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Iowa
Republicans: I'm so pleased it wasn't Trump who won. Mike Huckabee dropped out.
Democrats: Dead heat for Clinton and Sanders with 90% of votes in. Wow. I didn't think it would be this tight. Martin O'Malley dropped out.
Re: Iowa
Yes, I think there may be some legitimacy to the Cruz/Carson fiasco. Some people posted a Tweet on FB from Steve King (the IA politician who endorsed Cruz) of him saying "Carson has dropped out." If a "well-respected" person in your state stated something of that nature, why would you doubt them? And, when you're actually in the physical precincts, it's not like you're going to have the time or the ability to fact check things very well or quickly.
I watched about 40% of Cruz's speech and I was pleased it wasn't Trump, so I was starting to mentally swap over to Cruz as someone to support on Super Tuesday. But, then this story erupted this morning and now, I'm not sure about Cruz at all. I agree with much of what he says and stands for; however, if this story is true, then I waiver on whether or not Cruz is truthful.
If he's not, and if Carson doesn't do well between now and Super Tuesday, my vote will probably go to Rubio, despict me not liking the whole Gang of Eight stuff.
Fox had a "live" count going on online of all the votes for all the counties for both the Reps and Dems. With the Reps it became pretty clear after about 50% of the votes were in that Cruz was in the lead and would likely stay there.
But, it was literally too tight to tell between Clinton and Sanders.
So their live votes, I noticed too that the Reps had well over 150,000 total votes (it broke the 2012 record by like 60,000 votes). But the Dems only had like 2,000 or 3,000 total votes. As counties reported, you could go to each one and view the actual vote breakdown. For Clinton and Sanders numbers were in the hundreds (or less) for each county.
I was looking at the primary data from 2012, and I have determined that caucuses are dumb. All the states that have caucuses have less than 5% of eligible voters participate will regular primaries have closer to 20%.
The idea of caucuses annoy me, because what if you are a new mom whose baby usually eats or sleeps around 7pm on voting day? What if you are old and sick and you really need some rest? What if you work at 3 or 4 in the morning struggling to put a meal on your families' table and need to be in bed early to work safely the next day? It just seems so inconvenient to anyone who doesn't work 9-5.
Iowa has not chosen a U.S. president in 16 years, so I guess it's still anyone's game.
Hillary tied with Sanders shows her incompetence. A 74 year old democratic socialist is right on her tail. I just read that she won over a COIN TOSS? I thought it was a joke until it was confirmed on my local news station.
Regarding Cruz or Cruz's campaign making things up about Ben leaving. Bill O'Reilly said he believes the rumor may have been started by CNN. On his show last night, he said he will investigate and have a follow up story on his show tonight.