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Maybe it's time for a GOP rebellion. Why should voters listen to the GOP or Rove when they helped us into this soup? Does anyone think Romney has the guts to cut a trillion dollars in spending? Would he or Gingrich demand a declaration of war before putting troops in harms way? Are either of them going to get back to the Constitution, or just give it timely lip service?

This absolutely sickens me. It is the lowest of the low. Liberal Alan Colmes mocks Rick Santorum for treating his dead son with dignity. Colmes was suggesting that voters would shun Santorum once they “get a load of some of the crazy things he’s said and done, like taking his two-hour-old baby when it died right after child birth home and played with it so that his other children would know that the child was real." Notice the word "it." Colmes said the Santorum's took "it" home. My goodness, even a child that is born is still an "it"...

"..........And this, as much as anything else, is why Rick Santorum—a man who was stuck at 4 percent in the local polls as recently as one month ago, and is still stuck at 4 percent nationally—is going to win the Iowa caucuses on Tuesday........

Live thread to cover today's GOP caucus. News, predictions, opinions, totals, and the like. Will be heading out about 4 pm or so to get our site ready and do a final review with the precinct chairs. I expect it to be bigger than 2008 with very heavy turnout and we are preparing for that. We are also ready for disruptions. They simply won't be tolerated. The state party sent us a memo saying if there's any trouble call the cops immediately. Anyone trying to cause problems is going to get a rude awakening. My predictions of the outcome are...

Now that the Christmas/Hanukkah/New Year’s season has ended, another new season begins, one that I call SILLY. WELCOME to the SILLY SEASON called United States of America 2012 Presidential elections politics. On this day of the Iowa GOP Republican Caucus, when those who are part of this caucus voting effort, the ball gets rolling to get a candidate who can not only survive the grueling campaign for the White House, but all the attacks coming from other GOP Republican candidates in the weeks and months ahead. Best wishes to the remaining candidates in the GOP Republican Presidential 2012 field. Best...

Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney are arguing like girls on the playground. The USA Today piece is funny, but it shows the absurdity of meaningless rhetoric. Voters who knew and understood Herman Cain's 999 plan may be left to wonder what Romney and Gingrich stand for except attacking each other, and defending themselves. Iowans do not like candidates bickering with each other.

For months on the campaign trail, former Senator Rick Santorum was an afterthought for many potential voters. However, in the past week, his popularity has increased tremendously right before the Iowa Caucus. Along with his rising poll numbers, the traffic on RickSantorum.com has exploded as well. The traffic-tracking website Alexa did not even rank RickSantorum.com in the top 100,000 websites on the internet in the three months leading up to the surge. Yet, in the past week, not only has the site gone above 100,000, but it has broken 40,000: (Three Month View) (One Week View) To put this into...

The Republican Iowa Caucus is tomorrow and by all accounts it will be a very close race. Mitt Romney and Ron Paul have been neck-and-neck in the polls for months now, but a Rick Santorum surge in the last week makes Iowa appear to be a three-way race. Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich are also on the ballot. Who will win is completely up in the air at the moment and will be until tomorrow night. However, right now, who would you vote for if you had a chance to voice your support in the Iowa...

Well here we go, the Iowa Caucuses are now just a day away. While I felt good about the simulation I performed last week, it appears all but shot now. The good news is that the numbers are still good, I just have to move the names around a little bit. In this thread, we’ll go county-by-county and analyze the vote totals and the most likely outcomes. Your own comments and analysis are always welcomed. Again this isn’t as scientific as some might think, and probably relies more on common sense. One last item. If this does turn out to...

<p>In what may be an anomaly in Iowa caucus history, voters are still flitting from candidate to candidate in the final days of the race.</p>

A popular social conservative radio talk show host whose program is heard statewide in Iowa is backing Newt Gingrich for president. Steve Deace's endorsement comes four days before the Hawkeye State's January 3 caucuses...

Iowans might feel a bit overwhelmed by the choices for next Tuesday’s Republican caucuses for the GOP presidential nomination, but one independent group has begun running radio ads insisting that there is still room for one more choice. Calling itself “Sarah Palin’s Iowa Earthquake,” the group will target specific markets in Iowa asking voters to line up behind the Republican Party’s most prominent non-candidate, and other ads will apparently follow: Can Iowans caucus for Palin at this late date? Sure. Unlike primary states, there is no “ballot” in the legal sense at caucuses. Attendees can write in names on the...

Full Primary/Caucus Calendar Jan 3 Iowa (caucus) 28 Delegates Jan 10 New Hampshire (primary) 12 Delegates Jan 21 South Carolina (primary) 25 Delegates Jan 31 Florida (primary) 50 Delegates Feb 4 Nevada (caucus) 28 Delegates Feb 4-11 Maine (caucus) 24 Delegates Feb 7 Colorado (caucus) 36 Delegates Minnesota (caucus) 40 Delegates Missouri (primary) 52 Delegates Feb 28 Arizona (primary) 29 Delegates Michigan (primary) 30 Delegates Mar 3 Washington (caucus) 43 Delegates Mar 6 Alaska (caucus) 27 Delegates (Super Georgia (primary) 76 Delegates Tuesday) Idaho (caucus) 32 Delegates Massachusetts (primary) 41 Delegates North Dakota (caucus) 28 Delegates Ohio (primary) 66 Delegates...

Polls? Screw the polls. If you want any good information you have to find it yourself. So that’s what I set out to do last week. It took about two weeks to produce/run the simulation but I think my product (while nowhere perfect) should be just as good an indicator of what is going to happen in Iowa as a sample poll. Here is what I did. I went painstakingly through all 99 counties analyzing the numbers on voter turnout and results from both the 2004 General Election and the 2008 Iowa Caucus and General Election to find the most...

The Politico reported on Tuesday that some Iowa Republicans are worried that a Ron Paul victory in the state’s upcoming caucuses could damage its first-to-vote influence in future elections by anointing a candidate with little chance to win the GOP nomination and who is unrepresentative of the party. Whoever is angsting about that, can angst some more over a new poll showing Paul in first place. Paul runs ahead of the GOP presidential pack with 27.5 percent support, followed by Newt Gingrich at 25.3 percent, Mitt Romney at 17.5 percent, Rick Perry at 11.2 percent and everyone else in single...

FReepers, Need your Help: Very shortly I'm going to be releasing my county by county analysis of the Iowa Caucus, projecting based on polling data and previous history the most likely outcome, along with an analysis of what % of each county vote the eventual GOP nominee will need to capture to have a shot at winning Iowa. I don't know a whole lot of IA history, so I've been surprised to see so many voter totals going down in response to people leaving. Most of the counties I've analyzed so far have had a 1-8% decrease in voter turnout...

Three new polls came out today on the Republican race for the nomination. At first glance one seems way out of line with the others, until you tally up the numbers and notice that it only comes to 64%. (36% no response/undecideds, CBS? What's up with that?) So if you add 50% to the total for each candidate in the CBS poll below, you can see the results match the other polls to a very high degree. Here are the results, with my 'adjustments' for CBS in brackets: Candidate - CNN - ABC - CBS Gingrich - 28 - 30...

With two weeks remaining before Iowa kicks off the 2012 campaign with its first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses, the state Republican Party is taking steps to secure its electronic vote collection system after receiving a mysterious threat to its computers. A video claiming to be from a collective of computer hackers has jolted party officials with a worst-case scenario: an Iowa caucus marred by hackers who successfully corrupt the database used to gather vote totals and crash the website used to inform the public about results that can shape the campaign for the White House. Watch the video here

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad warned against Democratic caucus crashers who could try to influence the Iowa selection system as a way to nominate the weakest Republican candidate to face off against President Obama. “That’s been tried from time to time and you know what happened four years ago? A lot of independents and even some Republicans actually got involved and that actually helped Obama beat Hillary Clinton and guess what? They actually got Obama for president,” said Branstad, a Republican. “Now some of those people are having second thoughts about it.” Branstad made the comments today when asked about the...

Iowa Caucus Polling System Threatened By HackersPublished December 19, 2011 | Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa – Republican Party officials in Iowa are taking new steps to secure their vote counting systems after an anonymous threat suggested computer hackers could attempt to disrupt next month's presidential nominating caucuses. A video uploaded to YouTube features a computer-generated voice denouncing a corrupt political system and calls on supporters to "peacefully shut down" the Jan. 3 caucuses. The video claims to be from Anonymous, a loosely organized group of hackers who have successfully conducted past computer attacks. Investigators aren't sure whether the video...