Iowa Caucus Coverage

[chance1]

Watching MSNBC now ...............

Rachel Maddow is hosting

it's a fucking laugh fest - laughing at Republicans

Lawrence O'Donnell
Al Sharpton - OMG - how can he be there ???
Ed Schultz - he's looks very uncomfortable unless he's talking in which case I'm uncomfortable
and an unknown middle aged bald guy - have never seen him before

I've watched for 10 minutes and it's just a diatribe against the Repubs

They're talking about Ron Paul now - not in a good way

 

[chance1]

Peter Alexander is at the Romney Camp

very good looking guy

oh yeah - MSNBC coverage

he says Romney has sent out his (good looking also) 4 sons to caucus as well as Ann (wife who has MS)

Romney is buying ad time in Florida
370,000 absentee ballots requested already in Florida

Rachel is referencing Newt Gingrich's complaint about attack ads
Andrea Mitchell is up now talking about it - Newt is targeting Romney - says he will have a target on his back

Newt is gonna attack Romney in NH - what a dope - NH is in the bag
Newt is losing it

 

[JayQueer]

Well Rachel Maddow is a very one-sided journalist. She obviously only trumpets the liberal point-of-view, and then smirks when covering the conservative side of the matter.

She is very intelligent though. I give you that. And openly lesbian.

This election season is going to be very exciting!

Saddle up, bois...........we're in for a rocky ride!!

 

[swerve]

MSNBC is as BAD on the Left as FOX is on the Right...

I'm not sure how you can stomach it...

Do you not get CNN???

 

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Chris Matthews is on with Eugene Robinson (Wash Post) and Howard Fineman

on MSNBC

3 liberals ...............

ever hear the joke .....

what are 3 liberals at the bottom of the ocean?

answer: a good start

Fineman just said Bachman is being pushed to quit by her followers - she is likely to do it - and get behind santorum

 

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rachel just announced gary johnson would drop out and back Paul

couple minutes later she says ......

it's a hoax

they got hookwinked

al sharpton just mispronounced santorum's name

then he said "he has somewhere to grow" and he meant to "go"

he calls romney "mr. romney"

somebody pull his chair out from under him

puhleez

 

[chance1]

MSNBC is as BAD on the Left as FOX is on the Right...

I'm not sure how you can stomach it...

Do you not get CNN???

i only watch cnn at the gym

on my TW service at home i don't know the channel - its 70 something

 

[chance1]

more gaffes from sharpton

and the group on msnbc is really playing up santorum - they love it - they want him to win

"nbc says too close to call"

mitt - crazy uncle ron - gay hating rick

too close to call

 

[chance1]

Joe Trippi (Howard Dean's mgr while back) + karl rove with chris wallace on fox

karl rove is like rainman - has all the #s in his head

chris wallace is very good

wallace is dissing romney a bit - seems personal

trippi says mitt doesn't want a 1:1 fight - wants to keep the # of candidates high

wallace says romney is a weak frontrunner

rove is fighting him on it

says reagan did not win iowa

trippi is just glad he's with chris wallace not sean hannity

 

[chance1]

trippi says "how santorum handles this success" is critical

that most people don't really know who he is - insiders do but nationally they don't

where does santorum go after this???

trippi says fractured field helps romney

rove is saying santorum is disadvantaged - should he go to NH???

 

[chance1]

Indies
48% Paul

Late deciders
32% Santorum
22% Romney
18 Gingrich
10 Perry

18% decided TODAY

21% total in - romney/paul/rick - virtual tie

who is the true conservative?
paul 40
santorum 34

all per Fox

 

[JayHawk]

Well a three way goes to Romney as he will take New Hampshire and likely take Florida.

 

[MLSFreak]

I'm thinking that after tonight, Michele Bachman will actually drop out. Not sure how she can make a convincing argument to stay in. Perry will probably stay in at least until S.C. where I think he may do better compared to Iowa. It'll be interesting to see who is in second place in N.H., that's assuming Romney comes in first.

 

[Kulindahr]

And I'm stuck with Jeopardy....

ever hear the joke .....

what are 3 liberals at the bottom of the ocean?

answer: a good start

Only if they're each chained to a white supremacist.

rachel just announced gary johnson would drop out and back Paul

couple minutes later she says ......

it's a hoax

they got hookwinked

Good lord -- that's a huge one! He dropped out of the Republican race last year.

Okay, that was last week, too.

And Paul wouldn't be likely to take Johnson's support, anyway -- he still hates Gary for even getting in the race.

 

[Just_Believe18]

Michelle Bachmann, where is your miracle!?!?

Early predictions:

Michelle Bachmann is done. Expect to see her withdraw from the primary very soon.

Rick Perry is a maybe, but I think he'll give it one more shot.

I would be thrilled if Santorum ended up winning this in a surprise upset. I will tip my hat to chance1 on this one if it happens.

 

[Kulindahr]

Michelle Bachmann, where is your miracle!?!?

She got it, it just wasn't the one she wanted: her followers are telling her to drop out.

If she'd done that a week ago, Santorum might be ahead of Romney right now.

 

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Paul gets 3rd place - 21%

Romney and Santorum at 25% - within 200 votes of each other

wow

Paul is talking to his supporters (Fox is covering)

he looks really old

 

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Newt is talking to his followers now .......

he came in 4th - 13% - beat Perry (10%)

he's dropped quickly but is taking a full page ad in NH newspaper tomorrow skewering romney

romney is up by 13 votes - 92% reporting

 

[chance1]

^ newt is talking about negative ads - he's sick of them

he just congratulated rick santorum - who waged a great POSITIVE campaign

that's a diss on Romney and Paul

says Repubs need to fight it out BEFORE taking on Obama

work vs. redistribution
paychecks not food stamps

he congratulated Ron Paul
says his foreign policy views are stunningly dangerous for the US

 

[chance1]

OMG

Newt just said Romney will be able to "manage the decay" of America

wow