[Paddy Irish]

I'm a life long Iowan and I know the state well. The Democrats were using college kids to change registration at the caucus sites to vote for Rubio. I'm looking at a map of results and it makes no sense that Trump wins Pottawatomie County and loses Scott County. Cruz wins Linn Couny and Trump is 3rd, makes little sense. There are very few evangelicals in Linn County, but there are thousands of college students that grew up in Cedar Rapids and go to school in Iowa City. The same can be said for Davenport. Dallas County went for Rubio, but it's very much a high end suburb full of mega-church people. Trump wins Sioux City and Dubuque and Council Bluffs because they don't send their kids to Iowa or Iowa State. It's brilliant if you think of it. They do not want to face Trump because he's Trump. They don't want to face Cruz because he has an IQ of 150. But Rubio? He can be beat. Do you remember the name of the Congressman Hillary beat to become a Senator? Richard Lazio. A short, young, good looking Italian. What was Rubio's appeal to Iowans? It makes no sense. There is a county in the NW part of the state, Dickinson County. By my calculations is the most like the rest of the county. This Rubio crap is not believable. Cruz orginazed his arse off, but Rubio stood around and combed his hair. The Democrats are praying for Rubio.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

They broke for the best polling RINO. Pretty poor when you think about the RINOs consciously voting just over 20% for one guy. Jeb, Christie didn’t poll enough to spoil.

[napscoordinator]

I can’t imagine Democrats doing that with their very close primary. Plus Rubio is the only one that beats Hillary and Bernie. The rest lose. Now that may change but the debate is what helped Rubio.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

If you're right then Rubio will not do so well in NH unless Iowas creates a bandwagon effect for him.

I don't see why Hillary would want to go up against Rubio, though. To her mind Trump or Cruz would be easier to paints as extremists that are too radical for America.

Also I don't see Democrats moving to register Republican when the Democrat caucus was so close. You'ld think they would be desperate to keep as many voters as possible to either vote Hillary or vote Sanders.

[TigerClaws]

The Dems want Rubio because they win either way. They get Hillary or they get a pro-amnesty Republican that’ll legalize 10s of millions of new voters, 67% of whom voted for Obama last time out.

We will never win another national race if Scamnesty passes. It’s an existential threat to the Republic. Forget Republican party, to the Republic itself as they’ll accelerate open borders and bring in tens of millions more from around the world. We will be living in a 3rd world hellhole.

Were these college kids Sanders supporters? They could have easily won the election by supporting their guy? Why give that up to back Rubio?

Does make sense that Democrats would do this though.

[glock rocks]

Gang of eight.

[Jane Long]

How Rubio Did So Well....

M-I-C-R-O-S-O-F-T

;-)

[BlueDragon]

Thanks for the info.

[kvanbrunt2]

thx i tried to figure that out but you all have counties that are squares makes that hard for a nor ester to figure out where the cities are by a county analysis. operation chaos i’m voting for bernie.

[EternalVigilance]

Rubio performed as well as he did because of the slew of ads he ran late in the process, and the wall to wall coverage the media gave him for free.

If you notice, the counties he won were in the main media centers.

[Rational Thought]

Good post.

Certain counties and age demographics just didn’t make sense.

What I’ve been looking for is an actual number of crossover voters.

[Bigg Red]

Your headline and your link do not match.

[Seattle Conservative]

Thanks for the recap of Iowa.

If you haven’t seen it, post #817 also has a review of Iowa counties:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3391727/posts?page=817#817