based on 2008 figures, will meet in about 800 locations across Iowa to toast ethanol subsidies and cast a preferential presidential vote?preferential as in non-binding.
It’s far too much ado about picking the next president.
We’re told that the caucuses are important because they can reveal candidates’ strengths and weaknesses. And their craziness, too.
The prospect that Rep. Ron (“Terrorists are people too”) Paul may win is fueling the hype. A Paul win would prove, among other things, that they should stop allowing Democrats and Independents to crash the party by registering as Republicans on caucus night.
Iowa caucuses are a political “Field of Dreams” for Democrat saboteurs and Occupy Wall Street squatters who can walk out of the cornfield onto the Republican field and throw the game to the Lion of Leftist Libertarianism. A win would encourage Paul to run as a third-party candidate, assuring Barack Obama’s re-election in the spirit of crazy Uncle Ross Perot who put Bill Clinton in the White House.
According to John Swain of the UK Telegraph:
“Thousands of members of Barack Obama's Democrats, disenchanted but with no contest of their own, are set to turn out at caucus sites on Tuesday to do just that.
Almost one in four caucus-goers is expected to be an independent or Democrat, according to a Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey.
Polls suggest that even the unearthing of newsletters produced by Dr Paul in the 1990s containing homophobic and anti-semitic material have not hurt him. "People just don't believe he is racist," said Tom.