Posted on 02/01/2016 3:07:17 PM PST by markomalley
A search shows that nobody's opened up a live thread for tonight's caucuses. So here goes.
Predictions? For both the GOP and Dem nominations?
Eyewitness Accounts? See any funny business going on?
Like western Kansas and Nebraska, they’ve got a lot of meatpacking plants that need cheap labor.
Here’s why. Rubio and Trump are splitting the vote in Polk County letting in Cruz to take the lead in the county.
It blows my mind that people actually vote for Hillary and Bernie. Ugh.
Totally agree with you.
It’s obvious to me that Trump hurt himself badly in the last few days with this silly argument with Cruz and with his comments concerning healthcare.
The late deciders went heavily for Rubio, and that doesn’t surprise me at all the way they both have acted.
I think they are siphoning them from Trump to Rubio.
Rubio is a joke. How does he generate this many votes? It does not add up.
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Rubio is the proxy for “the field”. When the options are Trump, Cruz, Someone else. That’s Rubio.
Like the batting average, the higher the “percent in” gets, the harder it is to move the numbers.
GOPe types on Twitter just having orgasms.
Cruz is keeping his lead, but Rubio is starting to creep up toward Trump. If the trend continues, there a serious chance for:
1) Cruz
2) Rubio
3) Loser Trump
The year (post Obama) favors R. So the media is told to make sure a bought and paid for candidate makes it. They have no choice but to push Rubio.
lol!
I think the field is going to narrow to 3, perhaps 4 before New Hampshire and it's going to get very interesting indeed.
there clearly was an organized effort by town committee types in some of the cities .... to pull vote out for Cruz in an effort to defeat Trump.
Cruz doing well in areas he caouldnt do without party insider support.
@cnn reporting Tim Scott will endorse Rubio. Scott has a large R following/impact in South Carolina.
I’ll take a vulture capitalist over an open borders puppet any day ...
It never works out well when mortal men claim the Power of Christ in order to achieve worldly gain. This won’t end well for either Cruz or his followers. Too bad we’ll probably have to share the pain.
Rubio’s late surge is certainly odd, isn’t it??
Rural areas seem slower tonight. Where I live (in a golden western suburb of Des Moines), we had record turnout. Contrary to popular theory, Cruz won by 10% or so.
The whole thing was over in an hour!
However this finishes, there’s one thing everyone should really think about.
Cruz was an absolute afterthought when he announced. “Too extreme.” “Everybody hates him.” Blah, blah, blah.
That he was able to put together an organization to take him to a victory, or even a near victory, is an amazing organizational feat that says really good things about his ability to mount a campaign. It’s pretty amazing really.
Hank
;-)
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