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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAll this fuss was about 60,000 votes cast in the state of Iowa?
I think there are more registered voters than that in any two congressional districts in Virginia.
This may turn out to be one of the most expensive "so what" events of the decade.
MADem
(135,425 posts)joshcryer
(62,270 posts)I'm probably going to take a break for the next 6 months.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)If not, I give up on Virginia.
Well, I guess I've already done that, but...
DFW
(54,366 posts)I was thinking of the state House of Representatives, not the national one.
I should have been more specific, sorry!
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)hopefully there will be a couple weeks of tearing each other down between now and then
Gingrich is going down but he isn't going down alone
book_worm
(15,951 posts)which should cause the MSM to ask where the excited GOP voters are? Actually I think over 100,000 voted this time as well, but I'm not sure it was as many as last time.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)The OP refers to the vote totals for Santorum and Romney only (about 30 thousand each), so, 60,000.
MindMover
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(19,768 posts)to Dems and Repubs...
DFW
(54,366 posts)AND.....with a strong, moderate Republican candidate, e.g. Chuck Hagel, the Democratic
nominee would not have had such a cakewalk. The more the Republicans showed that
they had nothing to offer, the fiercer the fight for the Democratic nomination became.
This year, the Democratic nominee is obvious, and yet the Republicans STILL refuse to
put up a seriously qualified candidate. That doesn't guarantee they'll lose, but it makes
their race for the nomination a lot less interesting.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)I think that's a 25k improvement from 2008.
DFW
(54,366 posts)Both seemed to have scored under 30,000 votes each.
I'd hate to think how many dollars per vote that cost them!
I think I could get more than that many votes in the General, myself, asking only for write-ins, and running for president with the Frustrated Texan Party.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)If Rick Perry can do it, anyone can!
You can pander to the solar industry
DFW
(54,366 posts)Oh, wait.
Never mind.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)...maybe you should run for Agricultural Commissioner first or you could run a Major League Baseball team and some failed business ventures.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)The final difference is a few handshakes
DFW
(54,366 posts)He has a handshake that's as limp as a dead fish.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)The GOP got the best advertising their media owners could buy. The Democrats were there but got no coverage. Look at this great platform that the media bypassed to bring us the GOP clown circus:
Six Ways Iowa Progressives Will Caucus
http://www.thenation.com/blog/165408/six-ways-iowa-progressives-will-caucus
The media is really showing their true colors on this, giving airtime to the bigotry and lies of the GOP when they could be performing their mandate to inform the public to run the country.