There was a time when Iowa attracted people and politicians who would show up and party like it was in 1959. The residents would then, after close to a year of this, gather in barns or local veterans halls (or wherever) and raise a hand for a candidate of their choice.
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Bernie Sweeps to Victory in Nevada While Biden Gets a Lifeline
2020 is shaping up to be a hard lesson for the political elites. If the Bernie Juggernaut keeps this momentum the candidates of choice will both be non-establishment outsiders. The Democrats, of course, will do all in their power to keep Bernie off their ticket. But what does that look like?
Democrat Lessons from Iowa (And for Everything) – Blame Republicans
One of the issues with the Democrat’s abject failure to run a caucus was clogged phone lines. Russians apparently hacked the number and gave it to Trump supporters who called it to complain. Democrats couldn’t send in their votes.
Reliability of Iowa Democrat Result
However the Iowa Caucus turns out there is a lack of trust in the outcome. Three days later the count the results are “97% tallied.”
There Could be Official Results (From Iowa) Before the Results From the New Hampshire Primary
Iowa’s Democratic Party announces a preliminary winner of their caucus… The selection comes on partial results that probably will change. (and have). With 62% of Iowa precincts reporting the results of Monday’s caucus, the results looked like this.
Iowa: Democrats Screwed the Pooch with a Field of Losers in Which no One is all that Interested
With 1562 votes counted (71%), Tom Steyer got five. Bennet, Bloomberg, Patrick, Gabbard, and Delaney have zero. Donut. At the other end of this dumpster fire, we have Buttigieg with 419 and Sanders with 394. 26.8% and 252%, respectively.
Breaking – Partial Democrat Caucus Results from Iowa … Buh Bye Biden!
The train wreck that is Democrat anything, exemplified by the massive screw up in Iowa, is slowly untangling itself. Nate Silver is reporting numbers with 62% of the Caucus results included.
Iowa Caucuses Crash and Burn
The Iowa caucuses crash-and-burn in a dramatic example of Democrat Party leadership and capacity. The Iowa State Democratic Party was slow-releasing results Monday night but at least they were inaccurate. No one seems to have a handle on what happened.
Trump Wins Iowa with Over 97% of the Vote While Dems Still Have No Clue
To make things easier big-government Democrats made the Iowa Caucus harder. And then they screwed that up. Yes, the Iowa Caucus debacle is the new poster child for planned rule. Experts who know nothing executing a convoluted system designed to fail.
The Democrat Nomination Process and How to Steal the Election from Bernie
The Democratic Party will officially nominate its 2020 presidential candidate at its July convention. They are starting the process beginning today. Monday is the Iowa caucuses. The process ends with the Puerto Rico primary in June.
NH’s 1st Conservative Caucus
Former gubernatorial candidate Andrew Hemingway shares his thoughts on last Weeks first ever conservative NH caucus.
GrokTALK! – Conservative Business League of NH
In this segment we address some of the challenges and benefits of holding a caucus, then Jim Kofalt explains what the Conservative Business League of NH does (CBL-NH), and its relationship to the 603 Alliance.
GrokTALK! – Join the Alliance!
Jim Kofalt explains what the 603 Alliance is, what it has set out to do, and how it plans to do it. Do what? Unify libertarians, conservatives, independents, and independent minded Republicans to avoid the quadrennial anointing of another progressive Republican presidential nominee.
How Much Mileage Can We Get Out Of This? (Updated & Bumped)
Update! – The Democrats claim they needed the Monday Caucus so that both sides could give their views on the Casino Bill, and that this was a legitimate purpose for which they could exact a mileage reimbursement on a Monday, but Wednesday morning of the same week, before the session and vote on the Casino Bill, the Democrats held a caucus at which they discussed…. the Casino bill. Democrat Governor Maggie Hassan even came to that Caucus to make her final pitch for the legislation.
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From the Concord Fish Wrapper…
“Please remember that mileage reimbursement will only be paid for travel on Mondays and Fridays for statutory committees which meet on those days,” Norelli wrote in the April 26 edition of the House Calendar.
But this Monday, House Democrats held a closed-door caucus that didn’t appear in last week’s calendar. Norelli’s spokesman, Mario Piscatella, said the caucus was held to discuss the casino bill, with members on both sides of the issue presenting their views followed by a discussion.
That doesn’t sound like a statutory committee. And yet 78 Democrats–the attendees of the “Caw!-cus” –all requested mileage reimbursement.
Wednesday Morning Coffee – Ron Paul Third in Iowa
An “ends justifies the means” approach to a Republican primary is how ‘Republicans’ for Ron Paul justify begging Democrats to register as Republicans or independents so they can screw with the results of the GOP Primary to their candidates advantage.
In Iowa, assuming it worked, this netted Congressman Paul a decent third place showing. We are left to wonder what the numbers would be without the interlopers, but it seems certain Ron Paul owns third place by a wide margin. In Iowa that is as reasonable a launching pad for the Oval office as first, second, or fourth.
Meanwhile, in New Hampshire, where a near-majority of voters register as independents, Dr. Paul should expect to do better. But if he can’t there is no reason to believe he will find improvements in South Carolina or Florida. Failing to win New Hampshire is by no means fatal, but if he can’t pull out a first or second here, the odds of doing it anywhere else dim considerably despite his otherwise outstanding campaign mechanics.