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Ron Paul took 48% of the youth vote in Iowa to Santorum's 23% and Romney's 14%.
He may not be the nominee this time around, but eventually those under-30s are going to be over 30 and making up the majority of Republican voters. Ha!
Security Theater And The TSA
A Sullivan Reader writes:
Why haven’t terrorists been hitting public transportation, museums, shopping malls, movie theatres, etc? Either because there aren’t nearly as many terrorists as the security state apparatus and its apologists want us to think there are, or terrorists really do just want to hit airplanes. My money is on the former. I’ve long argued with friends that Al Qaeda has already shot its wad.
All you need to do to shut down the USA is five guys. Five suicide bombers who will detonate themselves roughly simultaneously one Monday morning or Friday afternoon on Boston’s MTA, New York’s subway, DC’s subway, Chicago’s CTA and the BART in San Francisco. Or five guys to leave exploding backpacks in five upscale stores in the same five cities. Or five baseball parks in the same five cities. Or five museums in the same cities, or five …
Bingo, America will react just like it did after 9/11 - total shutdown, panic, madness, new laws restricting civil liberties, billions of dollars spent on security theater. And that hasn’t happened, and not due to “If you see something, say something” PSAs on the trains. It hasn’t happened because they don’t have the guys. So when security experts say it’s just a matter of time till terrorists strike again, I shake my head: what are they waiting for? For the security experts’ paychecks to clear?
The TSA is not about safety; it is about power.
Don't forget the super delegates.
As I just reported, Romney, Santorum, and Paul accrued equal numbers of delegates from the Iowa caucuses — and that’s the most important number for the GOP nominating convention.
However, it’s also important not to forget the super delegates, who make the total delegate count 18 for Romney, 8 for Santorum, and 7 for Paul.
The super delegates are basically party bigwigs, and they’re free to support whomever they choose. Not surprisingly, most of them go for Romney so far. He is, after all, the establishment man.
In the event that a candidate suspends his campaign, these delegates will typically shift their support to someone else. In this case — assuming none of the second tier candidates resurge and, as looks likely, Santorum’s campaign continues to prove unready for prime time — delegates who do not wish to support Romney would be forced to switch to Paul. This is especially likely for soon to be erstwhile Santorum supporters, since their single biggest issue seems to be abortion, and Romney has a history of confusion on that matter.
Paul, Romney, Santorum TIED for Delegates to the GOP Convention
As you all no doubt know by now, Romney won the Iowa caucus vote last night by 8 votes. Santorum came in second, and Ron Paul came in a close third, only a four percentage points down.
But here’s the thing: Those votes aren’t binding. They aren’t what determines who gets selected as delegates for each county. And it’s that selection which determines who the delegates to the GOP nominating convention will be — and thus who they’ll support.
This is the count that really matters in terms of the actual selection of the nominee, and here the numbers are:
- Romney: 7
- Santorum: 7
- Paul: 7
- Gingrich: 2
- Perry: 2
- Bachmann: 0
- Huntsman: 0
Ron Paul supporters, rejoice. And don’t let anyone tell you he didn’t tie for first in Iowa.
2 Hours to Go
In less than two hours, Iowa caucusgoers will begin their complicated process of selecting their preferred candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency. So here’s an update of some stuff which has been happening in the final days of the Iowa campaign:
- Attacks, attacks, and more attacks. Even from Gingrich, who had vowed not to go negative but ultimately found that strategy unsuccessful.
- Ron Paul is in competition only with Mitt Romney for viral support on Facebook, but even Romney willingly conceded that Paul’s ads against Newt Gingrich were the best of the campaign season — and an Iowa State prof agrees. On Twitter, WaPo finds Paul is king uncontested, beating out even the President for mentions.
- In terms of last ditch efforts, Santorum is relying on lots of personal appearances; Perry is spending big on TV ad buys; and Bachmann appears to seriously expect divine intervention.
- Many Iowa voters are heading to the caucuses still undecided — a remarkable feat after no less than 18 debates. Interestingly, Romney’s “ignore Iowa” strategy has pulled him basically the exact same percentage of support he had after a huge campaign in the state in ‘08. Newt, meanwhile, has essentially admitted defeat in Iowa after voters got to know him a little too well.
- Finally, Buzzfeed has found a strong similarity between the campaign plans of Ron Paul 2012 and Barack Obama 2008 in an article titled “Ron Paul’s Secret Plan to Actually Win.” I’m not sure this plan is supposed to be a secret, but here’s hoping he does indeed win.
Pets with Newt
This is a real thing, you guys, actually paid for by the Newt Gingrich campaign: A site of pictures of animals whose owners support Newt.
Except there appear to only be five of them.
In all of America.
Oh but you can also see which zoos Newt likes the most. Because there’s a list.
Really.
This may be the saddest example of campaign strategy I have ever seen.
