They are voting on CSPAN 2

[ringmastery]

18 people for Kerry
16 people for Edwards
9 people for Dean
1 person for Gephardt

*small rural Iowa precinct

[jenk]

1. only 1 for gep???

wtf? in a small RURAL precinct?

I thought he'd do better here.

very impressed with Kerry

now the 1 gep supporter has to go elswhere right?

[AP]

2. Sweet.

Super sweet.

[mandyky]

3. This is a small private home caucus

And the lady who owns the house is a Kerry supporter, so I expected Kerry to win that one.

[BootinUp]

4. The one on C-Span will have 300+

caucusers.

Thanks for the post thats very interesting!

[creativelcro]

5. Oh, is this the one ine he house of the Kerry supporter?

[Kathleen04]

8. Yeah

it is

[Kathleen04]

6. Aha..

I was on C-Span 1..nothin going on over there right now. :)

[Renew Deal]

7. That Clark person is cute

:loveya:

[Clark4VotingRights]

14. They're all cute on CSPAN. CSPAN voters are cuter than CSPAN2 voters!

:)

They're real...real.

[Kathleen04]

19. And she switched

to Edwards, that's what I would have done. :)

[spooky3]

22. haha, she's now an Edwards person

she must like the cuties too!

11 for Dean
23 for Kerry
17 for Edwards

[Clark4VotingRights]

29. Ohhhhhh, "not viable."

Now the Kucinich/Edwards strategy becomes clear.
Dong.
Live 'n' learn.

[spooky3]

34. yes, he didn't have enough for 15%, but people can switch to "uncommitted"

if they don't want to pick another candidate.

Interesting process.

[rolodomo]

35. Thank goodness Richard from New York showed up...

He seems to help move things along.

[IndianaGreen]

9. And they are registering as voters as they come in!

How do we know they are not Republicans!

[Kathleen04]

17. At least..

there are no awful choices..

It's hard enough to get people to come out to caucus THEIR OWN party..inspiring people to come out for another party would take some work. There might be some political junkie Republicans, but is there enough of them to make a difference?

[BootinUp]

because

they're not voting for Dean? :)

j/k

It's a joke! laugh

[Mika]

28. That's what I was just thinking

"How do we know they are not Republicans!"


True dat. Its a fraudulent (and entirely possible) way to skew the stats. :puke:

Almost no point in watching this. :shrug:

[maddezmom]

10. thanks for the update

watching CSPAN1 on the net. Nothing so far on CNNI or BBC. :)

[bearfartinthewoods]

11. she said the previous caucus had 27 attending...quite a jump

in attendence
dems rule!!

[funky_bug]

13. UGH!

They just showed Dean people trashing Kerry, saying he looks tired and haggard.

Thanks for perpetrating, CSPAN.

[Clark4VotingRights]

16. Good attendence=good start to the primary season. Yes!

Go team.

[Eurobabe]

12. 51 people now

they just recounted

D -10
Kerry -23
Edwards-16
Geb -1
Clark -1

[Kathleen04]

23. Who did the Gephardt

supporter switch to?

The lady for Clark switched to Edwards.

[rolodomo]

26. I think he switched to Dean but not sure

LOL...Gep to Dean...o.k.

[spooky3]

I think he went to Edwards.

[rolodomo]

43. Wow...I know the Clark lady switched to Edwards...

so that make two pickups for Edwards. Not bad.

[rolodomo]

38. Wow, did the Edwards leader just grab somebody from...

another group??

[SadEagle]

15. How many delegates do they elect?

If it's only 1, they may need someone to get a majority. So may be Uncommited will win.

[never cry wolf]

30. I think it was like 8

Whereas the larger meeting ob CS-1 is selecting 20.

[Eurobabe]

18. need 8 to be viable

Geb and Clark not viable in this caucus. Join another group

[SadEagle]

24. thanks, answers my question above.

I am watching the other one, on C-SPAN1, but they are still letting people in.

[Eurobabe]

20. new count

Dean 11
Kerry 23
Edwards 17

Colonel Mustard in the dining room

[spooky3]

25. sorry I duped you--and it's a pretty dining room, isn't it?

lol to the Clue reference!

[Eurobabe]

27. arts and crafts home, lovely

[windansea]

21. yehawwwwwwwww n/t

[rolodomo]

31. Edward's Group: akward chit chat

Must be tough under the glare of the cameras

[question everything]

32. Many are going to the caucuses w/o choosing

CNN Lou Dobbs interviewed the editor of the DM Register and he said that many - don't remember the percentage - have not made up their minds, yet, will listen to other caucus members.

[Eurobabe]

33. double attendance since 2000

somebody wants bushyboy out!

[bobbieinok]

37. that's the great thing about caucus

you try to persuade others, they try to persuade you

and everyone goes to the undecided group

and since you're all neighbors, you in the group decide - you go to DK group, you to Sharpton, etc ----- you split up the tasks

[MidwestMomma]

41. This is like 'listening' to GD2004

Woohoo. I'm lovin' this!

[MidwestMomma]

36. there starting to break into preference groups on CSpan group

just an update

[wa state wanderer]

39. Just got home...

from work and turned on C-Span and DU. This is going to be an exciting night! Thanks for this wonderful forum!

[spooky3]

42. welcome to DU, wa state wanderer--there is another caucus on CSpan2.

[wa state wanderer]

47. Thanks for the welcome!

I'll get caught up here, I hope. This is great!

[spooky3]

40. Somebody needs to give that "he's a trial lawyer" guy our DU responses!

[MidwestMomma]

44. I know, it's funny hearing people arguing about the candidates

Guess we've been caucasing here for months!

[Endangered Specie]

46. They sound like us, just with a more modest tounge.

[Endangered Specie]

45. For those without cable but good internet....

You can watch Cspan 1 2 or 3 on the website (www.cspan.org) streaming audio or video WMP or Real.

I kinda liked how the Edwards gal stepped in the two other bickering captains of Dean and Kerry. Nice class... no wonder Edwards is doing so well.


Edit: grammar

[Feanorcurufinwe]

48. Do you have the rtsp url ?

I'm getting a 'General error' when I just follow the link.

[Endangered Specie]

50. http://play.rbn.com/?url=cspan/g2cspan/live/cspan2-g2.rm&proto=rtsp

Is this what you are looking for?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

52. No, that's

the link on the webpage, the rtsp link is the actual stream... but you know looking at realplayer it seems like there is no way to see it unless you typed it in in the first place... oh well..

[Endangered Specie]

53. Try the WMP maybe? I had no problem with Real player

Strange. Just keep trying, the site IS a little slow tonight.

[Endangered Specie]

49. "Bush Callers" harassing the Cspan 2 caucus

Why am I not suprised. If I got that harassment from bushites, id give them a little dressing down.

So much for manners.

[Terwilliger]

51. Now on C-SPAN2: Survivor: Iowa Democratic Party Caucus

;-)