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4 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

In round two, can all the rejects get together for 15% and pick a candidate that was unviable in round 1?

I'm way too drunk to answer this confidently I am very sorry Dbeasy. 

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I'm pretty sure "yes" is the answer.

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  • Here’s the thing: I’m not jazzed about Pete or Biden or Bloomberg.  But if the various Dem factions are going to demand perfection from their candidate, then we’re going to lose again to a Republican

  • Just got done reading this entire thread.  Your hate warms my heart.  Y'all like bacon?  Then shut the fuck up and tolerate our political absurdity.

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How bad a night would it have to get for Biden’s staff to start questioning his long term viability? If he tanks in Iowa, loses NH and then looks like he is fading in SC is the writing on the wall for the big money donors to move to another candidate?

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This shit fucking rules.

White people are the best. I love us.

 

CNN just showed a precint where uncommitted just barely made viable at 15.4%.  Lulz, why?  Presumably they still have to join a viable group for the 2nd round right?

I think they can stay undecided, thus keeping delegates away from the other candidates?
5 hours ago, GSU&UT said:

Damn, drinking beer in Scotland and doing this doesn't seem so bad.

 Yeah. How do go do that? 

Looks like Pete is eating at the marrow of Biden's old white support.

8 minutes ago, WBT said:

CNN just showed a precint where uncommitted just barely made viable at 15.4%.  Lulz, why?  Presumably they still have to join a viable group for the 2nd round right?

Some bro a Grinnell explained it like this--if they can get undecideds to 15%, it allows them to give 1 delegate to each of the remaining candidates or something like that.

3 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:


I think they can stay undecided, thus keeping delegates away from the other candidates?

Ah, voting out of spite.  I can respect that.

1 minute ago, Calihorn said:

Looks like Pete is eating at the marrow of Biden's old white support.

Yep and I wonder how much that is a pattern that will keep happening nationally or is if a Midwest thing 

15 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

As a Democrat? Iowa winner has won pretty much every recent nomination. Someone named the last year they didn't earlier in the thread I think, but it was a while back. Of course, that includes some sitting Presidents and a VP, as well as what was essentially a tie in 2016, so that streak as as tenuous as one that long can be.

Thanks for clarifying. 

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They should have big scales like at the zoo and then just weigh all the candidates' supporters so you have volunteers recruiting the fattest residents and feeding their existing supporters.

Sorry this guy on CNN is fat and I'm gameplanning new avenues for democracy.

Just now, Laxtonto said:

Yep and I wonder how much that is a pattern that will keep happening nationally or is if a Midwest thing 

Might be a national thing based on SCAR polling. If Biden and Pete split the old moderate vote, Bernie has a much better chance

4 minutes ago, Calihorn said:

Looks like Pete is eating at the marrow of Biden's old white support.

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"Well, Wolf, it looks like Joe Biden only got 3,865 pounds of Iowan. Meanwhile Mayor Pete is well over 6 tons of Hawkeye."

 

MORE OF BERNIE AND WARREN IN FIRST/SECOND PLEASE

14 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Does butti have a chance. Asked for predictit. 

Yes, he’s picking up all the Biden and Klob non viable 

Feels like a parlor game played in Punxsutawney on Feb 2 and then used in Iowa to pick a nominee on Feb 3.

Got home about 30 minutes ago.  Pete and Amy split my precinct.  Attendance was up from '16.  Super white rural county on the Minnesota border, 50 miles in from Wisconsin.  We went by 20 to Obama in '12 and 20 to Trump in '16.  Biggest swing in the nation.

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Never paid attention to caucuses until today.  Boy is this shit stupid but riveting TV.

4 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Got home about 30 minutes ago.  Pete and Amy split my precinct.  Attendance was up from '16.  Super white rural county on them Minnesota border, 50 miles in from Wisconsin.  We went by 20 to Obama in '12 and 20 to Trump in '16.  Biggest swing in the nation.

As a Klobuchar supporter, I think I need to caucus with another candidate now.  If she can't clean up on the northern border, she's toast.  Not only in Iowa, but nationally.  She needed to surprise and her pathway to doing so was to kill it in the counties near Minnesota.  I honestly thought it was going to happen the way she was trending the last couple days.

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You sure? Some Iowa dude was trying to do that.

So Bernie finishes 1% behind Pete in one precinct but Pete gets two delegates and Bernie gets one. Nice math.

6 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Got home about 30 minutes ago.  Pete and Amy split my precinct.  Attendance was up from '16.  Super white rural county on them Minnesota border, 50 miles in from Wisconsin.  We went by 20 to Obama in '12 and 20 to Trump in '16.  Biggest swing in the nation.

How close was Biden and was he viable?

4 minutes ago, Old Freak Nasty said:

Never paid attention to caucuses until today.  Boy is this shit stupid but riveting TV.

 

2 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

 

 

If only Pete, Warren, and Bernie are viable in certain caucuses, that's really good news for Pete. He's crushing the 2nd choices in this particular caucus in Ankeny.  

 

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Just got done reading this entire thread.  Your hate warms my heart.  Y'all like bacon?  Then shut the fuck up and tolerate our political absurdity.

Lot of people in Cedar Rapids don’t seem to care much for Uncle Joe. 



You sure? Some Iowa dude was trying to do that.
It's my understanding that any candidate who didn't get 15% is out and no longer an option in that caucas.
1 minute ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Just got done reading this entire thread.  Your hate warms my heart.  Y'all like bacon?  Then shut the fuck up and tolerate our political absurdity.

I'm not gonna lie...I like it. It puts a face to it and seems lighthearted and communal.

Just from what I’m seeing it looks like it’s gonna be a 3 horse race between sanders, warren, and Pete. 

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23 minutes ago, Calihorn said:

Looks like Pete is eating at the marrow of Biden's old white support.

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5 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

How close was Biden and was he viable?

Biden wasn't even close to viable.  He had like 4 supporters initially. 1 bailed, 2 went Pete, the other to Klobuchar.

Nothing better than commenting on politics while drunk.

anyone outraged by the absurdity of american politics displayed in iowa has not been following an ounce of impeachment coverage.

Just got done reading this entire thread.  Your hate warms my heart.  Y'all like bacon?  Then shut the fuck up and tolerate our political absurdity.
2 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

I'm not gonna lie...I like it. It puts a face to it and seems lighthearted and communal.

I don't mind it, but my precinct is tiny and everyone knows everyone so it's civil and moves quick.  No one wants to be there all night, and even fringe candidate supporters accept their fate quickly and decisively.

Tapa won’t let me quote, but re: the coin flip... seems really stupid when I first saw it, but in this situation it’s basically the more efficient/fair version of walking outside, blindly picking a single voter (from a group of knowledgeable voters) off the street, and asking them to decide between the two candidates.

Interesting to see the out of state reporters' commentary on caucusing. Some say it's the worst, some absolutely love it. 

 

1 minute ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I don't mind it, but my precinct is tiny and everyone knows everyone so it's civil and moves quick.  No one wants to be there all night, and even fringe candidate supporters accept their fate quickly and decisively.

What about people who are at work like at restaurants or stores? They can't vote? And what if you have a young kid that needs to go to bed?

 

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