Does Teddy Cruz exist?
We are in a sort of quantum mechanical superposition of states. Ted Cruz is both the winner and the loser at the same time. Come Monday night there will be spontaneous symmetry breaking, and we will know which one is the real thing.
Didn’t they bus in a ton of Obama supporters in 2008? I had heard they don’t check ID all that well at the caucuses.
Trump and Sanders will win. People are ticked. Both will win IA by about 10%
You’d better hope his rallies aren’t indicative of his voter turnout.
The Daily Beast. So reliable.
Does Glenn Beck live in a bizzaro universe inside his mind?
The media narrative backtracks away from Trump as the moment of truth draws near.
Foolish writer.
Republicans are of the same count.
The difference isn’t quantity, it is the same people who are going to show up but this time fully reject the establishment uniparty.
I vote; therefore, I am.
good lord man, you’re so far down in the bottom of the anti-Trump barrel you’re posting ridiculous hit pieces from the Daily Beast now?
still, i’ll have to say that i admire the ostrich-head-in-the-sand approach by the Daily Beast: close eyes, cover ears, and go “la-la-la-la-la-la-la” REALLY loudly. it sorta worked when we were kids, so it ought to sorta work now, hey?
Isn’t the Daily Beast where all the liberal hack writers go to die?
Sign up on your way in the door.
The biggest myth ever is Iowa matters.
((((snort)))
They glossed over one very important detail: you can register to vote the same day as the caucus. So, if an Iowa resident were so inclined, they could register to vote at the caucus.
re: number of registered voters has decreased
That answers the question I’ve been asking. The alleged great Cruz ground game hasn’t increased the number? Not such a great ground game, I guess. But still, he has an edge with the previously registered.
And Trump, whose supporters are often not registered? They didn’t register and increase the voter rolls? What were they thinking?
The Iowa Caucuses are an overblown circus.
A minority that is, 46%, want Trump.
At least, the ones who participated when it was still relatively tolerable to do so if you also happened to do something silly, like perceive and share the idea that Trump's "brand" of "brilliant business mind" (the thing his supporters are supposedly voting for, in essence) is BS -- he's third-rate with the real big boys at the same RE mogul game who are worth as much as four times what the Great Donald is.
Trump is the ONLY one among them who deliberately made himself a celebrity everyone recognizes. That's all. FReepers are smart, there's a reason they come here -- a majority of them at best would have Trump as their second choice, a good number put him out of the question.
Yet I would bet hard, cold cash that lurker who came to this site just to see what's up at FR, take a pulse, get the tone -- would read through a couple of threads and assume that Trump is wildly popular with the majority of conservatives and conservatives who reject him are so few that they don't even show up.
But the reality is ... the Trumpers are the minority, about 46%.
I moved three names from the non-Trump tally to the Trump tally because although these FReepers declare they prefer Cruz, the tone of their posts sure sounds the opposite. The tally is to find truth, not to advance an agenda. I want to know what real people are actually thinking, so I put them on the tally that I bet a casual reader would, as well.
Such a tally is pointless now because the golden goose slayer Donald Trump has destroyed FR, it appears to me. Romney almost finished it off in 2012, I suppose ... I don't know, but I bet everyone here was stunned when Romney lost -- no wonder they're so angry. They assumed that the people they had made this place a turn-off for, didn't exist. But they did, and they did what they said they'd do right here -- screw voting for a leftist, I don't care what party he's in.
They warned anyone paying attention going up to the election, and the same types are sounding warnings now, and it's just the primary. Trump will be in the race regardless because he'll run third party if he doesn't get the nomination.
Man. And I thought it couldn't get any worse than Romney.