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Keep in mind: Many Iowans won’t decide until today whom to vote for
The Washington Post ^ | February 1, 2016 | Philip Bump

Posted on 02/01/2016 6:39:14 AM PST by Biggirl

A week before Iowans met to caucus in 2012, polling suggested a slight lead for Ron Paul over Mitt Romney in the state. Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, who had been all over the state talking to voters, was in the single digits.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: 2016election; caucus; iowa; paul; santorum; trump
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To: dartuser
Which is why they never pick the eventual winner.

...except for the last two Presidents who will have been in office for a total of 16 years.

21 posted on 02/01/2016 7:04:57 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Sacajaweau

I am keeping a close on Iowa because that will help me decide once and for all in regards to either Trump or Cruz.


22 posted on 02/01/2016 7:06:21 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: MNJohnnie

I doubt it.

but watching the trumpettes melt down would be fun.


23 posted on 02/01/2016 7:07:12 AM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: dforest

That’s what is going on.


24 posted on 02/01/2016 7:07:22 AM PST by uncitizen (TRUMP THE SYSTEM)
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To: anton

Iowa is having a primary?

since when?


25 posted on 02/01/2016 7:08:12 AM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: Biggirl

Following the heard and not your heart?


26 posted on 02/01/2016 7:08:58 AM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: Biggirl

It would probably be closer to the truth to say several Iowa voters will decide today who to vote for...My guess is that 80-85% have already made up their minds...


27 posted on 02/01/2016 7:09:38 AM PST by JBW1949
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To: King Hawk

Will they let her still run from Leavenworth????


28 posted on 02/01/2016 7:09:38 AM PST by JBW1949
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To: jjotto

I meant the Pub side ...


29 posted on 02/01/2016 7:10:38 AM PST by dartuser
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To: Biggirl

Remember, this is very early for hasty commitments. A lot of caucus attendees are thinking about what message to send to the DC elites instead of just trying to pick a winning candidate.


30 posted on 02/01/2016 7:10:50 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Biggirl

Iowa is always like this


31 posted on 02/01/2016 7:12:30 AM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: Biggirl

I doubt that is the case. I believe they enjoy all of the attention. If they are really that inept about knowing their stand on the various political issues, maybe they shouldn’t be voting.


32 posted on 02/01/2016 7:14:43 AM PST by beethoven
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To: Biggirl

“I haven’t decided” = None of your business.


33 posted on 02/01/2016 7:17:29 AM PST by moehoward
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To: MNJohnnie

Rubio might snag 1st because the bomb tossing from both Trump and Cruz camps. Voters might just decide, “they’re both a-holes,” and throw their vote to Rubio. I am a Cruz fan, but this dirty campaigning by both Trump and Cruz hurts us conservatives and gives an opening to the establishment candidate(s).


34 posted on 02/01/2016 7:19:09 AM PST by reegs
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I heard that. People interviewed over the weekend who had still not decided.

I think it is just a polite way to tell the media to buzz off.

35 posted on 02/01/2016 7:19:40 AM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: Biggirl

What type of person waits to the last minute
and then may change 10 times before they vote?


36 posted on 02/01/2016 7:21:59 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittancez)
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To: reegs

Yep. Evangelicals tend to react very negatively to the sort of bare knuckle campaign Trump/Cruz did in January. Rubio is working the Evangelical angle very very hard.


37 posted on 02/01/2016 7:31:14 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: tennmountainman

I have been thinking the same thing for two days now!!! Who in the heck can change their minds 2or three times???? I mean we have been on this site literally fighting with each other to the death and NO ONE changes their mind !!! Who are these folks that live in Iowa can’t say I would want them running a business if it is that hard to make a decision and stick to it!!!


38 posted on 02/01/2016 7:33:10 AM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: Biggirl

I find the IA Caucuses to be meaningless. Look at some of the previous winners.


39 posted on 02/01/2016 7:33:44 AM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: Biggirl

BS..... that is dogma but I don’t believe it

Folks won’t venture out at night on an unknown mission.


40 posted on 02/01/2016 7:36:07 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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