2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe "HRC has Iowa won" threads are meant to discourage turnout...ignore them.
The truth is, Iowa is too close to call. If you support Bernie and live in Iowa, ignore all threads here that try to tell you that Iowa is out of reach.
Everything is up for grabs in Iowa. Everything is too close to call. Please go to your caucus site.
Any one of you could be the vote that changes history.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)Metric System
(6,048 posts)KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)I'm guessing that is the point.
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)This has been the campaign tactic for a couple of weeks now. She couldn't win on the issues so she's been doing everything to depress people from supporting Bernie (His policies won't pass blah blah blah). Go out and vote.
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)There's no reason to think there aren't lots of Iowans on DU.
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)For posters to discourage turnout to any meaningful degree, a MAJOR number of DUers would have to:
A. Live in Iowa
B. Plan to caucus for Sanders
(10% would be 27,000 DUers)
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)And it's not just about the Du'er herself or himself. It's about the people that Du'er knows and talks too.
In any case, we've already established that a lot of Du'ers are pro-Bernie. Those of you on the right wing of the party always use things like that do dismiss DU anyway(which begs the question of why you still post here if you think DU is irrelevant, but that's for another day).
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)It would mean that there enough of them there to influence the perception of whether it's worth it or not to show up at the caucuses at all.
Your responses here have basically been strawmen.
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)There is no possible way to "show you the math".
BTW, if what I'm saying is absurd, why do you feel the need to spend so much time trying to prove it? If DU was really irrelevant to what's going to happen tonight, logically you'd be ignoring this thread.
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)Entertainment
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)(give me a set-up, and I'll take it, buddy).
Luciferous
(6,082 posts)wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)BigGLiberal
(102 posts)Will Iowa caucus goers be reading DU from their cell phones or what?
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Iowans are as wired as anyone else.
Young people in Iowa especially.
BigGLiberal
(102 posts)Okay.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I said it's as much part of the conversation as anything else.
(if it wasn't, you wouldn't post here yourself and you wouldn't disparage DU when the majority of DU'ers disagree with you).
Trajan
(19,089 posts)Who would want such a friend?
Gone ...
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Everybody.
Nanjeanne
(4,961 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)"Suppressing Voter Turnout For Over A Decade"
Nope. Don't think that slogan works.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Weird thing to say about oneself.
Then again, as any David Lynch film teaches us, nobody is really "normal" at all.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)... want our own type of revolutions inside the DNC and the rest of the country.
Sanders says start over, burn the fucker down...
Clinton says work with what we got...
We'll see, I still think we're arguing over damn good and perfect... GOP has no choices
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)There is no good reason for any stripe of progressive to try to equate activism with "abnormality". The idea that it's abnormal to be politically aware is a right-wing trope meant to discourage political involvement by equating it with weirdness.
senz
(11,945 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)It is obviously an attempt to keep people from coming.
Sweet people aren't they?
cui bono
(19,926 posts)Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)They're out at their caucus area.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)And those who are are already at their caucus locations.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)They're a moron. Seriously.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)Pretty sure with so much up for grabs just about anything and everything will be tried. Here at DU, this kind tactic did not just start today, it's been going on for over a few weeks here at DU.