Posted on 01/28/2020 3:26:14 PM PST by Libloather
Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) left a mock caucus at Iowa’s Drake University in protest after Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) won and Sanders failed to meet the event’s “viability threshold.”
With voting in Iowa’s statewide caucuses just a week away, colleges held simulations of the events across the state Monday night. NBC News campaign embed Ben Pu covered the Drake University mock caucus, and reported that after the first round, only Warren and former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg exceeded the 15 percent viability threshold.
“!!! Only Buttigieg and Warren are viable. Supporters are being peeled away from the other groups,” Pu wrote.
**SNIP**
Pu reported that the Sanders group failed at gaining additional supporters on the second round, and rather than realign with another candidate, they went home.
“In a possible sign of things to come, the Sanders corner, despite previously being labeled unviable, has not budged,” Pu wrote. “Three Yang supporters realigned to ‘Tom Steyer’s daughter’ (she advocated for Steyer tonight). Now in protest, the Sanders people are just straight up going home.”
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Somewhere Hillary is sitting in a wheelchair, stroking a bald cat...
... NBC News campaign embed Ben Pu ...
Thank you Lord for naming me Oldeconomybuyer and not Ben Pu.
This could be a factor on caucus night. If candidates don’t achieve the minimum threshold, then the 2nd choice of supporters would become very important.
Sore loser Bernie... taking his hammer & sickel and heading to New Hampshire!
A Ms. Bigglesworth
They held “simulations of the events” in a mock caucus?
How do you simulate “I’ll give you free stuff!” in a mock caucus?
“No, I’ll give you LOTS more free stuff!”
“I’ll send the deplorables away in box cars.”
“Ha! I’ll send the deplorables AND their children and parents away in box cars!”
“Everybody gets free health care.”
“That’s nothing. In MY plan, everybody gets free health care and a free house!”
“Bah! Nobody can get along with only one house. Everybody needs a second free house on the lake!”
So, for them, it’s Burnie or nobody, and they’ll not move their support to another candidate if Burn is unviable.
Hope that’s true for all Burners, and that it equates to them not voting for another in November.
If he’s an Independent then by definition he isn’t a member of the Democrat Pratt Party and he can wee wee off
I’m still calling it since the beginning. Warren. She’s an idiot and easy to destroy in the debates with PDJT.
Well, if he’s not viable then it’s okay to abort him.
Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) left a mock caucus at Iowa’s Drake University in protest after Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) won and Sanders failed to meet the event’s “viability threshold.”
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Fake Indian wins mock caucus.
“Somewhere Hillary is sitting in a wheelchair, stroking a bald cat...”
Still covered in her own dried vomit from being passed out on the kitchen floor, clutching a box gallon of cheap New Zealand Chardonnay. The SS detail usually cleans her up in the mornings, with a fire hose, but they had low water pressure this morning.
Heh.
Pikers!..they should have gone for Hunter Biden!
LOL
I think sanders does well on what counts, primary night.
Three Yang supporters realigned to ‘Tom Steyer’s daughter’ (she advocated for Steyer tonight). <<<
Pikers!..they should have gone for Hunter Biden!
I suspect they were three guys each angling for a date and more.
They better get used to it, because the fix against Bernie is going to be in with the real life nomination.
this “mock caucus” was a total mockery anyway, since the RCP poll average for Iowa has:
bernie: 25%
bidn: 22%
buttie: 17%
liawatha: 13.5%
and pretty much the same thing in New Hampshire:
bernie: 24%
bidn: 16%
buttie: 15%
liawatha: 13%
looks like the Dems have a BIG BERNIE PROBLEM!
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