Still marvelous to think that 110,000 people voted in the Iowa Republican caucus, yet it will be interpreted as sending a significant message about America. That's less than a third of the population of Bydgoszcz. (if your response is "where?" then you are making my point)
@ElBeeToots@anneapplebaum I was just "old man yells at clouds" when our 6pm bulletin reported it as a surprising landslide.
No, it was simply exactly what the polling suggested would happen and entirely meaningless.
With some apologies to Iowa natives who aren't racist fascists, it was simply a bunch of racist fascists choosing their preferred dog-whistling candidate.
If you poll well in Iowa, you probably poll well with other non-college-educated, rural, Christian evangelical voters.
@BernardSheppard@ElBeeToots@anneapplebaum@bobjmsn And it was only Republicans… hopefully there’s enough sensible Americans to send that fascist swine to the dustbin of history via a federal prison in November.
@anneapplebaum Yeah, Iowa is one of those not very smart states (Yes, I live there.) and the caucus numbers are bound to be over-analyzed and talked about, et cetera, but fortunately there is a healthy distribution of smart people in there as well whose voices probably won't be heard for a while yet. But I firmly believe that the PhDs and cosmologists and researchers and so on can usually organize pretty well against the crowd of guys named Cleatus and Vern and Cooter.
@anneapplebaum exactly! There are 3.19 million people, 1.9 million are registered voters. 110, 000 Republicans only turned out for the Iowa caucus and of that number 51% voted Trump as their party candidate. Media reporting needs to be contextual and objective. Is the media is committing the same “blunder” of the past? Is this a feature of the current race for ratings $$$
@anneapplebaum If Iowa caucuses were statistically representative of US voter demographics, I’d pay attention to them. But they aren’t. At all. They skew so so heavily white and rural it's ridiculous, even for Republicans. Well over half of Americans live in metro areas with a million or more people. Iowa does not have one. Iowa's diversity index is 31%, according to the Census Bureau. US is 61%.
@anneapplebaum it’s not even 20% of the population of Ocean County New Jersey. Hell, there are more Republicans in Ocean County than voted in the Iowa Caucuses.
There are 5 counties in NJ with larger populations than Ocean.
There are 3 other counties in very blue NJ that also have more Republicans.
The story that should have come out of Iowa is that a fascist movement has taken hold there.
A caucus is NOT a vote!. There is a straw poll, but it isn't done in a way that can be counted as meaningful. A caucus is about selecting delegates, and most of the people gold home after the straw poll.
@anneapplebaum There are roughly 70 million Americans that voted for the orange tinted tyrant in 2020. If that number increases in 2024, what happened in Iowa will be meaningless.
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