Free Republic 2016 Caucus Open Discussion Thread VIII

Free Republic ^ | 27 January 2016 | Windflier

[Windflier]

DO NOT VOTE ON THIS THREAD.

This is the nightly DISCUSSION thread for the ongoing 2016 Free Republic Caucus. Per caucus rules, no comments are allowed on the caucus thread itself - hence this open chat thread.

If you'd like to vote in the caucus, please look in the sidebar for the link, or check downthread here.

Thanks, and let 'er rip!

Windy

[txnativegop]

Cruz all the way.

[knarf]

Welll ... OK, if you want ... Trump’s in 3rd gear

[txnativegop]

Ahh, come on, put a snarl in it, not half-hearted sarcasm. LOL

[SunLakesJeff]

The "Caucus Discussion" Thread(s) serve(s) as the pressure relief valve of much of FR. We are bigger than this, but the diminution of the Forum is because of the endangerment of the very enlightened notion of Divine Liberty.

[Windflier]

...the diminution of the Forum is because of the endangerment of the very enlightened notion of Divine Liberty.

That's deep.

[SunLakesJeff]

That's deep.

I lurk the Religion Forum everyday. Politics, at least, has daily changes!

[georgiarat]

The conservative treehouse had this pegged all the way back in July. They predicted the setup of a sexist attack by Kelley at the first debate. The promotion of Cruz to splinter votes from Trump was outlined as well as the various attacks the media would use to take down most candidates.

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/07/30/nothing-unites-special-interests-like-a-common-enemy/

[Lonely Bull]

Free Republic Caucus 2016 threads

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[onyx]

GOOD to see you know where to find the CAUCUS DISCUSSION THREAD, txnativegop!!!

Thanks very much you all for participating in the CAUCUS D-1 IS AVAILING TO ALL OF US.

Unfortunately, all of you pinged FReepers, (save for D-1 and Windflier) did NOT follow D-1's simple rules.

All of you posted on that thread when in fact, that thread is specifically limited to voting and further limited to only two words: Vote name .


jaydee770's message should have been sent in FR mail and there was no need for others to reply.


I remain amazed by the number of FReepers who still can't follow D-1's simple voting rules. Every day, there's at least one, who just can't resist adding a comment ... LOL.

[P-Marlowe]

Unfortunately, all of you pinged FReepers, (save for D-1 and Windflier) did NOT follow D-1's simple rules. ,

Well excuuuuuuuuuussseee meeeeeeeee!

Obviously the posting rules are not all that simple since there were people who couldn't figure out when it is supposed to start. People were saying it hasn't started yet but then apparently it had. Is it 12:00 for everyone or 12:00 EST (9:00 PST)?

[DoughtyOne]

We all vote at the same time.

The voting starts at 12:00 11:00 10:00 09:00

EST CST MST PST

[P-Marlowe]

People were arguing about whether the votes would be counted. I think your “simple instructions” need to be simplified. There are a lot of simple minded people here. The caucus results are clear evidence of that fact.

[DoughtyOne]

My rules are there because people love to push the limits.

If I don’t put the rules there they would say, “But you never told us we can’t do that.”

I have to have some rigid rules or the thread would be unmanageable.

Not only that, I need to be able to count between 300 and 400 votes in a timely fashion.

If I let folks go wild, it would take me hours to do.

As it is, I can now tabulate in about ten minutes.

My tabulation creates four graphs, and those are almost automatic.

Then I copy them and turn them into photo.png files.

I post them to my thread and I’m good to go.

Took me about 20 minutes tonight.

That’s not too bad.

If I didn’t have the rules, it would take me four times as long, or longer.

[Vision Thing]

Well excuuuuuuuuuussseee meeeeeeeee!

Because you are a wild and crazy guy! (/obscure Steve Martin references from the 80s.)

[Vision Thing]

It’s good to see the Cruz supporters starting to come back, as indicated by the Cruz uptrend the last two days. Given some murmerings in that Consistent Conservative site of disgruntled Cruz supporters, I thought many of them would begin boycotting the FR Caucus, giving Trump some unrealistically outsized numbers here.

[DoughtyOne]

I am glad the Cruz numbers didn’t bottom out. I wanted realistic numbers.

We’re just five days away from the caucus now.

It will be interesting.

[Tax-chick]

I believe, based on the number of votes cast before I get up at 4:00 to 5:00 a.m. EST, that DoughtyOne’s caucus has a large number of West Coast votes. It will be interesting to see whether this produces results similar to votes in Iowa and New Hampshire, or very different.

[NonValueAdded]

I must say I am troubled by Trump's war on Megyn Kelly. Maybe I am missing the bigger picture.

[WVKayaker]

I must say I am troubled by Trump's war on Megyn Kelly. Maybe I am missing the bigger picture.