And the winners is….
Once again, Iowa demonstrated their schizophrenic divide between Republican Evangelicals and reality-based life forms. As gratifying as it was to see the Donald go down en flambé watching Cruz ooze his way through a victory speech – I could only watch because I quickly muted it until Hillary came on – nearly made my gorge rise.
That, and playing my own drinking game solo.
As for Hillary, what can we say? She became the first Clinton ever to win the Iowa Caucus. And it was a win, however narrow. Iowa being half outside the space-time continuum – like Glocca Morra or Brigadoon – in 2012 Mitt Romney woke up the winner, Santorum actually won a few days later, but months into the future, Ron Paul actually got most of the delegates while no one was looking. With that as our template, Martin O’Malley will be able to swagger into the convention with Iowa in his pocket.
Nevertheless, for the purposes of our game, we are going with the outcomes as they now stand.
Cruz 27.7%, Trump 24.3, Rubio 23.1, Carson 9.3, Paul 4.5, Bush 2.8, Fiorina-Kasich-Huckabee-Christie just south of 2%, and your 2012 winner Santorum limps in as a rounding error, the wrong kind of 1-percenter.
Clinton 49.9%, Sanders 49.6% and O’Malley Oh-Point-Six.
Very few customers hit the Daily Double, much less the double trifecta. Folks in the running include
Scott Bidstrup: Cruz 54, Trump 51 (I adjusted for snark) and Hillary 51, Bernie 48
PDiddie: Cruz 26, Trump 23 Rubio 20, and Clinton 53, Bernie 47
Maria: Cruz 38, Trump 35, Rubio 26 and Clinton 54, Sanders 46
And so we congratulate PDiddie, pundit extraordinaire, as our winner! P, you have the admiration of your fellow salon customers, and here on February 2, you are crowned Political Groundhog of the Week. (Does the “P” stand for “Punxsatawney?”)
Study up for next week!
~Primo
I’m guessing Trump wins yesterday in a landslide after shooting wingnut iowa guv Terrence Braindead dead on MLK Avenue in downtown Des Moines(french words). Or else I hallucinated on muscle relaxers while laid up with back spasms.
1Congratulations to PDiddie!
Should we be happy with the Iowa results? Iowa has posted up such luminaries as Huckabee and Santorum. Here’s to hoping there’s a special Iowa Curse for snacilbupeR.
Not liking what seems to be the media/snacilbupeR game plan for Sec/Sen Clinton and Sen Sanders. The attacks on Sec/Sen Clinton portend to vicious and evil; more so than in the past. While Sen Sanders is being treated to an unprecedented dismissive pile from the media.
2I’ve tried and tried and in the few short months I’ve been following JJ, I just can’t figure out what snacilbupeR stands for. Please, please reveal.
3treehugger: we tend towards the inscrutable. Hold it up to the mirror. redruM!
It’s so they won’t know that we’re talking about them.
I forget whom to credit with that one, but it wasn’t me. PKM? Was this your doing?
4daChipster, the credit for snacilbupeR belongs to Micr.
5LOL thank you! I was sure the country was in for catastrophe when Shrub was elected, but this 2016 crop of Republicans has me truly frightened. I am worried about whether either Dem is electable given the growing lynch-mob mentality in America.
6I know what it means, but am not sure how it’s pronounced.
7SNACK-ill-boop-er?
It’s like what the neurologist does when he/she makes you spell “world” backwards only longer. and I thought all this time that EEGs were just to see if there was any reception going on inside.
8Read the latest smart alecking in the NYT between my favorite Gail Collins and her buddy from the American Enterprise Institute. Wish I could follow her around some time.
9treehugger, I knew it was a disaster when Reagan was elected. Then Dubya (not elected but shoved in anyway) was worse. And now we have Trump and Cruz slugging it out for the top of the ticket. I wouldn’t have thought it possible for the GOP to keep sliding down into the morass of right-wing insanity, but somehow they keep sinking deeper into the muck.
10What was the Dem turn out last night in comparison to the last time Iowa had a presidential caucus?
11Nay nay Nanette
12snacilbupeR belongs to one Gregory Perry from this site on October 19, 2015 at 7:48 am. I had seen it around the same time on Democratic Underground, but I poked at Gregory Perry then. And yes I adore the word. snacilbupeR.
Well pronunciation-wise, when I read it I say “a$$backwards Republicans”.
13@Rhea: that Joe the Un-plumber keeps surfacing as a wanna be now and then…thinking that will be scraping the barrel bottom, myself.
14Looks like the Hillary Clinton Campaign aka DNC is feeling the Bern. LOL
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