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  1. I have read, watched and listened to days of breathless #Political #HorseRace coverage of the #GOP #IowaCaucus and not once has any #media outlet mentioned that the results are a pretty poor sampling of a small fractional #minority of the state's voters who even bother to #engage in #VoterParticipation ... In a state of over 3 million people, barely 108,000 voters participated...That is way less than 4% of the state's current population. 43

    Nearly the same amount of people that voted attended a Women's Volleyball game in next door Nebraska last year as bothered to vote in this #GOPprimary...

    But do go on and keep basing electoral predictions and extrapolate millions of megabytes of media coverage on Iowa ?

    Total voters tallied are basically the population of the state's third largest town Davenport.

    I cannot even find out a tally of how many were female. The grand total is not even 15% of the state's registered #Republican voters.

    Take this gushing #MassMedia re-coronation of #DJT and his #Flex with a grain of #salt and realize we have a lot more diverse electorate nationally that may or may not be voting on far different issues and considering other information and candidates than a rural state that is one of Amurica's least diverse, with 90% caucasian citizenery in general, and even higher representation than that in the registered GOP voter base.

    wsj.com/politics/elections/iow

  2. In an article published on Monday, @NPR references Sunday's @uwcip rapid-research blog post: npr.org/2024/01/15/1224675823/

    Read "Examining an early election conspiracy theory taking shape in Iowa," by CIP research scientist @Mike Caulfield: cip.uw.edu/2024/01/14/iowa-cau

    #IowaCaucus #UWCIP

  3. New from our team at the @uwcip: @mikecaulfield has a rapid research blog post examining an early election conspiracy theory taking shape in Iowa.

    Recent allegations shared on X, formerly known as Twitter, point to a “conflict of interest” in Iowa Caucus vote counting but no specific wrongdoing is described.

    Read more: cip.uw.edu/2024/01/14/iowa-cau

    #Iowa #IowaCaucus #UWCIP

  4. 'Flashing red': DeSantis campaign 'running on fumes' as donor warns 'the cash crunch has accelerated'

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' hardcore supporters continue to hope that his presidential campaign will recover from its current slump, but according to countless polls, he is still way behind frontrunner Donald Trump among GOP primary voters. Polls released in early October have found DeSantis trailing Trump by 56 percent (Survey USA), 48 percent (Morning Consult) or 45 percent (The Economist/YouGov).

    Moreover, DeSantis' campaign — according to a report published by NBC News on October 10 — is suffering a "huge problem" when it comes to fundraising.

    NBC News reporters Jonathan Allen, Henry J. Gomez, Matt Dixon and Natasha Korecki explain, "The Florida governor's presidential campaign entered this month with just $5 million in cash available for the primary — a sum that reignites doubts about his solvency, budgeting and ability to gain ground on frontrunning former President Donald Trump. The pain is so acute that DeSantis is redeploying aides from his Tallahassee headquarters to Des Moines for the stretch run of a do-or-die January 15 Iowa caucus."

    #USPol #Politics #News #RonDeSantis #DeSantis #GOP #GOPPrimary #Republicans #Florida #IowaCaucus #Trump #DonaldTrump

    alternet.org/ron-desantis-2665

  5. Technology glitches prevent same-night release of Iowa caucus results - Enlarge / Voters hold up presidential preference cards during the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus a... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1651005 #electionsecurity #smartphoneapp #iowacaucus #policy