Trump really overplayed his hand. It worries me that Evangelicals could vote for such a vile person. apparently all you have to do is pretend to be religious and call the Lord’s name. Cruz is sickening. I can’t stand either one of these racist haters.
Winner! Judith, you are probably asleep, but you owe me a keyboard, because mine is all sticky with the wine I spilled laughing so hard at your hilarious and brilliant comment/question.
According to MSNBC, COS, it still hasn’t been officially called. After HRC spoke, they mentioned she didn’t actually use the “victory” word. Strange. And I am not surprised.
What happened to Rev,/Gov. Mike Huckabee, the winner of 2008 GOP Iowa Caucus? I thought he was the darling of the so called “Evangelical Christians.” Did the patriotic “Evagelicals” chose a Cuban-Canadian instead of their own flesh and blood, Rev. Huckabee?
Bush’s Iowa performance is even worse than expected
The bar was low for Jeb Bush’s finish in Monday’s Iowa caucus. He failed to clear it anyway.
As of 10:20 p.m. as returns came in Bush was pulling in just 2.8 percent of the vote. That puts the former Florida Governor in sixth place, behind Sen. Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Sen. Marco Rubio, Ben Carson and even Sen. Rand Paul. It did, however, put him ahead of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, Chris Christie and Rick Santorum.
HE’S STIRRING THE POT AND RAND PAUL’S FINANCIAL BACKERS SMOKE IT…………..LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL…CAN’T WAIT TO SEE THE DISCUSSION ON THIS VISIT…I SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT MY MUSLIM FRIENDS TO MY RIGHT WING CHURCH AND…TAKEN PICTURES OF THE DEATH MARCH!
the best outcome today is donald dreck’s hot air balloon got punctured tonight. it would be interesting to see how his openly racist fans would react to that and how it would affect NH.
LOL! GOP HQ is shitting themselves right now with Cruz winning…..Bush, Kasich, Christie would all have to drop out before New Hampshire, but the opposite is going to happen…..They are going to try to destroy Rubio and hope Trump beat Cruz to prolong this sucker
They have to be negative, nasty and vindictive. Only way that their people will listen. They are so scared of Hillary – anything to try and build up Bernie for fail in the election
Both George H.W. Bush (1988) and Bill Clinton (1992) didn’t NOT win the Iowa caucuses; but they still won the presidency. Actually, since 1988, many Presidential candidates who won the Iowa caucuses, both on the Democratic side and the Republican side, never won the nomination of their respective parties Here are some of them that I recall:. Bob Dole (R),1988; Dick Gebphat (D),1988; Tom Harkin, (D), 1992; Mike Huckabee (R), 2008; and Rick Santorum (R), 2012.
BTW, it took more than a week for Iowa GOP to confirm Santorum as winner in 2012 — MSM took off and ran with Romney as winner, and actual (corrected) results got lost in the focus on NH, NV and SC primaries.
I haven’t read many articles about HRC campaign, but she no doubt got the unpledged Iowa delegates to become superdelegates for herself (could be all wet, not really interested in finding out — my primary political objective this year is keep up with #POTUSunplugged!)
Was about to post a similar tweet (hell, I’ll do it any way).
Check out some of my responses upthread. Iowa’s role is to set the stage, but what matters is what happens during the next month — where everyone is on Mar 2 (after Super Tuesday’s 864 pledged delegate haul).
Sanders's camp says that the Iowa Democratic Party has informed the campaigns that the caucus results from 90 precincts are missing.
I’m attempting to post this so that only the strong of stomach will see the photo in tweet:
“Sen.Ted Cruz arrives at victory party in DesMoines after winning Iowa caucus.”
With all but 9 precincts reporting Hillary has 49.6 to Sanders at 49.3. Barely a win for HRC but the good news is that Sanders DIDN”T win and can’t claim some momentum he doesn’t have. After NH it’s NV, SC, and a whole host of Southern and other states that Sanders can’t win.
I was just going through the counties HRC won or is leading. Most of the precincts who have not reported are in HRC’s winning column. The story the Sanders campaign is passing around about 90 lost precinct caucus is LITERALLY NOT TRUE based on the small number that have not yet reported.
Bill, are those 9 precincts in Sanders or Hillary camp? Really closer than I thought it would be. That’s a wake up call for both, I think. Time for Hillary to run hard on PBO’s Dem record, if she wants the job. Not listen to DNC or DWS. Everyone wants the title, not a single one is genuinely after the job for We The People. IMO. I pray that this Dem primary stays above board and lacks incivility.
Mostly Hillary’s I think. I think the incivility is gone from the Sandernistas, at least in the social media realm. And when Bernie’s crowd were yelling “Liar,liar” during Hillary’s speech, that didn’t play well.
Here is Nate Cohn’s take from the NYTimes on this outcome. Makes sense:
The "virtual tie" is acceptable for Clinton, and bad news for Sanders https://t.co/GDpjAfKRHZ
from the article: Re: Sanders…
.He fares best among white voters. The electorate was 91 percent white, per the entrance polls. He does well with less affluent voters..
and…
This raises a straightforward challenge for Mr. Sanders. He has nearly no chance to do as well among nonwhite voters as Mr. Obama did in 2008. To win, Mr. Sanders will need to secure white voters by at least a modest margin and probably a large one. In the end, Mr. Sanders failed to score a clear win in a state where Mr. Obama easily defeated Mrs. Clinton among white voters.
Willbe interesting to see what Sanders does re: among…blks…latinos…and other folks of color…
just an aside..i do not like the non-white vs white…stuff…notice the primary word is “white”
gm TOD – from what I can find (not so easy) it seems the turnout of democrats & republicans were very similar. Everyone is saying “record numbers” so if it’s on both sides is this a good sign for the democratic party?
2008 brought 240k dems, but then in 2008 people were really pissed off at dumbya regime, not the phony poutrage pissed off gingered up by bernie and donald dreck. There was nothing in real world to poutrage about, the job numbers are exceelnt, economy in a good shape and no fucking wars.
rethugs had more turn-out this time around because most seemed to have come just to stop donald dreck. The late surge goppers went 30% to ted crud, 25% to aqua boy and only 14% to dreck. So, it was a spectacular backfire for the racist clown. But the pundtwit clowns all claimed a bigger turnout would only help the punk and they were wrong. Again.
The Obama Diary 
Howdy!!!
Thanks for the compilation of tweets Nerdy.
COS, you did again!!! Congrats for your triple gold today.
Guess it is just my day No Child. I am on my fast computer tonight. 🙂
🙂
WELP!
Congrats COS!
How are you?
Great LDS. Just waiting for this nail biter race to be called. I so do not want BS to win.
Trump really overplayed his hand. It worries me that Evangelicals could vote for such a vile person. apparently all you have to do is pretend to be religious and call the Lord’s name. Cruz is sickening. I can’t stand either one of these racist haters.
Marshawn giving the “OMG I’m being compared to Rafael Cruz” face 🙂 :
These idiots want to be Obama so badly…
GE HF2.
It’s absolutely ridiculous that so much nationwide attention is paid to this contest.
Can’t find the tweet now, but saw one mentioning “Presidents Huckabee and Santorum” (winners of Iowa GOP 2008 caucus and 2012 caucus).
Losers lament.
What – they peed on Carson’s pants so he would have to go home to wash them?
🙂 🙂 🙂 best comment all night…
Winner! Judith, you are probably asleep, but you owe me a keyboard, because mine is all sticky with the wine I spilled laughing so hard at your hilarious and brilliant comment/question.
Congrats, Hillary. But, please, it was only the FIRST state. Save some of it for the others.
did they call it for HRC Jacqueline?
According to MSNBC, COS, it still hasn’t been officially called. After HRC spoke, they mentioned she didn’t actually use the “victory” word. Strange. And I am not surprised.
This is wacky. Makes no sense.
Bernie called it a “virtual tie” (they’re apart by 3, apparently) and the crowd laughed.
GE COS.
It’s all about east coast time zones.
That’s why anything that happens on the west coast after noon-ish local time rarely gets covered by east coast media.
Saw several tweets from MSM commented on the timing of tonight’s speeches. For instance:
and upchuck graces us with his brilliant analysis
In my humble opinion, I think Chuck Todd needs to go back to college to study real journalism.
love this one!
AND A CARPET BOMB MANUAL!
ann selzer’s record is blemished tonight. she got the goppers totally wrong and the dems right just by a tiny margin.
What happened to Rev,/Gov. Mike Huckabee, the winner of 2008 GOP Iowa Caucus? I thought he was the darling of the so called “Evangelical Christians.” Did the patriotic “Evagelicals” chose a Cuban-Canadian instead of their own flesh and blood, Rev. Huckabee?
Ha. Don’t hold back, nath! And, yes, I believe the Evangelicals did!
Bush’s Iowa performance is even worse than expected
The bar was low for Jeb Bush’s finish in Monday’s Iowa caucus. He failed to clear it anyway.
As of 10:20 p.m. as returns came in Bush was pulling in just 2.8 percent of the vote. That puts the former Florida Governor in sixth place, behind Sen. Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Sen. Marco Rubio, Ben Carson and even Sen. Rand Paul. It did, however, put him ahead of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, Chris Christie and Rick Santorum.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/jeb-bush-iowa-caucuses-218594#ixzz3yyz07Zq0
GM amk.
LOL.
LOL. True.
Poor “JEB!” Has he suspended his campaign yet?
HE’S STIRRING THE POT AND RAND PAUL’S FINANCIAL BACKERS SMOKE IT…………..LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL…CAN’T WAIT TO SEE THE DISCUSSION ON THIS VISIT…I SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT MY MUSLIM FRIENDS TO MY RIGHT WING CHURCH AND…TAKEN PICTURES OF THE DEATH MARCH!
NO THANKS…I HAVE TO TOSS MY BREAKFAST!
Second “breach of protocol” by Hillary, per Eugene Robinson: She started her speech while Cruz was still yapping.
Hey, what’s a little protocol! Ha.
I would call that perfect protocol. They really have nothing negative to say about the democrats – so they make it up.
Say what you want about PPP (mostly GOP whiners) but they are a the top of their game on a consistent basis
Selzer (Mrs. Gold standard) missed Cruz by 10pts.
sam is the best– just the facts, ma’am 🙂
at the end of months of millions wasted, shouting, yelling and 24×7 hateful rhetoric, the delegate split between top 3 kkklowns is just 8-7-6. jeez.
Here is what is left on the map ~6%
99ts shared the attached link with the Iowa results https://www.idpcaucuses.com/#/state
94% reported:
Clinton
49.8%
Sanders
49.6%
From the results I would say that HRC did not have a good day.
Wow.
Appears that all of these poll predictors were wrong tonight.
I DO NOT BELIEVE IN POLLS AND I ALSO THINK PEOPLE DELIBERATELY LIE IN THEM TO THROW THINGS OFF………POLLS ARE WORTHLESS!
I guess POC are nothing but useful tools…..
GE no spin.
Agree that @franifusco’s tweet was inartfully worded, but the character limitations on Twitter doesn’t lend itself to clear explanations or follow up.
The early states, Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada have 103 pledged delegates.
South Carolina primary is on Saturday Feb 27 (53), followed by Super Tuesday (864 pledged delegates) on Mar 1.
We’ll know a lot more about the election landscape a month from tomorrow (Mar 2).
Between Super Tuesday (Mar 1) and Mar 14 there are 6 other elections.
Then some heavyweight states have primaries on Mar 15 (697 pledged delegates).
Stay tuned…
In 6 weeks we’ll have a pretty clear picture of how the DNC and RNC will play out in the summer.
the best outcome today is donald dreck’s hot air balloon got punctured tonight. it would be interesting to see how his openly racist fans would react to that and how it would affect NH.
LOL! GOP HQ is shitting themselves right now with Cruz winning…..Bush, Kasich, Christie would all have to drop out before New Hampshire, but the opposite is going to happen…..They are going to try to destroy Rubio and hope Trump beat Cruz to prolong this sucker
you would be right lovelyplains. I guess the RNC is so embarrassed by their own field, the tactic is to pretend that it isn’t happening.
They have to be negative, nasty and vindictive. Only way that their people will listen. They are so scared of Hillary – anything to try and build up Bernie for fail in the election
Both George H.W. Bush (1988) and Bill Clinton (1992) didn’t NOT win the Iowa caucuses; but they still won the presidency. Actually, since 1988, many Presidential candidates who won the Iowa caucuses, both on the Democratic side and the Republican side, never won the nomination of their respective parties Here are some of them that I recall:. Bob Dole (R),1988; Dick Gebphat (D),1988; Tom Harkin, (D), 1992; Mike Huckabee (R), 2008; and Rick Santorum (R), 2012.
Are they ever going to call this election!?!?!
they can’t since the margin is too tight at 0.3%.
Sorry, Eve, can’t call the results with only 3 votes separating 1st and 2nd place.
This was an hour ago:
BTW, it took more than a week for Iowa GOP to confirm Santorum as winner in 2012 — MSM took off and ran with Romney as winner, and actual (corrected) results got lost in the focus on NH, NV and SC primaries.
Right now, they’re showing HRC ahead, and with so few delegates left to commit, there’s no way Burnt can take it.
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2016/primaries/2016-02-01
Tomorrow is the filing deadline for Maryland Senate 😕
not sure what Meredith is alluding to as HRC isn’t trending either.
I think hillz had 8 super delegates before the counting even started. without them, she would have been toast today.
One good thing is sandernistas turned out tonight despite all our pre-poll suggestions. The Q is will they turn out in GE if he is not the nominee.
Are u allowed to include your superdelegate count in a state caucus or primary. Didn’t know that’s the way it works.
I don’t know the rules but gopolitico had 8 delegates in her column and 2 undecided right from the start.
Since I don’t have TV/cable, don’t know what they’re saying, but Twitter tells me it’s the predicable same-old-same-old.
MSM is DESPERATE for an “electable” GOPer (despite Hillary polarizing voters, no way could Trump or Cruz win general election).
I think “super delegates” are the unpledged delegates allotted to each state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_2016
Iowa has 8 unpledged delegates.
For perspective, California has 405 pledged delegates, 71 unpledged (but we vote in June 😦 ).
if they are unpledged, how did they end up in her column? we had this sd fight in 2008 and obviously not much improvement has been made since then.
I haven’t read many articles about HRC campaign, but she no doubt got the unpledged Iowa delegates to become superdelegates for herself (could be all wet, not really interested in finding out — my primary political objective this year is keep up with #POTUSunplugged!)
Candidate for best tweet of night:
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL..ON THE FLOOR!
GE/GM JO’B.
Was about to post a similar tweet (hell, I’ll do it any way).
Check out some of my responses upthread. Iowa’s role is to set the stage, but what matters is what happens during the next month — where everyone is on Mar 2 (after Super Tuesday’s 864 pledged delegate haul).
Not sure of the discrepancy of % out — this tweet indicates that 3% is outstanding.
Thanks! Gotta call it a night – eyes getting too sleepy! Sleep well, when you get there.
Turned out that report from Sanders camp was untrue.
she is waste bin already.
One more tweet from @danpfeiffer’s timeline, one that I’m sure we can all agree is a good one: 🙂
THIS ONE MAKES ME CRY…TIME FOR A DO OVER…A MOMENT WHEN I WOULD TRULY ENJOY REPEATING HISTORY!
This makes me want to barf.
I’m attempting to post this so that only the strong of stomach will see the photo in tweet:
“Sen.Ted Cruz arrives at victory party in DesMoines after winning Iowa caucus.”
Dag nabbit, tweet is appearing (thought just the tweet url appears if you don’t leave a space or carriage return after url. 😦
USED CAR SALESMAN CELEBRATING AT THE BAR ON LUNCH HOUR…BEER AND BOLOGNA…AWESOME SAUCE!
Calling it a day, but here’s two more tweets:
@IAStartingLine responded to this tweet:
OMG, did their stolen union pins end up in the Lost & Finally Found? Waaahwaa!
With all but 9 precincts reporting Hillary has 49.6 to Sanders at 49.3. Barely a win for HRC but the good news is that Sanders DIDN”T win and can’t claim some momentum he doesn’t have. After NH it’s NV, SC, and a whole host of Southern and other states that Sanders can’t win.
I was just going through the counties HRC won or is leading. Most of the precincts who have not reported are in HRC’s winning column. The story the Sanders campaign is passing around about 90 lost precinct caucus is LITERALLY NOT TRUE based on the small number that have not yet reported.
Bill, are those 9 precincts in Sanders or Hillary camp? Really closer than I thought it would be. That’s a wake up call for both, I think. Time for Hillary to run hard on PBO’s Dem record, if she wants the job. Not listen to DNC or DWS. Everyone wants the title, not a single one is genuinely after the job for We The People. IMO. I pray that this Dem primary stays above board and lacks incivility.
Mostly Hillary’s I think. I think the incivility is gone from the Sandernistas, at least in the social media realm. And when Bernie’s crowd were yelling “Liar,liar” during Hillary’s speech, that didn’t play well.
Here is Nate Cohn’s take from the NYTimes on this outcome. Makes sense:
Thanks, Bill, going to read this now.
from the article: Re: Sanders…
.He fares best among white voters. The electorate was 91 percent white, per the entrance polls. He does well with less affluent voters..
and…
This raises a straightforward challenge for Mr. Sanders. He has nearly no chance to do as well among nonwhite voters as Mr. Obama did in 2008. To win, Mr. Sanders will need to secure white voters by at least a modest margin and probably a large one. In the end, Mr. Sanders failed to score a clear win in a state where Mr. Obama easily defeated Mrs. Clinton among white voters.
Willbe interesting to see what Sanders does re: among…blks…latinos…and other folks of color…
just an aside..i do not like the non-white vs white…stuff…notice the primary word is “white”
“I pray that this Dem primary stays above board and lacks incivility.” But I say, all cleats for the general, Rugby style. 🙂
It’s over. Hillary wins.
NBC declares Hillary the winner:
I hope so Bill R., and not one of those bush-Gore things! I’m dyin’ here!
Thank you! ❤
Good Morning TODVille!
I hope Bernie Sanders takes Cornel West to help him win New Hampshire.
Has anyone seen Jeb! and NJ Gov. Chris Bridgegate Christie? What about Gov. Kasich? Have they left town yet?
they all cut loose and scampered away to NH even before the cote count. kasich was awol.
gm TOD – from what I can find (not so easy) it seems the turnout of democrats & republicans were very similar. Everyone is saying “record numbers” so if it’s on both sides is this a good sign for the democratic party?
Both had about 180K. Not yuuge at all.
2008 brought 240k dems, but then in 2008 people were really pissed off at dumbya regime, not the phony poutrage pissed off gingered up by bernie and donald dreck. There was nothing in real world to poutrage about, the job numbers are exceelnt, economy in a good shape and no fucking wars.
rethugs had more turn-out this time around because most seemed to have come just to stop donald dreck. The late surge goppers went 30% to ted crud, 25% to aqua boy and only 14% to dreck. So, it was a spectacular backfire for the racist clown. But the pundtwit clowns all claimed a bigger turnout would only help the punk and they were wrong. Again.
The media is saying its huuuge – but then I did read after I wrote the above that it was much less than the 2008 number.
Got to ignore the pundits
Thank you soooooooo much Nerdy!!
Mooooooorning everyone!
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/02/early-bird-chat-655/
Rubio was carrying on as if he was George Washington giving his first inaugural at the federal hall in NYC.
Lol lmao