Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
Quote Originally Posted by DRK Star View Post
Cruz, during his speech tonight, said that he had 12,000 volunteers helping him in Iowa, get the word out and work phones, etc.


He received 51,496 votes


12K people to get 51K votes sounds terrible.
It sounds terrible, but it's worth it because of how influential the Iowa results can be.

This year Iowa is especially important for both parties, because we have a weird, atypical candidate on each side (Sanders and Trump).

I know that I was far more excited about the Iowa results than I have ever been before, where I would usually laugh it off as early and mostly meaningless. Here it mattered because it would establish or break momentum for the super-outsider candidates.

Tonight proved that Trump's poll numbers don't tell the whole story. He was shown by polls leading by 5% coming into the caucus, and he lost by 4%. That's a huge swing, and it means that many of his supporters are all talk but no vote -- something many Trump detractors have been saying all along.

If Al Gore could have seen the future, imagine how many thousands of campaign workers he would have sent to Florida, just to get 600 votes!
good point, and I'm sure in four years, people will be picking up homeless people in Iowa and taking them to the polls. But don't get me started on what Gore did in fl. He didn't just look at hanging chads, he knew the military vote was bad for him, so he got absentee votes from military thrown out as well. The military postal system does even use a date stamp, so he took over 1000 absentee votes and had them thrown out, even though they were sent on time.

Gore is no different than the corn pickers in Iowa, if you are over seas, serving your country, and you might vote republican, your vote is not welcome, but if you die for your country, thats ok. Fuck gore and anybody that is NOT willing to call out what he did, throwing out those votes.