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[ToxicAdam]

The first step to a brokered GOP convention has been taken today, and I for one am ecstatic about it. The weaker they look the easier it's going to be for whichever shitty candidate the dems trot out to win and prevent any more retards in the vein of Scalito getting appointed to the Supreme Court

Are you still buying that old tripe?

I'll play like its 2000 too ... I'm not going to vote for any more tax and spend liberuls! I want to vote for someone that shares the same family values as me!

 

[Wes]

Got sky?

Check CNN EPG 506 and Faux News EPG 510

Nah my TV is busted at the mo, and I don't have Sky anyway!

This MSNBC stream doesn't seem too bad. The main host has great hair and his analyst co-anchor seems to have taken a pill.

 

[Stoney Mason]

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Not the night for your Romney...

 

[topsyturvy]

I'm not convince Huckabee is as much of an easy kill as GAF thinks he is.

Sorry but he's the john kerry of the republican party. :/

 

[SRG01]

Only 25% of Republican precincts are reporting and they're calling it already... it drives me nuts when they do this

25% is usually enough to call it with acceptable error, unless multiple counties report something drastically different.

 

[speculawyer]

With Huckabee as President bring on the concentration camps for anyone that's not white and christian.

Now that is sarcasm, but he did say . . .

Huckabee, as a Senate candidate that year, told The Associated Press that "we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague" if the federal government was going to deal with the spread of the disease effectively. "It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents," he said then.

Camps for HIV positive?

 

[perfectchaos007]

Giuliani just passed Ron Paul FUCK

 

[topsyturvy]

Unless you're Ron Paul. Nobody on the right is gonna want him as his VP.

thats why romney will likely get the VP. :/

 

[Lost Fragment]

Giuliani just surged from 4% to 11%. Past Paul.

Digg is gonna be interesting tonight.

 

[Tobor]

Sorry but he's the john kerry of the republican party. :/

I sincerely hope you're right. Evangelicals scare the piss out of me. I can't deal with 4 more years of fire and brimstone.

 

[JohnTinker]

Sorry but he's the john kerry of the republican party. :/

Huckabee is the Hillary of the GOP

 

[Gary Whitta]

Giuliani just passed Ron Paul FUCK

Ron Paul only exists on the internet.

 

[Ether_Snake]

Are you sure about that?

Who carried George W. Bush to victory in two elections? Evangelicals. Take them out of the picture and Democrats probably win in 2000 and 2004 half awake.

Who does Huckabee attract? Evangelicals. Romney or even McCain would probably make evangelicals feel divided and that would put Democrats at a serious advantage. Huckabee looks to be the guy who won't let evangelicals down when just a couple months ago, they figured Rudy was the likely nominee, and not too happy about it.

Money carried Bush to victory. He's a Bush, they can raise a lot of money from the right people. A candidate needs "the right people" to win, and that's not really the electorate. Clinton has it, Obama too to some good extent. On the Republican's side this time they had a very weak lineup, but Giuliani would have been the proper candidate to win, in that sense, but he couldn't get the support to begin with. So what we are getting now was pretty much inevitable. There was just no strong candidate who could also get the support from the same people who backed Bush and are backing Hilary.

 

[kassatsu]

40% reporting

Huckabee
14,045
31%

Romney
10,084
23%

Thompson
5,950
13%

McCain
5,194
12%

Giuliani
4,901
11%

Paul
4,379
10%

Hunter
168
0%

 

[Lemonz]

Senator Barack Obama : 34.52%
Senator John Edwards : 31.61%
Senator Hillary Clinton : 31.13%
Governor Bill Richardson : 1.69%
Senator Joe Biden : 0.98%
Senator Chris Dodd : 0.04%
Uncommitted : 0.03%
Precincts Reporting: 1000 of 1781

 

[Tamanon]

Wow, how the hell did Giuliani make up that much ground suddenly? Odd.....

 

[perfectchaos007]

41% reporting

Mike Huckabee 31%
Mitt Romney 23%
Fred Thompson 13%
John McCain 12%
Rudy Giuliani 11%
Ron Paul 10%
Duncan Hunter 0%


FUCK FUCK FUCK

 

[Rodeo Clown]

Giuliani just surged from 4% to 11%. Past Paul.

Digg is gonna be interesting tonight.

I'm sure Digg will count Ron Paul's potentially 5th or 6th place showing as a moral victory.

 

[SRG01]

Ron Paul only exists on the internet.

As much as I was interested in Ron Paul in the beginning, it's evident that he's really a one-trick pony after the 3rd interview or so. He really does say the same thing over and over again. Unfortunately, the internet him for some reason.

 

[npm0925]

Someone explain to me this Huckabee hate?

Right wingers hate him because they're no longer able to swindle the christian voters by having swine like Falwell and Dobson bless the candidate they designate.

 

[Lost Fragment]

41% reporting

Mike Huckabee 31%
Mitt Romney 23%
Fred Thompson 13%
John McCain 12%
Rudy Giuliani 11%
Ron Paul 10%
Duncan Hunter 0%


FUCK FUCK FUCK

:lol

 

[JohnTinker]

Giuliani just passed Ron Paul FUCK

Giuliani just surged from 4% to 11%. Past Paul.

Digg is gonna be interesting tonight.

ahahaha

 

[Enron]

LOLZ.

 

[SRG01]

Giuliani just surged from 4% to 11%. Past Paul.

Reddit is gonna be interesting tonight.

Fixed. As much as I love Reddit, that place gets a bit rabid sometimes.

 

[Grecco]

Sorry but he's the john kerry of the republican party. :/

You mean mitt rommney right?

 

[Y2Kev]

So will this end the Paulite attack on the internet?

 

[avaya]

Obama will totally own Des Moines precincts.

So is Obama winning Iowa significant?

 

[TheKingsCrown]

Wow looks like Obama has it. Does anyone else think that this time, Iowa might not tell the whole story of what is to happen?

 

[Gary Whitta]

Just what we need as President, a Southern baptist preacher. Thank God I still have my UK passport.

 

[valkillmore]

Ron Paul only exists on the internet.

LOL that's funny as fuck :lol

 

[Ulairi]

I was hoping Thompson would do better and surprise people with a second place victory. If he drops out, I'm going to Obama.

 

[Rodeo Clown]

So will this end the Paulite attack on the internet?

No. Now the Paulites will waste even more money on his campaign so he can come in 5th or 6th in New Hampshire.

 

[topsyturvy]

Huckabee is the Hillary of the GOP

unless a sex tape appears with hillary in it, A huckabee/hillary debate would be a slaughter fest of epic proportions. :lol

 

[VALIS]

59% reporting
Obama 426 35%
Edwards 387 31%
Clinton 381 31%


The Obama Hype Train is leaving the station tonight. I'm for Edwards, but what the hell, I'll get on board. Better than Hillary.

 

[Lost Fragment]

I think Paul is still doing extremely well, all things considered. Giuliani is only barely above him, and he has more name recognition and has had a lot more media exposure.

Though hopefully this will wake the Paulites up to the fact that they're just a very vocal minority.

 

[scorcho]

I was hoping Thompson would do better and surprise people with a second place victory. If he drops out, I'm going to Obama.

what planet are you on?

 

[MetatronM]

So will this end the Paulite attack on the internet?

Not at all. Paul has the best chance to do anything in the New Hampshire primary, I'd say.

Once he comes in 5th or 6th there, then it will start to die out.

 

[speculawyer]

Fred Thompson 13%
John McCain 12%
Rudy Giuliani 11%
Ron Paul 10%

Wow, tight race for 4th place.

 

[PhoenixDark]

Not the night for your Romney...

The ellipses is back

I'm shocked at this blowout. I still figured Romney's money and organization would give him Iowa, even after the Huckabee surge. Damn he just got steamrolled

 

[Tamanon]

unless a sex tape appears with hillary in it, A huckabee/hillary debate would be a slaughter fest of epic proportions. :lol

Yeah, Hilary wouldn't stand a chance.

Debates surely are not her strength at all.

 

[topsyturvy]

Obama will totally own Des Moines precincts.

So is Obama winning Iowa significant?

yep, it would help him to grab the nomination at the DNC.

 

[perfectchaos007]

Not at all. Paul has the best chance to do anything in the New Hampshire primary, I'd say.

Once he comes in 5th or 6th there, then it will start to die out.

February 5th is the magic date

 

[JohnTinker]

Obama will totally own Des Moines precincts.

So is Obama winning Iowa significant?

If you're in the Hillary camp, no.

 

[Liu Kang Baking A Pie]

Unfortunately, the internet [likes Ron Paul] for some reason.

The guy is honest and consistent, has a history of votes to show for it, and doesn't bend over for lobbyists and corporations. He's also the only anti-war Republican, and that means a lot for people that think the party lost its way.

I'll be voting for him, but anyone that thought he had any chance beyond just starting a small change in Americans minds' is short-sighted. They're kind of like the kids that only watch anime and then write angry letters to Cartoon Network when they butcher a show or cancel something that they feel is more popular than it really is.

 

[camineet]

Hillary is losing, 3rd place

- MSNBC Andrea Mitchell: "it's a serious setback for her" YAY!

 

[FilosopherStoner]

Please tell me I wrong, but are elderly people really counting random pieces of paper with peoples scribble of a name to count votes?

 

[KingGondo]

unless a sex tape appears with hillary in it, A huckabee/hillary debate would be a slaughter fest of epic proportions. :lol

If 2004 taught me anything, it's that "success" in debates can be utterly meaningless. I thought Kerry utterly dominated in 2004, but simply knowing the facts and appearing to be articulate aren't enough. I would expect Huckabee to stick to his core message much like Bush, and he has the added benefit of being much more charismatic than Bush.

 

[MetatronM]

Wow looks like Obama has it. Does anyone else think that this time, Iowa might not tell the whole story of what is to happen?

I think Obama has a very good chance to take the Democratic nomination. I do think winning Iowa would give him enough of a bump in NH to more or less close any gap there between himself and Clinton and effectively make that a deadheat.

If he can take both Iowa and New Hampshire, I think the Democrat race would be close to being over.

 

[Enron]

They're kind of like the kids that only watch anime and then write angry letters to Cartoon Network when they butcher a show or cancel something that they feel is more popular than it really is.

Huh? I think you more accurately described a Ron Paul supporter there.

 

[speculawyer]

Just what we need as GOP candidate, a Southern baptist preacher.

Fixed. Huck won't win.