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Elections 2016 Iowa Caucus Thread

Who wins from each party's Iowa Caucus? (Two options for each party)

  • Jeb Bush (R)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Ben Carson (R)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Chris Christie (R)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Carly Fiorina (R)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Rick Santorum (R)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Mike Huckabee (R)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • John Kasich (R)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Jim Gilmore (R)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    55
  • Poll closed .
Oh sure, and Bernie's is all about love for the rich.
No, what I meant was, I've literally never heard Rubio cut a promo that didn't have aggressively negative overtones. Bernie critizes Wall St., but then always comes back to "this is how we change things for the better". Rubio's message can be condensed down to "Obama/Hillary are evil, and have ruined your once-great country...derp"(applause).
 
Three things I wanted to see happen tonight:
1. Shillary lose
2. Rubio win, or at least have a good showing
3. Trump to lose since he acted like a pussy and ducked the last debate

This may be the best thing that happened. If candidates could see skipping debates as helping them in polls, it would be awful for the process.
 
Are you kidding? He's been the candidate focusing on a positive message along with Kasich.
His early campaigning, certainly, but he's been more willing to go negative in the last few weeks. The last debate was a pretty sharp contrast from the first - much more aggressive.
 
Fucking Rubio, in this speech, tossing out his goddamn New American Century talk. I can't believe those ideas are still alive.
 
Watching Rubio's speech, I'm legit confused, the country is fine. What is he saving us from? Is there an asteroid headed for earth or something? He gives this weird a speech during the GE & he'll get crushed.
 
Watching Rubio's speech, I'm legit confused, the country is fine. What is he saving us from? Is there an asteroid headed for earth or something? He gives this weird a speech during the GE & he'll get crushed.
It's a more principled version of the doomsday/attacking angles taken by Trump and Cruz. Rather than get him crushed, I think it will distinguish him as a "moderate" (heavy emphasis on quotation marks, but a "moderate" who upholds all the values) which is truly ominous.
 
Fucking Rubio, in this speech, tossing out his goddamn New American Century talk. I can't believe those ideas are still alive.

I was reading a pre-WW2 article from a Time article and I swear it was time traveler Rubio with all the we must assert American values through out the world.
 
Hillary does already have 16% of the delegates needed to win the nomination nationally though. That will help a lot later
 
Fucking Rubio, in this speech, tossing out his goddamn New American Century talk. I can't believe those ideas are still alive.

Watching Rubio's speech, I'm legit confused, the country is fine. What is he saving us from? Is there an asteroid headed for earth or something? He gives this weird a speech during the GE & he'll get crushed.

You can run a campaign on positive notes. This is what the GOP use to do in the Eisenhower era and then it slowly began shifting towards fear. Campaigning on peace and prosperity use to be a standard. At least Rubio is doing half of that..
 
He has a very good favor-ability rating, is young, Hispanic and holds a high office in a key swing state. He's definitely competitive. Hillary would have a lot of issues with the contrasts that would occur between them.

Liberal woman vs conservative white (sorta?) man... have to give the advantage to the former.
 
A far far far left ideological old small state candidate isn't going to have mass appeal.

He draws massive crowds all over the country and the majority of Americans are still Democratic. That sounds like something that was said against Sanders six months ago but doesn't represent the truth of things now.
 
Rubio and Trump may as well have tied, they both get the same amount of delegates.
 
Bernie's wife looks like a dumpster fire compared to Trump's.
 
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