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Hard to believe this monster got that many votes, but then again not even a third of the registered republicans in Iowa even went to vote!

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Alas, that is the problem with our system. The Electoral College makes the primary the all important event, and primary turnout sucks. Plus you get the most ideologically intense voters, people you wouldn't trust to be dog catcher, to be the arbiters of who advances.

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Per CBS news

The 110,000 voters who participated in the 2024 cacuses accounts for just under 15% of the state's 752,000 registered Republicans.

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Jan 16Liked by Geoff Anderson

It can’t be much fun to be a talking head and have to fill airtime when it’s a foregone conclusion that Trump is going to win the state. No amount of wishing is going to create a horse race.

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24 hours ago, the folks at The Bulwark were positive that Haley was going to crush Desantis like a bug. That was their hopium talking.

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Ha, it sounds like you're consuming more of their content than I at this point, and my subscription hasn't run out yet (it will sometime next month).

Really, a brown woman who converted to Christianity was going to garner loads of votes in fundy Iowa?! SMDH

Edited to add: The article title at the top of their right column is "Iowa's Silver Lining," by Mona.

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Yeah, the hopium ingestion (indigestion?) of the Never Trump cohort coupled with creative wish casting were doomed to be a bad time.

You just hate to see it ;-)

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