Ron Paul takes the lead in Iowa.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Interesting snippet from the BBC feed here-

"Online betting site InTrade puts Mitt Romney's chances of winning Iowa tonight at nearly 50%, Ron Paul on 29% and Rick Santorum at nearly 24% - at time of writing"

[BeBMan]

I don't know how politics is done in Germany, but around here it's considered to be in poor taste for party officials to try to subvert a caucus or primary.

It's mostly boring, except in cases like the one making news here right now when the head of state (not gov) is caught lying and trying to pressure journalists

[HalfLotus]

It looks like you can vote in that thing multiple times.

Nope.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I don't know how politics is done in Germany, but around here it's considered to be in poor taste for party officials to try to subvert a caucus or primary.

It's an overblown opinion poll. Outside of the rampant weirdness that is US politics, nobody cares.

[Felch]

It's an overblown opinion poll. Outside of the rampant weirdness that is US politics, nobody cares.

No, it's not an opinion poll. It's the first step to selecting a Presidential candidate.

[HalfLotus]

[DaShi]

I too am jumping on the Ron Paul bandwagon. What's good for Ron Paul is good for America!

[Dinner]

I don't know how politics is done in Germany, but around here it's considered to be in poor taste for party officials to try to subvert a caucus or primary.

That's hilarious given that is exactly what party heirarchies are designed to do and even the Supreme Court members have been appointed to be complete piece of dog **** partisan political activists. Just look at the abortion called Bush v. Gore (see how the justices act as little better than political boosters) or even worse the completely fascist Citizens United case which threw out all campaign finance laws and literally legalized unlimited special money donation in politics with absolutely zero public transparency. If anything will end up killing real democracy in American replacing it with 3rd world cronyism it will be the legalized bribery the current conservatives created via Citizens United. It's without a doubt the worst reasoned case since Dred Scott. People should be executed for this ****.

[Felch]

Don't you find all that to be in poor taste?

[Dinner]

Yes, I do. That doesn't make it any less factually true though. I think I made my opposition to it pretty clear when I said the ****ers need to be publicly executed for what they've done.

[DaShi]

Paul out of the gates with 43%!

[giblets]

Googled 'Iowa Caucus':

Results for Iowa Republican Caucus (U.S. Presidential Primary) Jan 03, 2012 (3% of precincts reporting) Rick Santorum 463 26.2% Ron Paul 406 22.9% Mitt Romney 318 18% Newt Gingrich 286 16.2% Rick Perry 169 9.5%

edit: Apolyton is being retarded and won't display my post correctly

[HalfLotus]

Paul leading Intrade currently, at 42%

http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/?eventId=90932

[Berzerker]

damn, Gary Johnson endorsed Paul and dropped his bid for the LP nomination.

[kentonio]

Santorum slightly ahead after 6% in. What a wierd night.