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Iowa Caucuses: Vote your choice today
1/03/08 | Self

Posted on 01/03/2008 5:33:21 AM PST by Nextrush

Show up and vote today in Iowa, friends.

At the GOP caucuses vote your choice.

If I lived there I'd vote my conscience for Duncan Hunter with Fred T second.

Of course I have my suspicions about Thompson, but see nothing wrong with voting for him since McCain and Giuliani are not near the top.

Of course if you are worried about the McCain surge it may be a good idea to vote tactically for Romney to build him up to defeat McCain in New Hampshire.

If you really want to confuse things in hope of a real conservative emerging later in the contests, maybe you should go with Huckabee.

Best wishes for success tonight.


TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: duncanhunter; huckabee; ia2008; iowa; prolife; romney; thompson; valuesvoter
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To: JenB

Ordinary people get to caucus, but the candidate has to get over a certain percentage of the vote to get a delegate and then those delegates are what is counted, correct?


21 posted on 01/03/2008 7:13:16 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty ("I am not a neoconservative. I am pro-American." - John Bolton)
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To: Kerretarded

As I understand it: you do a show-of-hands vote first and that gets called in. That’s what gets reported as the “Iowa caucus vote”. Then you choose delegates to the county convention. These delegates aren’t required to vote for any candidate at all. So, say, Romney could “win” a precinct’s show of hands, but the guys who are elected as delegates are personally for McCain and Thompson. It doesn’t really matter because the delegates get winnowed down until the state convention when the state’s delegation to the national convention is selected. I don’t know how they make sure that the guy who “wins” Iowa actually gets the delegates or not.


22 posted on 01/03/2008 7:17:43 AM PST by JenB
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To: Nextrush
After we met some of the sorry candidates running for POTUS, it's clear that Duncan Hunter is our man!

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23 posted on 01/03/2008 7:17:43 AM PST by spectre (spectre's wife)
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To: Nextrush

If I lived there I’d vote my conscience for Duncan Hunter with Fred T second.


If I lived there I’d certainly not vote for the ‘donut warrior’. Any candidate that would ignore my state and the people within certainly doesn’t deserve more than a monents consideration before deciding to support someone else that at least has the courtesy to show up and ask for the vote. By his actions donut has indicated Iowans aren’t important to him ...

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Iowa do your thing..... let the weeding process begin.


24 posted on 01/03/2008 7:24:40 AM PST by deport ( --- 5 days New Hampshire votes--- [ Meanwhile:-- Cue Spooky Music--])
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To: spectre

“After we met some of the sorry candidates running for POTUS, it’s clear that Duncan Hunter is our man!”

Duncan Hunter is a conservative’s conservative.


25 posted on 01/03/2008 7:54:33 AM PST by Sun (Duncan Hunter: pro-God/life/borders, understands Red China threat, NRA A+rating! www.gohunter08.com)
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To: Sun

Thanks

I couldn’t agree more.

Show the MSM they don’t know what they are talking about!!!

Vote Hunter!!!


26 posted on 01/03/2008 8:48:56 AM PST by CPT Clay (Drill ANWR, Personal Accounts NOW , Vote Hunter in the Primary)
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To: JenB

You are mostly correct. There is a paper ballot vote, not a “show of hands.” And you are correct that the eventual convention delegates are not actually bound to support any candidate.


27 posted on 01/03/2008 12:06:18 PM PST by iowamark
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To: Nextrush
I'd vote my conscience for Duncan Hunter with Fred T second...

it may be a good idea to vote tactically for Romney to build him up to defeat McCain...

If you really want to confuse things in hope of a real conservative emerging later in the contests, maybe you should go with Huckabee.

Gee, I thought I was indecisive!

28 posted on 01/03/2008 12:13:05 PM PST by iowamark
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To: iowamark

Well, that’s what happens when you’re uncommitted, vote on principles and able to see what might happen if you don’t vote tactically, too.


29 posted on 01/03/2008 1:54:01 PM PST by Nextrush (NO WAY MCCAIN but I remain uncommitted.)
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To: All

Too soon to focus on tactics. We haven’t even had the first primary vote yet.

Vote your principles.


30 posted on 01/03/2008 2:05:55 PM PST by Sun (Duncan Hunter: pro-God/life/borders, understands Red China threat, NRA A+rating! www.gohunter08.com)
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