How does that show it’s close? The being within 0.2% with 97% reporting … that shows it’s close.
I was just wondering about this myself. What if he bit it around late summer? We’d have round the clock memorials and tributes and feel-good stories about the Clinton 90s for a good month or two. That can’t be anything but good for the Hillary camp. I mean, everyone’s gotta go sometime. Might as well make Bill’s going worthwhile, right?
Just hope they make it cleaner than Vince’s. Wait, did I say that out loud? Nothing to see here folks.
Gilmore has 12 votes!. 12. In the entire state.
He’s the same age as GW Bush and Trump, but Bush and Trump don’t give off the vibe of being in poor health. Sanders is 5 years his senior and looks to me to be in better health as well. If I had to put money on which of those 4 would be the first to die,my money would be on Bill. He just doesn’t look well.
Honestly, I never thought he was the same after the bypass heart surgery. And that was quite a few years ago. You notice it in his voice-- it’s lost a lot of it’s clarity and power. And he’s lost more weight than seem natural.
Still beating expectations.
The Gilmore comeback is finally ramping up!
(He was stalled at 11 for a while tonight…)
He’s catching up; Sticky Ricky’s getting nervous.
He just gave a speech a couple of days ago near here, rocking an awesome American flag sweater. He seemed pretty good then. Who knows what might be going on with him tonight.
It shows it’s close down at the local level, this isn’t just about regional difference, they’re duking it out everywhere. They’re now getting into the procedural arguments and questioning the counts because it’s close enough to make a difference. All of this prevents either side from claiming a real victory.
“Bill, my campaign staff says there’s something you can do to really boost my campaign chances…”
“Anything, Hillary, anything at all!”
“Maybe you should hear it first. Sitting down.”
Jefferson County is where Fairfield is located, which is the home of Maharishi University. Folks study transcendental meditation and yogi flying there. Lots of free-thinking, old-fashioned hippie types, mostly originally from places far from Iowa. It’s no surprise Sanders did well there.
Source: grew up 20 minutes away, knew local people who helped convert the former Parsons College campus to Maharishi U, had my first real job at KMCD/KBCT radio in Fairfield. Trust me, it’s not your typical Iowa town.
Holy crap! I haven’t heard of that place for like 40 years. I figured at the time it wouldn’t last 4. I was surprised then to keep hearing about it, they were a big draw for some variety of upper middle class nerds.
thanks, Uncle Jocko.
Jim Carrey gave the commencement speech there in 2014. No, I am not making this up!
See!
I honestly thought that that was a joke until you mentioned it, so I had to google it. I shouldn’t really be surprised that Maharishi U exists. I just wouldn’t have figured it for Iowa. Would have thought someplace more…progressive. San Francisco, NYC, something like that.
In all honesty, those were just people who thought they were watching the Gilmore Girls revival on Netflix.
Winners: Cruz, Rubio, Sanders
Meh: Clinton
Losers: Trump, Carson, Santorum, O’Malley, Huckabee
On predictit, Rubio’s stock has risen the most. That’s bad news for my man Kasich, who I was hoping would take NH if Cruz beat Trump, but Rubio’s strength makes Rubio very likely to win NH.
But she’ll also lose the “we’re just voting to get Bill back in the White House” vote.
Disagree. I’m more persuaded by this argument by Nate Cohn in the NY Times:
I feel much more sanguine about Hillary’s path to the nomination now. I had a couple Facebook friends dispute my (and Cohn’s) view, and I challenged them to a bet. I even gave them 2-1: my $100 if Bernie gets the nomination, against their $50 if Hillary does. Neither were willing to put their money where their mouths were, so I guess it was all hot air after all.
I was at a caucus tonight that pretty closely represented the statewide situation. They were at 91 Sanders, 89 Hillary, and 10 O’Malley; then the O’Malley group went 6-4 Sanders and sealed it (although they ended up just awarding them 9 delegates each, which illustrates why we’ll never really know who got more “votes”).
It was a lot of fun for two political geeks: my teenaged son (a big Bernie fan) and I (a Hillary supporter). But it was a little disturbing how vulnerable it appeared to be to chicanery. We are not Iowans, and drove over the border to observe. We had some trouble finding the caucus location, and got there about 7:30. We just walked right in and stood over near the Bernie people (that’s where my son wanted to be, with the “cool kids”; it was admittedly true that the majority of Hillary’s section was made up of white-haired ladies). Then when it came time to count, they were going to count us for Bernie! I had to sort of wave at them and tell them not to (my son, sneaky devil, was discouraging me from saying anything, LOL).
Given the immense power of the presidency and the disproportionate power of Iowa in starting the process of becoming president, what I observed clearly leaves way too much of an inviting target for fraud. :dubious:
hah! Bush is so forgettable adaher even forgot to put him in the Losers category.
Nah, that would be (a) too expensive and (b) too busy/disruptive for yogic flight 
you really need rural peace for that, and open fields in case someone has to crash land.