Interesting experience to say the least.
I feel bad for the underdog candidates on the Dem side because if we would have done a straw pole Biden and Richardson and maybe even Dodd would have had a bigger piece of the pie. The way it works for Dems is we litterally stand in the corner of our candidate and if we have 15% of the room our candidate is viable. Viable means we get a delegate. Our presinct got 5 Deligates to split bteweenthe whole room. We had 222 people total in the room and we needed 34 people to make Biden viable. We only had 27 and nobody was moving. There were like 5 undecided and the Hillary people were giving them the crazy eye and hitting them with signs so I wasn't going over there. Biden actually had an OK percentage of the room but because we had to stand were someone was viable we had to move. So, in the media it looked like the underdogs didn't have the support that they really did. Oh well, either way Hillary didn't win and I feel ok about that.
By the way my Republican bretheren, Pat Robertson won Iowa when he was runnnig for president. So don't get that Oval office chair form fitted to Huckabee's butt just yet. John McCain won New Hampshire in 2004 so maybe he will again. And could someone please tell Thompson to put his bags away.
Did I mention how crazy Hillary's people were? They scared me.
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I really was interested in seeing of the "non-viable candidates" (like Biden) do better. I'm not a fan of the 15% viability rule that the Democrats use in Iowa Caucus. Not sure if that's nationwide or not. Probably, they think it makes the party look more unified and hurries along the drop out process. But, I think you might see more impressive numbers right at the 14% mark if things were divided like they have been this year.
For example, in last nights Republican caucus, McCain and Thompson tied for 3rd with 13% each. What would have happened if they weren't viable? I think it might have changes things considerably.
Anyway, just my thoughts.
At a co-worker's caucus, Hillary's people were going nuts because they weren't viable. I wish I could have seen that.
Hey the Hillary people at my caucus where nuts too. On a positive note, Biden did get a delegate from our caucus. Too little too late. Sad
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