. When you consider the negative comments about Ron in the media outnumbered positive by at least 10 to 1, it is an amazing finish. When you can tie the establishment candidates with all of conservative radio and TV against you, it says the message is incredibly strong. If the msm were even just fair, we would have won by 10 points.
It may be because Roemer's votes aren't showing.hmm RP has 21.5 now but it's not rounded to 22% on cnn, but Santorum's 24.5 is rounded to 25
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Oh my... I'm not sure how I didn't ever realize this before, it just never clicked in my mind. His name is Richard "Rick" J. Santorum. So that means his name is "Dick Santorum". The definition of "Santorum" and that name, well that's just to funny. 
I think I mostly agree. It's not something that worries me, but I think I would've preferred a win, just because that's what we're working to do. If we could learn what we did wrong and what we did right, and try something new, if everything could be firing on all cylinders, we could've done better.
Are we ever going to find anything out about what happened? We did finally end up winning Story county (Iowa State). These maps don't tell much of a story that makes any sense to me. If college students are dissipated, you might not be able to see them on a map. Will there be a precinct by precinct map?
Is there any information at all about anything that we can think about?
Gingrich's worst South Carolina poll has him at 31%
Santorum's best South Carolina poll has him at 4%
If Gingrich was in Santorum's spot in Iowa, I doubt Gingrich would lose too many votes based on that performance.
But Gingrich was about half of Santorum in Iowa. Gingrich certainly will lose votes to Santorum. If a poll of South Carolina was taken on Monday, it would've shown him below 31%, and his numbers will continue to fall. Many of his supporters will feel he is no longer a viable candidate. Santorum and Gingrich and everybody not named Paul or Romney will seem like regional candidates after New Hampshire. Hopefully in this process, Paul picks up some votes in South Carolina. He's ahead of Santorum and behind Romney and Gingrich. We'll have to start beating Romney somewhere. But you could have a near 4 way tie - Romney, Paul, Gingrich, Santorum - in South Carolina.
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hmm RP has 21.5 now but it's not rounded to 22% on cnn, but Santorum's 24.5 is rounded to 25
Those aren't exact. Right now it's at, 24.54% - 24.53% - 21.46%, with like 99.9% reporting.
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So, third place with over 21% of the vote; and not a distant third place either, but about 3% behind the leader.
We would have killed for that in January 2008.
People vote. Not enough people who like Ron Paul voted. Ron Paul got 26K votes. There are 3 Million people in Iowa. We got the votes of 1% of the people. If we got the votes of 2% of the people, we would have won. There are more Iowa Hawkeyes than votes we got. There are more Iowa State Cyclones than votes we got.
By the way, for those of you who are looking for "fraud"
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2012/iowa-caucus-jan-3 - palo alto - fox
Why do we now have 53 votes in Palo Alto, when we had 72?
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I think Bachmann's self destruction is even more amazing than the "Santorum Slush". She won the straw pole then as soon as she tried to attack Ron Paul on foreign policy she started to sink like a rock. The same thing happened to Rudy in 2008 when he challenged the Doctor on 9/11 and foreign policy. Looks like Romney learned something from all that because he never confronts Ron Paul on that issue (not that I can remember).
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Keokuk 100% in, RP behind Santorum 15 votes.
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Interesting... Faux's numbers round Ron Paul to 22%
Is this anything?
In the words of Letterman: "Is this anything?"
http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-...utton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics
In the words of Letterman: "Is this anything?"
http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-...utton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics
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No, that would be Clinton, we are ~60 behind Mittens. One precinct left to count.
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That was weird. The total vote count just dropped from 122,001 to 121,964. I'm not claiming any shenanigans it was just weird.
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/IA-R
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/IA-R
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Ridiculous it takes this long in a small state.
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Uh no we're not. Santorum is ~60 behind Romney. We're in a clear 3rd place in that county.
That happened earlier. During Santeria's speech they had 99 pct reporting with him ahead by five, then they went back to 98 for 10 minutes.
Seriously though, what's the deal with this? http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-...utton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics
Seriously though, what's the deal with this? http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-...utton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics
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According to this we lost Story county: http://iowacaucus.com/results/
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