Iowa Caucuses After-Action Report (largest caucus in the state)

xjcsa | January 3, 2008 | xjcsa

[Route66]

Fred is the second choice for most of them; if the caucuses were still a few weeks away Huck would probably lose a fair number of votes to Thompson. These are the folks Fred needs. Just a few of them. Yep. I should also note that the Huckabee people tend to despise Romney; they *really* don't like him at all. But they like Thompson.

Thanks for the report. I think you are right about the timing in relation to how the votes lined up. Even one more week might have made a huge difference., but these primary/caucus schedules just keep moving forward.

Still, that fact is really quite encouraging. Huckabee's national numbers have fallen greatly and will continue to fall in the weeks ahead. Most of that support won't flow to Romney. It's good news overall.

Thanks again for supporting Fred and for taking the time to report back to us.

[rightinthemiddle]

Yup. Global warming, gun control and...illegal immigration.

Fred needs to talk about his values as well. I heard him on Mark Levin Wednesday night...Levin asked him direct questions about abortion and gay marriage. Fred is opposed to both, clearly and firmly.

A lot of these people wonder why there are no prayers at high school graduations any more. They’ve had their religion assaulted in the schools, the government, the media and the entertainment world...from elitist Republicans and Democrats alike.

Huckabee was a simple breath of fresh air.

[bruinbirdman]

Fred comes in third and Grendel von Sesspool on Fox only talks about how McStainontheParty made the big comeback.

yitbos

[rightinthemiddle]

Good observations.

[rightinthemiddle]

Always good to hear from you, NVA.

[Don Joe]

My guess is these are good people starved for a real Christian to support. They don’t know much about the issues, just that Huckabee is a Southern Baptist preacher and that’s good enough for them.
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However, I think Huckabee, intentionally or not, is using faith in much the same way Jimmy Carter did. Heck, I voted for him when I was 18. He turned out to be a liberal, socialist wackjob.

He's Jimmy Carter the Second.

God have mercy...

Way Back Then, I had a good friend, who was a diehard Carterbot. In exasperation -- reason having failed -- I blurted out that he sounded like a typical Christian Carter- (I forget the suffix).

He snapped right back at me that I sounded like a typical Christian Reagan-(same-suffix).

Argh.

We both ended up regretting the outcome -- he, because he'd been fooled, and me, because the whole country got screwed by that slimy piece of work Carter, who still plays the "holy man" card. Abolutely revolting.

As I close in on sixty years of age, I am beginning to understand why God was always griping about stuff that usually began with, "My people are..."

Some day they'll put the a picture of "the evangelical movement" next to the definition of, "Like sheep to the slaughter."

Frankly, the whole thing about being scorned for being "negative" and "cynical" (with the occasional "of little faith" tossed in for good measure) has worn really thin.

I will NOT vote for someone who will be bad for this country simply because he bears a "C" by his name. And I was a Southern Baptist Sunday School teacher!

I've earned my "C"-Man-Card -- Raised a secular "Noo Yawk" Jew. Was a radical leftist hippie freak back in the '60s. Knew Abbie Hoffman and the rest of that crowd. Became a Christian almost 40 years ago. Baptized in a then-famous AOG church in NYC. Did volunteer work at a Teen Challenge coffeehouse (the things I've seen would curl your hair, and make "The Exorcist" seem like a very tame Disney movie). Was a travelling minister. Spoke at conferences (mainstream stuff, i.e., FGBMFI affairs and so forth), TV interviews, even started a church.

But, I maxxed-out on "Churchianity" about twenty years ago, and haven't attended since then.

The evangelical/charismatic church has become a severely commercialized pop-culture parody of the "polyester christian" -- and, I'm sorry, but I just do NOT fit into that "culture"!

Sometimes I wish the Amish had "open enrollment period" days.

Obama Hussein Barack, or Mike Jimmy Carter Huckabee. That's some catch, that Catch 22.

Aaaarrrrrrggggghhhh......!!!!!

[Aristotelian]

They're informed on abortion and gay marriage; they consider everything else kind of secondary until you explain just what a nanny-stater Huckabee is, and they still stay with him, usually. They support him because he's strongly pro-life, and because he's an evangelical like them. It really is identity politics like Rush says; they identify with him and don't care that he's basically a pro-life John Edwards.

Very insightful and informative. Thanks. It makes me think Iowa and the Huckster may be a one-time deal -- that he can't expect evangelicals to dominate the polls like this anywhere else.

[TalonDJ]

Well, at least we know there are 9 conservatives in Iowa.

Hunter was pretty much none existent at my own caucus. I think he got one vote from the three precincts that were there. (I forget, I posted the results on another thread). No one stood up to speak on his behalf and he was the ONLY candidate that no one spoke for. I don't watch TV but I have not heard any ads for him on the radio at all. If not for Freerepublic I would never have heard of him. I felt bad when no one stood to speak for him. I was tempted to do it myself but I figured it could only take votes from Fred. It is a shame really but he has had no presence in Iowa.