I've ALWAYS thought it's pure nonsense.
All night long the nitwork pundits were falling all over themselves repeating over and over in various forms...."what you are seeing tonight is democracy in action".
When the enemedia slobbers like that I know the opposite is true, no matter the subject.
Was it democracy in action?
As a matter of democracy, if you're elderly, disabled, handicapped, whatever and can't come out to stand for hours in the icy cold and then sit on the hardwood floor inside...can you vote by absentee ballot in the "democratic" caucus system? Or is this segment of the population shut out? I didn't see any wheel chairs all night long. Does anyone know if there's absentee voting?
Then, when crowds inside are herded to stand under their respective candidates' banners, what happened to the American "secret ballot" concept? This stupidity is off-putting and can cause countless potential voters to stay home.
I'm not too optimistic I'll get an answer as most folks don't understand the whole caucus system to begin with.
Leni
The Iowa Caucus thing is a joke. It will be forgotten by the weekend.
This caucus stuff is nonsense. A coin toss? Unbelievable.
Then, when crowds inside are herded to stand under their respective candidates' banners, what happened to the American "secret ballot" concept? This stupidity is off-putting and can cause countless potential voters to stay home.
Prescient comments, minutegal.
I had forgotten how chaotic caucuses are!
No secret voting!
No chairs to sit, for a couple of hours?
No provisions for the handicapped or very old?
No wonder all it took was 7300 votes from 3,107,000
state population to declare a winner.
Only 6% of Iowans total showed up for GOP caucus.
Caucuses are a joke!
250.000 at rallies and only 50.000 of them voted makes no sense. Same scenario with Mitt Romney. There is NO way he lost the election. Same with Allen West and others. Computer counting is a disaster and will always be!
Last week a ‘Nerd” hacked into our bank account and lifted up $500.00+ to pay utility bills in California!!
Voter frauds has been proven over and over again and is a FIX in the making!!!
IIRC Romney did NOT get a single vote in some county in Pennsylvania, NOT one vote, hello, not possible ???