i swear santorum sounds exactly like someone doing a nic cage impression
― Clay, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:32 (twelve years ago) link
some parts of the state have crappy school systems and are very slow at counting
― iatee, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:33 (twelve years ago) link
Don't get it: refresh, and CNN goes backwards to 98% in.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:34 (twelve years ago) link
god this speech is just nonstop resentment f this dude
― Clay, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/01/03/us/politics/20110104_IOWA-slide-55OJ/20110104_IOWA-slide-55OJ-hpMedium.jpg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
fivethirtyeight Nate Silver What if there's LITERALLY a tie?5 minutes ago Favorite Retweet
experts weigh in
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
Newt's opening shot: hacking into CNN's website and putting up phony numbers for Santorum.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://rlv.zcache.com/dirty_presidents_tshirt-p23537567210569470630w2_400.jpg
can we hope for a new #1???
― Mordy, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:36 (twelve years ago) link
Tie goes to the runner. That's when they bring in Chris Christie.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:37 (twelve years ago) link
santorum's kid (?) is rocking the sweatervest
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:38 (twelve years ago) link
five minutes of 4-on-4 followed by a shootout
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
we're all rooting for santorum for the lols right?
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
oh, definitely.
― your pain is probably equal (Z S), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
even outside of the lols santorum's better for 'us'
― iatee, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
It really is amazing--go back two weeks ago, and Santorum was fighting Bachmann for last place.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:42 (twelve years ago) link
kathrynlopez Kathryn Jean Lopez newt congratulates @ricksantorum right now. #itisawinforrickwhatevertheorderatthispoint1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:42 (twelve years ago) link
romney is like having a conversation with someone in the audience or something wt hell is he doing
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:43 (twelve years ago) link
kathrynlopez Kathryn Jean Lopez .@ricksantorum just about never reads from notes. he's overwhelmed that hard work has indeed paid off. #littleenginethatcouldhesaidformonths23 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:43 (twelve years ago) link
I do love when they start blaming Obama for divorces and depression.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:44 (twelve years ago) link
Those k-lo hashtags make me #dieinsideeverytime
― Clay, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:47 (twelve years ago) link
"A bunch of fellow rightwingers have been depressed since he got elected and now their spouses are divorcing them because they've become emotionally isolated and utterly monomaniacal. This must stop!"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:47 (twelve years ago) link
This has been Romney's schtick all week--quoting from "America the Beautiful." Wait until Newt unleashes "You Should Never Have Opened That Door" starting tomorrow.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:50 (twelve years ago) link
romney down to 40 on in trade! I know I'm the only one who cares about intrade but 97.5 to 40 in like 10 mins is pretty lol
― iatee, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:57 (twelve years ago) link
A Romneybot would hearken unto such lines as "Thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears", now wouldn't it?
― Aimless, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:58 (twelve years ago) link
― iatee, Wednesday, January 4, 2012 12:57 AM (58 seconds ago)
percent chance of winning?
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:59 (twelve years ago) link
those intrade bounces/plummets are fascinating.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 06:00 (twelve years ago) link
I remember looking around there last year, and there was a totally inexplicable one day bump for romney where all of a sudden he was in the 90s.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 06:02 (twelve years ago) link
toddstarnes toddstarnes Santorum spent about $1.65 per vote; Romney spent around $113 per vote. bit.ly/yYdPBq2 minutes ago
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 06:03 (twelve years ago) link
Perry and his PACs spent $6,000,000 for 12,500 votes -- %480 per vote.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 06:06 (twelve years ago) link
$480...
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 06:07 (twelve years ago) link
lead down to 18
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 4 January 2012 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
NEWT: We can't wait. I don't care what David Gergen says about inevitability, Romney's weak, that's it. That's the key for us. Gotta get Romney.
CALLISTA: Lemme ask you something, Professor. I mean--what about Paul and Santorum, huh? What do we do with these...nuisances?
NEWT: They wanna have a debate with me, right? It will be me, Santorum, Paul, and Romney. Let's set the debate. Get our Twitter people to find out where it's gonna be held. Now, we insist it's a public place--an auditorium, a town hall, some place where there's people so I feel safe.They're gonna shake hands with me when I first meet them, right, so I can't be frothing at the mouth then. But if Bill Kristol can figure a way to have opposition research planted there for me--then I'll kill 'em all.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 06:29 (twelve years ago) link
debates are for sissies. newt will only settle for lincoln-douglas debates
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 06:32 (twelve years ago) link
ONE VOTE
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 4 January 2012 06:37 (twelve years ago) link
Rick Santorum seen that shit and said: "Fuck it, imma run too, fuck it"
i see these dudes going, "You can win Rick, coz you're bigger than motherfucking Mitt Romney. Fuck Mitt Romney. Fuck him man, run for president." And Rick going: "Yeah, fuck that shit."
You know he got a chance he can win. White dudes like to do shit like that...vote for the wrong dude as a goof. They get drunk and shit and go like, "Let's vote for Rick Santorum!" *pulls lever* "haha I just voted for Rick Santorum!" And next day would be like this: "He fuckin' won?"
― omar little, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 06:39 (twelve years ago) link
ricky 'the body' santorum
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 06:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/3140/30121529301225611cerebu.jpg
― carson dial, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 06:48 (twelve years ago) link
shame that this isn't a contest that matters
― anorange (abanana), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 07:19 (twelve years ago) link
Romney wins by 8.
― Clay, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 07:38 (twelve years ago) link
damn
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 08:21 (twelve years ago) link
was it good for all of you/
would looooove for 8 votes to decide the Obamney election in Nov.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 12:36 (twelve years ago) link
For this I got up? The only good thing that may come out of this is that the salt has been rubbed into the wound a little deeper.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/04/politics/gop-iowa-gingrich/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
"Lying in wait"--sounds good to me.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 12:43 (twelve years ago) link
you really need baseball to start soon. you know, something significant.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
Go Newt! I mean, go Jays!
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 12:53 (twelve years ago) link
On the one hand this is pretty easy to spin for Romney, he can just point out that it's a marathon not a sprint. For him. For Santorum, it's a sprint.
On the other hand, nearly exactly 30,000 out of 120,000* does look like there are actual occult forces pinning him to 25%.
*Yeah, I know, 120,000 is not the exact figure, just the one being thrown around.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
i think this says everything you need to know about how much attention to pay to intrade
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
he won by 5 votes!
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
intrade is a pretty useful marker of public expectations, but yeah, bad at predicting elections w/ an 8 vote margin
― iatee, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/01/03/us/politics/20110104_IOWA-slide-C37Z/20110104_IOWA-slide-C37Z-hpLarge-v2.jpgguuys
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
the one on the far right (heh) is cute
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:06 (twelve years ago) link