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

[New York For Paul]

Not giving up, but we need to win somewhere if you expect to win.

 

[mmadness]

Not giving up, but we need to win somewhere if you expect to win.

I strongly suspect we are winning the delegates at the precinct level, which will lead to winning the delegates at the state level. That is what counts, not some meaningless unbinding straw/popular vote.

 

[libertygrl]

I was too nervous to watch last night. So I went to sleep and just woke up. Immediately turned to CNN and saw the news. Really disappointing. Is it me, but do all thecable pundits actually look happy reporting of a Romney win??? They all had smiles on their faces. Hate the facist media!

 

[jersdream]

I strongly suspect we are winning the delegates at the precinct level, which will lead to winning the delegates at the state level. That is what counts, not some meaningless unbinding straw/popular vote.

This is exactly what was said in 2008, and what did we end up with 7 delegates all together?

 

[Svenskar_för_Ron_Paul]

So does Santorum have the big Mo' right now or what?

I believe that when Bach and Perry bails, their voters vill look at Santorum and in the end will we have a long lasting ''top tier'' With Romney, Anti-Romney Santorum, and The funny little grandpa Ron Paul.

 

[AngryCanadian]

I was too nervous to watch last night. So I went to sleep and just woke up. Immediately turned to CNN and saw the news. Really disappointing. Is it me, but do all thecable pundits actually look happy reporting of a Romney win??? They all had smiles on their faces. Hate the facist media!

CNN really want an Romney Vs Obama, dont forget CNN is Carrying the waters for the clintions and Obamas.

 

[Liberty Shark]

Well if you want to put things in a positive perspective, at least Santorum is likely to be the one getting "vetted" by the media and other candidates.

The media will probably ignore Dr. Paul for a while, but maybe that is better than the non-stop smear attacks of the last 2 weeks? I'm not really sure at this point?

It almost sounded like possibly Perry was going to maybe end his campaign? Or "reassess" his candidacy? He had raised a lot of money I thought. Although I worry that now the big donors may move to another non-Romney person.

 

[mmadness]

This is exactly what was said in 2008, and what did we end up with 7 delegates all together?

Yeah, and how did McCain finish in 2008? And how did we do in Iowa back then vs. now?

We had delegates at the Nevada and Louisiana conventions but by then we had a presumptive nominee and were railroaded. We have more numbers this time and we are prepared.

No debbie downers in RPF!

 

[jbuttell]

Santorum is nothing more than an oilslick that Romney just spewed out the back of his car. They're using Santorum just to buffer Romney's lead. Santorum is truly unelectable, just like Huckabee was. It's as clear as day to me now, just like it was back in 2008.

Ron Paul needs to go for the jugular and NAIL Romney to the wall and call him out for the statist, elitist that he is. Ron can do it, but he needs to adjust his delivery - and soon. No more "Oh mitts more diplomatic than the others" NO MORE. NO MORE.

CALL HIM OUT, NO MORE PRAISE, EVER.

 

[Liberty Shark]

The problem with focusing on Romney is that he is only getting about 25% in many states. I'm not so sure if the best strategy is to go after Romney. I think the dynamics of the race, at least currently, are that the candidates are trying to establish themselves as the alternative to Romney. Romney is kind of stuck in the quicksand with his 25%, so he isn't really a strong frontrunner. Roughly 75% of the GOP doesn't seem to nominate Romney.
I think best strategy is to go after Santorum and Gingrich. Sure, I wouldn't go out of my way to compliment Romney, but I just don't see the point in going after Romney, who doesn't really have supporters who are likely to go for Dr. Paul anyways. Maybe I'm wrong?

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Help Ron Paul!

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[ItsTime]

http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-paul-winner-iowa-caucuses-strategy-201201

 

[Amognis]

I'm really pissed off and disappointed at these results.. We really needed first place or at the very least a bunched up 3 man tie even if we were third. But instead we got 21%, pretty much exactly what we were polling at! We got no damn higher than we polled unlike Santorum who blew it out of the water from where he was in the polls. Iowa really let us down, the students really let us down and didn't turn out like they should have, Democrats didn't cross over etc.. I'm so angry that I've spent this much energy into this primary and then Iowa drops the ball for us like this.. I'm usually just a lurker on here and the daily paul but needed to vent my frustrations.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

I hear you, but we are truly in a great position to keep gaining ground thanks to the Iowa people.

 

[Amognis]

I'll still be supporting Paul for the long haul of course as I did in 2008. Atleast it was Santorum and not Gingrich.. It still will probably come down to Romney vs Paul.. Santorum has no money or organization anywhere to speak of.

 

[randomname]

Rand looked extremely pissed off during Ron's post caucus speech, any guesses as to why?

 

[moostraks]

Rand looked extremely pissed off during Ron's post caucus speech, any guesses as to why?

I thought so as well...

 

[A. Havnes]

I'm really pissed off and disappointed at these results.. We really needed first place or at the very least a bunched up 3 man tie even if we were third. But instead we got 21%, pretty much exactly what we were polling at! We got no damn higher than we polled unlike Santorum who blew it out of the water from where he was in the polls. Iowa really let us down, the students really let us down and didn't turn out like they should have, Democrats didn't cross over etc.. I'm so angry that I've spent this much energy into this primary and then Iowa drops the ball for us like this.. I'm usually just a lurker on here and the daily paul but needed to vent my frustrations.

Voter fraud, or very, very good media manipulation?

 

[UtahApocalypse]

how are they declaring a winner with 8 votes between 1st and 2nd and not EVERY vote counted? it still shows 99.5%

 

[Matthew5]

It's a caucus system people, vote totals don't really matter. What we have is a three way tie for first at 7 delegates a piece. We should be celebrating! We won Iowa*!




*just have to share that trophy