The Iowa Caucus: Picking Presidential Candidates Through Chaos and Ineptitude
Rick Santorum has now belatedly been announced as the winner of the Iowa Caucus, beating Willard “Mittens” Romneycare (Mittens for short) by 34 votes.
The Iowa GOP says that “we’ll never know” an accurate vote count because some of the precincts in Iowa lost or deliberately destroyed their Caucus vote totals.
There is a good case to be made for conspiracy buffs out there that the Fifth Dimensional imp known as Luap noR! actually won the Iowa Caucus but that Iowa’s Republican Party knew what a disaster that would be to the state’s “first in the nation” voting — so vote counts were doctored to slip Dr. Paul down to third place.
After witnessing first hand the chaos and ineptitude of the Iowa Caucus back in 2008 on the Democrat side where non-residents were allowed to vote for Barack Obama and all sorts of thuggery and fraud were employed to secure him a Caucus win there, I have no doubt in my mind that Cocktail Party officials attempted to rig the Caucus for Mittens.
The fact is: Caucuses are fraud-prone and chaotic. The two political parties like them because they are so easy to rig. Republicans probably didn’t like that Mike Huckabee won the Caucus in 2008 when no one was paying attention…so, four years later, the Cocktail Party decided to keep Luap noR! or Rick Santorum from winning and engaged in all sorts of tricks and games to make that happen.
The agenda-driven media will never report on any of these shenanigans because it got the result it most wanted: a win for Mittens that began the process of making him the man who will lose to Obama in the general election.
Iowa should not have a Caucus but should vote with a secure primary like other states — and it should no longer vote first.
Aren’t you sick and tired of chaos and ineptitude kicking off the presidential race every four years?
A better question is “What can we do about that?”.
© 2012, Kevin DuJan. All rights reserved.
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Thereis not a shadow of a doubt that the caucus process is nothing but another means to commit voter fraud. That cannot be more evident than the fact that ONLY the presidential primary was changed to a caucus in my state in 2008 at the beheast of non other than the Doddering Doofus Reid along with the Paul-bots on the republican side. The rationalization that it "saves money" is as bogus as the caucus process since there is still a primary process in NV for every office EXCEPT president. I can't wait for the fact that the Paul-bots are, yet again, going to come out on the short end of the stick this time as well even though it is now a caucus process. I plan to play nice with them after the caucus to make sure they start fighting to go back to the primary process. It is a crying shame that the whole election process has become such as vile, crooked process!!
After learning more about the caucus process through Hillbuzz and other reading, I'm just left wondering "why do we even have these?" They seem like such a broken mechanic, and from what I understand, they don't even have a bearing on who actually gets delegates (at least not in Iowa, where the GOP delegates are picked from a separate vote in March).
So, what, it's just a bigger, grander straw poll? What a waste.
That and states that have open primaries where anyone and everyone can vote no matter the party affiliation. That is insane.