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anchordraw
The Iowa Caucus is a complete fail. Many tried to allow absentee ballots to allow service members to vote on their Commander in Chief. Iowa once again said no. As a former member of the military, I find it offensive that a state intentionally constructs a primary system that insures military member serving their country are excluded from voting.
Others excluded include anyone working during the 7pm-9pm window. Firemen, police officers, doctors, just to name a few. Now the state only gets 5-10% turnout for these silly caucuses. Hardly a true representation of the Iowa electorate anyway, but to insure many solid citizens of that state will not be able to vote is a complete fail imo.
Trump should have gone to last debate. His veterans fund raiser was nice, but nobody should change their vote because of that, while many possible voters in Iowa may few it as a snub, while military members can't vote anyway, due to the corn picker rules.
How would an absentee ballot ever work with a caucus? I do support your objection to the caucus process. Does the rest of the world really appreciate all the edges that are played in the US process? Democracy, lol.
I just have this gut feel Nate Silver and the rest have not focused enough on the actual caucus process and how this plays into a charismatic and polarizing candidate's hand.
Saw a Marketwatch piece written by a reporter who placed a bet on the Presidential election using Bitcoin.
Betting on US elections has been positively verboten. Not Vegas not anywhere. This has always been white hot. AG's might ignore a lot of things but this?
Watching to see if this gets traction.
Also, will Russia always scramble jets on primary days? Sorta a flyover on Trump's behalf?