Iowa Caucuses Thread

[Alpo]

You're trolling pudly. Don't you have more productive things to occupy your time today? I'm going to the beach and get something with rum in it.

Tata.

 

[IndyDave1776]

You're trolling pudly. Don't you have more productive things to occupy your time today? I'm going to the beach and get something with rum in it.

Tata.

Are you going to buy a drink or diddle a drunk beach bimbo?

 

[jamil]

I don't fallow. I've already seen that father/son photo in whatever pictures threads it was posted.

 

[churchmouse]

Be nice boys. Be nice.

 

[pudly]

You're trolling pudly. Don't you have more productive things to occupy your time today?

Quoting your posts is trolling?

 

[Alpo]

80 degrees, warm sand. A Cuba Libre. Now....what was the question?

 

[Expat]

Interesting he used Occupy in his post....

 

[jamil]

80 degrees, warm sand. A Cuba Libre. Now....what was the question?

Beach. 80 degrees. Warm sand. Cuba Libre? And you're on INGO? And you're saying something about how we spend OUR time?

 

[churchmouse]

Beach. 80 degrees. Warm sand. Cuba Libre? And you're on INGO? And you're saying something about how we spend OUR time?

 

[Libertarian01]

That we don't vote until it's usually decided anyway is what bothers me most about the primary/caucus system.

I'll leave the other stuff alone. We've already beat that horse to death.

I cannot agree more!!! Many millions of voters are always disenfranchised by the time the primary gets to them. This is easily fixable.

If for some silly a** reason Iowa has to be first - fine. Let Iowa be the first Monday in February, THEN make EVERY OTHER STATE the first Tuesday in February.

We do it with the regular election. What would be wrong with doing it with the primaries?

Regards,

Doug

 

[Lowe0]

I cannot agree more!!! Many millions of voters are always disenfranchised by the time the primary gets to them. This is easily fixable.

If for some silly a** reason Iowa has to be first - fine. Let Iowa be the first Monday in February, THEN make EVERY OTHER STATE the first Tuesday in February.

We do it with the regular election. What would be wrong with doing it with the primaries?

Regards,

Doug

I'd prefer that they rotate by region, 8 states every two weeks for 12 weeks, 1 week in Alaska, 1 in Hawaii. That'd let candidates spend less time flying between states and more time in front of the voters. Every presidential election, rotate the first region to the back of the list (excl. Alaska or Hawaii). That way, most of the country gets to go "first" once every 24 years.

 

[jamil]

I cannot agree more!!! Many millions of voters are always disenfranchised by the time the primary gets to them. This is easily fixable.

If for some silly a** reason Iowa has to be first - fine. Let Iowa be the first Monday in February, THEN make EVERY OTHER STATE the first Tuesday in February.

We do it with the regular election. What would be wrong with doing it with the primaries?

Regards,

Doug

Why do we even need primaries? That's partly the mechanism that ensures the two party system. I think a better system would have candidates with party backing or not, and they all run in a general election. And then we elect the president/vice president using ranked voting. Top ranked gets president. Second place gets vice president.

 

[T.Lex]

Why do we even need primaries? That's partly the mechanism that ensures the two party system. I think a better system would have candidates with party backing or not, and they all run in a general election. And then we elect the president/vice president using ranked voting. Top ranked gets president. Second place gets vice president.

Oy vey. Check out European multi-party elections for a flavor of how that would work. Or, even better, think about who California and New York would chose for [strike]senator[/strike] president.

Now, if we want to re-revolutionize elections, let's go back to the original way of determining senators.

 

[printcraft]

You're trolling pudly. Don't you have more productive things to occupy your time today? I'm going to the beach and get something with rum in it.

Tata.

I love those.

 

[IndyDave1776]

Why do we even need primaries? That's partly the mechanism that ensures the two party system. I think a better system would have candidates with party backing or not, and they all run in a general election. And then we elect the president/vice president using ranked voting. Top ranked gets president. Second place gets vice president.

We found out the hard way that this doesn't work worth a damn. As a vice-president elected under this method, Jefferson was virtually excluded from government while Adams was president.

Anyone who can collect a requisite number of signatures can be on the general election ballot as it is, and if they can't then it is very easy to argue that they have no chance whatsoever thus justifying their exclusion from the ballot. After all, in Indiana with less than 10K signatures, I could be on the ballot.

 

[T.Lex]

Tata.

I love those.

Seriously, not even INGO could make this stuff up.
Tata to rename Zica car over virus woes - BBC News

 

[IndyDave1776]

Seriously, not even INGO could make this stuff up.
Tata to rename Zica car over virus woes - BBC News

At least they are paying attention. Just think of how many more Chevys could have been sold in Spanish-speaking countries had GM invested the small modicum of attention to realize that Nova means 'it doesn't go' in Spanish doing sales no favors whatsoever.

 

[Alpo]

Beach. 80 degrees. Warm sand. Cuba Libre? And you're on INGO? And you're saying something about how we spend OUR time?

There is a lot of time between beach babes. Only about 1 in 4 should be wearing a bikini anyway. A couple could do with a harpoon.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Bernie Sanders alleges voter fraud: Close caucus results lead to claims of fraud | WQAD.com

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Scott Brown is endorsing Trump

No one knows how to win New Hampshire like Scott Brown. Not even Scott Brown.