Iowans Only! Who Will You Be Voting For In The Caucus?

[highcotton]

Originally Posted by RedJacket

She makes Forrest Gump look like a Rhodes Scholar.

Pull your head out of your red jacket, and the corn out of your ears. She's probably more intelligent (IQ) than all the others.

[Greg_IA]

Originally Posted by capitalcityguy

Define "right". We didn't pick McCain. He lost. I think we should wear that as a badge of honor.

Good point.

What a shame it was that McCain won the nomination.

[tollfree]

The Caucus is a huge joke. Most precincts don't even have a paper trail. They tell you to stand in a certain part of a gymnasium, then some lady with trifocals walks around and does a "head count", as every person standing in a certain designated area counts as a vote. You don't actually submit a ballot, and people are easily swayed by emotion. There's a big "monkey see, monkey do" mentality in Iowa. I can only picture the Sanitorium caucus goers instilling guilt in others telling them to join the Sanitorium side...a vote for anyone else is unethical. It's such a backwards event.

The event is seen as political fodder to the rest of the country.

[capitalcityguy]

Originally Posted by RonnieJonez

The Caucus is a huge joke. Most precincts don't even have a paper trail. They tell you to stand in a certain part of a gymnasium, then some lady with trifocals walks around and does a "head count", as every person standing in a certain designated area counts as a vote. You don't actually submit a ballot, and people are easily swayed by emotion. There's a big "monkey see, monkey do" mentality in Iowa. I can only picture the Sanitorium caucus goers instilling guilt in others telling them to join the Sanitorium side...a vote for anyone else is unethical. It's such a backwards event.

The event is seen as political fodder to the rest of the country.

Nice job explaining the DEMOCRAT'S caucus. GOP caucus doesnt' work that way. They use paper ballots.

[tollfree]

So, hand count of paper ballots in every precinct, several of them probably illegible, scratched out, changed candidate, scratched out again. Again, usually by old women in trifocals.

They need to computerize it and have people be able to walk in, check their candidate and leave. That wouldn't be a caucus though and there wouldn't be time for political swaying at the precinct. Iowans can also be very frivolous about semantics...would essentially be a primary then. The "caucus" has become the political laughing stock of every major news network and publication. Not surprising.

[Luke9686]

Originally Posted by Tek_Freek

The fact that he wants to eliminate 5 departments and dump the responsibility on states scares the hell out of me. Have you been paying attention to how we've been doing lately? I can't imagine Iowa reps handling more responsibility and not screwing it up.

I don't like any of them and if the Republican party is not going to change I'm voting Obama.

Isn't this kind of contradictory? You say Paul scares you, but then say that if the party doesn't change you are voting for Obama. The only person in the entire presidential race, including Obama, that are saying ANYTHING different is Paul.

[DMRyan]

I think Professor Stephen Bloom and Ronnie Jonez is the same person. Both speak in sweeping generalizations about an entire population from some perceived position high above the rest of us.

[linicx]

The caucus is as much a part of the American political fabric as is the New Hampshire caucus. I personally think it is a very interesting process. It makes no difference anyway as IT IS OVER and the votes were counted. Romney and Santori are in a virtual tie for first place Paul is a very close second. The other three don't seem to be very significant at this point in the overall process. .

[mustang84]

Originally Posted by highcotton

Pull your head out of your red jacket, and the corn out of your ears. She's probably more intelligent (IQ) than all the others.

Swine Flu Bachmann? French culture Bachmann? John Wayne Gacy Bachmann? Elvis's b-day Bachmann? $2 a gallon gas Bachmann? Are we talking about the same Michele? She rides shotgun in the Clown Car with Perry and Palin.