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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
No caucus should count for anything more than a straw poll.

It doesn't even represent the voters in the state, much less the nation. Iowa can switch to a real primary or be left out.

13 posted on 12/20/2011 6:35:45 AM PST by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Beagle8U

Straw Polls are garbage politics for sure, but the MSM takes them to manipulate their enemies (That be us.)

They are legitimizing these lies as big news. The same way they launched a completely incompetent candidate like Cain to the top over night. They seem to take great pride in the power they have over the ignorant American Public.


15 posted on 12/20/2011 6:42:18 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: Beagle8U
“It doesn't even represent the voters in the state, much less the nation. Iowa can switch to a real primary or be left out.”

That's just silly. Our process is no different than anywhere else. Party members go and vote for their top candidates in a caucus or primary; and convention delegates are selected as a result.

I would assume one could change their party affiliation anywhere; it's probably just a matter of how much time is needed.

24 posted on 12/20/2011 6:48:30 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
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To: Beagle8U

Your contention is USED OATS. Caucuses are far more Thant “straw polls”. Comments. like yours are born of ignorance of the process. The farce in primaries is states that allow open primaries, which are far closer to straw polls than a caucus ever coul be.


26 posted on 12/20/2011 6:50:32 AM PST by Keith in Iowa (No Mit Sherlock. No Mit, not now, not ever. | FR Class of 1998 |)
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