[Nervous Tick]

>> “If Right to Rise spent $50 million contrasting Jeb Bush and Donald Trump, this race would be very different,” said Stuart Stevens

Why yes it would, Stewie, but not in the way you’d like to imagine.

[Bobalu]

Yup, we are here to caucus for Trump... I brung a few friends along...

Hey guys! I told ya we shoulda brought foldin chairs!

When does this rucus, er I mean caucus start?

[Gaffer]

I am hoping this expected abnormal turnout of Republicans consists of BOTH Trump and Cruz supporters. I really don’t care which one wins in the end. I only want Bush, Rubio and Christie to be so inundated with neglect they slither back to their damned holes under the nearest rock.

[Signalman]

A big turnout would be favorable to Trump, from what I’ve heard and read.

[SaxxonWoods]

The excitement builds.

Heavy calling about caucus information.

Who are those people and who do they support?

[ripnbang]

A big turnout is a good thing for our republic. It means are ticked off and/or engaged. An engaged populace is good for America. Especially in making it great again....

[Red Steel]

Yeah I figured this out a long time ago. It’s going to be the biggest caucus turnout for Iowa.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

There are mounting signs these caucuses may go into the record books for turnout, at least on the Republican side. Tami Jorgensen, who works for the auditor of the predominantly conservative Warren County, told me she was astonished at how many people had called asking for the location of their precinct's caucuses.

Impossible! Steve Deace's cousin's boyfriend talked to some guy who is really well respected in Iowa and is always right about these kinds of things. He says that the turnout won't be any higher and that the polls that say Trump is ahead are wrong because they call for high turnout. He says there's a 89% chance that Cruz wins by 140 points, based on his scientific turnout models.

You know they're really good too, because he did them on a computer.

[ModelBreaker]

Big turnout means Trump wins.

[MinuteGal]

As one who has run in 11 primaries and generals for elective office during my political career (won every one of 'em) let me tell ya that a larger than normal voter turnout means "protest vote".

In this case the turnout will be protesting the same things Mr. Trump is protesting, mark my words.

Leni

[Flick Lives]

Mr. Bush has spent just two days in Iowa this month. But the “super PAC” supporting him, Right to Rise, continues to drop heavy ordnance on Senator Marco Rubio of Florida in TV ads and on Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Gov. John R. Kasich of Ohio in mailings.

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Jeb has zero chance of winning in Iowa, but obviously Mike Murphy wants to cash in on his percentage of the ad buys before Jeb flames out. Nice work if you can get it.

[Fhios]

Any predictions on caucus shenanigans? I can just imagine a caucus precinct with a capacity of say 50 and all a sudden 500 show up. Who gets to caucus? How many caucus goers will be misdirected to the wrong caucus or how many won’t meet identification standards?

What happens if one candidate zergs the caucuses?

[LS]

Rush just played a clip of Cruz saying that if Trump wins IA there is no stopping him, and he’s the only one left who can stop Trump.

This has to be a killer blow to GOPe, who on Twitter are still doing unicorn politics wondering how one of the GOPe can still win.

[DoughtyOne]