caucus-goers who chose "uncommitted."

It worked exactly how it's spposed to work: Obama got the delegates (since not a large enough percentage of people chose "uncommitted" to earn any delegates), and caucus-goers got to voice their opinion when they chose their preference group (and these folks can still vote for Obama in the general).

Democracy in action.

Thanks!

It's wall-to-wall clown car circus all over the local news sites.

I can't find one anywhere, so far

I can't find anything yet - it's all about the nutbar-fest.

Where is that person who tried talking him up?

Another is still here.

I wonder what the turnout was for Democrats tonight.

I will try to find the link.

Link
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002114639

Every damn minute on the TV is gop gop gop B.S. and not one word about the Democratic caucus or Obama! Grrr

But who wants to be fair to a guy named "Darcy"?

No really, Obama was running uncontested in Iowa. If there were uncommitteds in the room, I believe they had to form a group that comprised at least 15% of the caucus goers there, otherwise, "uncommitted" is considered not viable, and the people have to find another candidate (Obama being the only one), or leave.

Obviously, Mr. Uncommitted did not get the requisite 15%.

FYI: Democrats do not "vote" with ballots in the Iowa caucus like Republicans do. It's all about forming groups of supporters, and then just counting heads.

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Frazzled is right. Richardson didn't campaign in Iowa. In fact, he had instructed his supporters in the state shortly after Thanksgiving to support the Occupy Iowa and Healthcare Not Warfare efforts to elect "Uncommitted" delegates in last night's precinct caucuses. Richardson reiterated that message this past weekend during an appearance on WSUM 91.7, the University of Wisconsin’s student radio station in Madison.

http://www.uncoveredpolitics.com/2012/01/02/richardson-joins-call-for-uncommitted-slate-in-iowa-caucus/

Since the Iowa Democratic Party has been so slow and reluctant in releasing results from last night's caucuses, it's difficult to say how successful the uncommitted effort might have been. Based on the returns from one Iowa City caucus that were widely tweeted early last night, President Obama received 55 votes while 17 caucus-goers voted for uncommitted.

Incredibly, nearly a quarter of those in attendance apparently wanted to send our party's center-right President a message.

Based on that somewhat embarrassing showing, it's little wonder why some Democratic party officials in Iowa wanted to suppress the statewide results last night — a kind of indefinite detention applied to democracy.

Sadly, we'll probably never know the true level of discontent expressed by last night's Democratic caucus-goers.

Cenk and the rest of the clowns will have their revenge on the evil, antichrist, socialist, antiprogressive Barack Hussein Obama!!!