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?
Yes, screw the bloated Clinton and Trump polls.
When Cruz and Trump fight
Or Rubio and Cruz fight
Hillary and the MSM smiles
True, but it is also about perception. If Trump goes from a 28 point lead to a 2 point win in a week, the perception is going to be that he is falling fast. That would be two elections in a row where he performed much worse than the polls indicated, which would make everyone start to question all of the other polls showing him in the lead.
And since like Iowa, NH is a proportional state, that 2-pt lead will mean an extra 1 delegate over the number two finisher.
settle down....CNN tweeted it first....you can’t blame them...
don’t believe everything you read.
I tend to disagree. Listening to all the GOP mess as they destroy each other and say how horrible this one is and that one, I almost feel like not voting for them...ha.
Just don’t see that as winning over any independents, especially the young.
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Cruz will take all but a few of Carson’s supporters.
That’ll happen whether or not he drops out.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=Iowa+caucus+results&eob=R/2/short/m.03s0w/
Will someone please tell me how that happened? Rove?
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The independents are who gave Cruz the win tonight.
and why the heck did carson even mention going to home to florida....?? no way...he should have been every present in iowa if it mattered that much.... not bowing out early...
I think you are putting too much credit into the Iowa Caucus, it does give Cruz the opportunity to live another day on the campaign but it certainly does not put him in control of anything
I am sure Huckabee and Santorum would love to explain this to you
They ran as Texans. The first ran on the coattails of Reagan.
I don' think Trump is going to do anything that would promote abortion
Trump has already said in the past his pro-abortion sister judge should be on the supreme court. You do not know what he stands for or will do, you just hear what you want to and this is exactly what I mean about the flyover country and double speak.
If anything he will be busy cleaning up our trade deals, building the wall, kicking out the illegals and killing off ISIS scum.....
How many positions has he already changed his position on during the campaign? He is a deal maker....an international one. It proves the point I made about trust, Northerners and flyover country.
Did you read the article? Those at caucuses are saying the Cruz people told them Dr. Carson dropped out, one in a speech in front of hundreds.
CNN probably got that from Cruz.
What has been the DEM turnout in previous Iowa caucuses? Tonight’s turnout sees ridiculously low for them, as much as it is ridiculously high for the Republicans ... I suspect some funny business that begins and ends with Rubio and the GOPe ... Of course, I could be wrong.
LOL, I meant in my life time.
CNN 90 Precincts not correctly recorded - due to understaffing—
they are asking them to “recreate the caucuses”
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NH is already in motion tonight.
Check the betting lines.
Ronald Reagan didn't have the 11th Commandment just because he was a nice guy.
75% of christians historically don’t get out the vote...
we don’t need the independents, we need the Christian right....
if they got out to vote, there never be another democrat elected. ever.
The two previous winners in Iowa won the nomination in '96 and 2000.
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