when she ran against Obama.

but that's about all I expect from this jack***.

No matter how you try to spin this, Bernie has the momentum.

Momentum. Hillary had all the advantages but Bernie rose up.

Now, all of America will get to hear who Bernie is and what he's about. The more he speaks, the more he surges.

No need for spin here Steven.

but not in the Shakespearean sense.

For he is not "noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel! in apprehension how like a god!" In fact, he is quite the opposite.

Whatever gets you through the night.

while also extinguishing a plausible third alternative in the process.

a state tailor made for him

A state that is tailor made for him would not be a caucus state, at least not at this point in the campaign. That requires a large staff on the ground.

If this is their "A" game, it calls into question all that "electability" stuff.

Beyond that, given the solid trouncing Hillary is getting in Johnson County, can we finally acknowledge that she has a real fucking problem with Millennials?

And I even said that I'd have to watch how Sanders handles the campaigns in Iowa and New Hampshire before I made up my mind about him, should O'Malley withdraw. I'll be watching New Hampshire very carefully.

Last time I voted "strategically" in the primary was 2004, and I didn't like the way it turned out.

But out here we're, like, last or something anyway, so I don't hold out any great hope of having any real influence on the process beyond my donations and my loud internet complaints.

I hope (inshallah, seriously, inshallah) that the Presidential nomination is done at that point...

I hear ya, buddy.

if only because my district is staunch red anyway. Even if it was, I couldn't put a vote for Hillary.

49.8 to 49.6 is hardly "extinguishing" anything.

get an answer.

She did NOT win!! She's a liar!!! It's a tie.

But if writing this makes you feel better, enjoy

(I don't think I've ever posted that before.)

It's weak.

Thanks Iowans!

thanks for the laugh

Embarrassingly bad spin

Hoo boy.

p.s. he also just said he's the only candidate "on the Democratic side" who doesn't get help from a SuperPac. Au contraire, Senator:

http://www.americancrossroads.org/

Embarrassing. Shockingly poor propaganda

after blowing a massive lead in the polls your post sounds vaguely familiar Steven...

"We have destroyed a tank, a fighter plane, 2 helicopters and their shovels - We have driven them back."

--Baghdad Bob

here.

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on stage claiming victory before the vote is even over.

Maybe cool it on the "goddam woman" stuff. Otherwise I think I'm with you.

the "campaign staff" who declared her victory to the candidate, who purportedly is in charge of her campaign. Realizing that she can't control all events in the campaign, she is responsible for what happens. She spoke to the media after the declaration but failed to mention it. Likely on purpose.

I'll withdraw the wording of the assessment while reasserting that her behavior was presumptuous and unpresidential.

Isn't that the blogger who claimed Hillary was a liar unfit to be President?


Didn't he say:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_steven_l_080320_hillary_clinton_s_re.htm

Hillary gives a different opinion on the same subjects every couple of weeks depending on her audience and what she thinks it will net her. As evidence of this is now coming out and is going to be presented to the American people in the starkest terms, how can one be expected to trust her to do anything that she says she is going to do? How can one really know what she believes or intends to do about anything? The only things Hillary's experience seems to be good for is perfecting how to talk out of both sides of her mouth, engaging in the politics of personal destruction and other aspects of her ruthless pursuit of power that remind one of what a Karl Rove might do. That kind of person ought not to be the Democratic nominee.

Weep for the queen.

DOH

Good job Berners, don't let someone else's wet drawers get you down.

I've never seen one person blow that much smoke up his own ass. You are talented.

Last I checked, Cruz, Rubio and Carson scored 60% of the Republican vote. What, exactly, is it about Iowa's demographics that are tailor-made for a Sanders win?

Bernie Sanders made a statement. When was the last time a race was this close? This is in no way over. Hillary has a really tough road ahead of her. I am getting my popcorn ready. I am willing to bet there will be plenty more nail biters in our future.

Better keep some crews out there, Hillary FD.

Bwhahahahahaha!!!

demographically and ideologically.

as being the golden outsiders parachuting in to save America. That non-stop story will start fading, too.

about the long game. Iowa is not part of that. Bernie lost some mystique tonight since Iowa should have been a cakewalk.

for snark like you're doing that has been an accurate representation of what was actually discussed.

DO YOU EVEN READ WHAT YOU POST?

You guys still organizing on that other nasty site?

(rhetorical question)

Welcome to team Hillary!!

Take it somewhere else.

She had all the advantages, and started out with a 61-percent lead over an unknown challenger. She had the money. She had the party establishment vote. She had her name.

That she couldn't manage to eek out more than a virtual tie against the cranky old socialist is a totally embarrassing humiliation.

is a hack.

People get on H.A. Goodman a bunch on DU, but he really needs to read your linked blogger to learn how to become a real hack.

think about it: All the major newspapers, TV stations, pundits, Super Pacs, DNC, etc. shilling constantly for HIllary, and slandering, marginalizing, and trivializing Bernie. And, yet, he tied her! The supposed inevitable candidate! Bottom line: Bernie won. Iowa won. American won. Bernie is on the road to the nomination!

One of the first Iowa polls had it 69 percent Hillary to 7 percent for Bernie in Iowa.

A candidate who's been running for over ten years, with PACs and money up the wazoo and the unquestioned adoration of millions of people, starting with a 50-point lead, with full support of The Party's bigwigs, manages to eke out a .2% lead over a relatively unknown guy from a little state.

What a blowout!

Personally, I'd be friggin' ashamed if I couldn't do any better than that, given the advantage I'd started with.

Lots of good responses here, but you may have just won the thread!

Pretty much a dead heat in Iowa and what comes next? Well if the polls are right, what comes next is not 'probably' a Bernie win in New Hampshire, but an absolute landslide win in New Hampshire. So we head into Nevada (a state where the gap is closing all the time) with Bernie the name on all the medias lips.

The next few weeks should be fun.

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You're gonna have to explain the reasoning behind that statement to me.

That aside. Nothing was extinguished. The backdraft will catch you off guard if you aren't careful.

But it doesn't indicate that Clinton "won" anything but a game of chance

Sid

Bernie performed much better than expectations, compared to the corporate shill he's running against.