Huckabee and Obama Win Iowa

[PrezLeefun]

Ok so thanks to AOL.....

http://news.aol.com/elections/primary/state/ia

I have seen the real numbers.

With 2,497 votes for democrats out of 2,926,324

and with 116,114 out of 2,926,324 for Republicans.

I have concluded the folks of Iowa are mostly smart noting that republicans are clearly better than democrats.

I cant draw anymore clearly positive conclusions.......

[Elgalad]

These numbers are misleading..

If I understand it correctly (from my Dad and Brother), the Republicans get one vote per attendee..

But the Dems did their caucus differently.. you had to build a 'caucus' of 15% of attendees in each precinct to warrant one vote for a given candidate.

So each Dem precinct only got 6 votes max.

That explains the disparity.


-Elgalad

[Rhino]

Iowa is weird.

[Rhino]

I wonder what ever happened to the other 4% of Republican precincts.

[PrezLeefun]

These numbers are misleading..

If I understand it correctly (from my Dad and Brother), the Republicans get one vote per attendee..

But the Dems did their caucus differently.. you had to build a 'caucus' of 15% of attendees in each precinct to warrant one vote for a given candidate.

So each Dem precinct only got 6 votes max.

That explains the disparity.


-Elgalad


Did you go to the link? Because the votes I counted were individual votes... I am not sure of what numbers you are refering to.

[Rhino]

Iowa has something like 1800 precincts. The dems said they had a turnout of about 227,000. The Republicans said they had a turnout of about 120,000. So it appears Elgalad has a valid point, But as I said earlier, Iowa is weird.

[Lazarus]

Iowa?!!!! Man........ That is sooooooo yesterday... :D

[Neil Peart]

Huckabee? Gag me.

[PrezLeefun]

*Prez begins stuff dirty socks in NP's mouth* just kidding.

[Rhino]

Prez, are you supporting Huck?

[Neil Peart]

*Prez begins stuff dirty socks in NP's mouth* just kidding.Hey, if you want to vote for Jimmy Carter V2, go ahead.

[jayson]

Yeah, those numbers aren't correct. Obama had more votes than Huckabee, Romney, McCain and Thompson combined if I remember correctly.