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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 09:40 AM Jun 2015

One voter shows up at Santorum event in Iowa

At first, one was the loneliest number for Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Monday.

Just one Iowan showed up at 2 p.m. campaign stop Monday at a restaurant in the unincorporated community of Hamlin, population 300, according to a report from The Des Moines Register — Peggy Toft, an insurance agent who chairs the county’s Republican Party.

Eventually, there were four Iowans gathered at Santorum’s table (not counting photographers and campaign aides), where the 2016 hopeful lunched on a breaded tenderloin with a side of onion rings.

Santorum told the Register that the low turnout was not surprising, but that it is all a part of the plan.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/rick-santorum-iowa-event-one-voter-turnout-118774.html
Not much froth there...

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One voter shows up at Santorum event in Iowa (Original Post) n2doc Jun 2015 OP
One person huh? Quackers Jun 2015 #1
lol Renew Deal Jun 2015 #3
Well, 10 showed up at his next stop snooper2 Jun 2015 #14
So then he's trending higher? Gidney N Cloyd Jun 2015 #19
1000% if my math is right rurallib Jun 2015 #21
Maybe he's the only guy who's still allowed to vote? CanonRay Jun 2015 #16
How did they identify the one person as an Iowan? Renew Deal Jun 2015 #2
She was wearing her "I'm With Stupid" t-shirt. randome Jun 2015 #5
LMAO!!!! n/t Hepburn Jun 2015 #11
As county chair isn't she sort of required to be there? underpants Jun 2015 #17
"all part of the plan" MoonRiver Jun 2015 #4
Post 6 below - it was a "Santorum event" underpants Jun 2015 #12
He's on a roll! MoonRiver Jun 2015 #18
"Santorum event" just sounds bad. dawg Jun 2015 #6
I shiver to imagine Betty Karlson Jun 2015 #8
Puppet Show and Rick Santorum deutsey Jun 2015 #7
At least he's honest ... GeorgeGist Jun 2015 #9
Amazingly high turnout... Mike Nelson Jun 2015 #10
Support for (p)Rick is growing!! underpants Jun 2015 #13
One too many.. n/t PowerToThePeople Jun 2015 #15
"Part of the plan." Amazing, isn't it? He must have a losing strategy. nt valerief Jun 2015 #20
Can he parlay this popularity into a job with Fox? rurallib Jun 2015 #22
 

randome

(34,845 posts)
5. She was wearing her "I'm With Stupid" t-shirt.
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 09:45 AM
Jun 2015

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
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underpants

(182,823 posts)
17. As county chair isn't she sort of required to be there?
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 10:17 AM
Jun 2015

That's like counting the parents in the headcount at a kid's birthday party.

underpants

(182,823 posts)
12. Post 6 below - it was a "Santorum event"
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 10:06 AM
Jun 2015

As I understand it, it takes at least two for said kind of event.

 

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)
8. I shiver to imagine
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 09:49 AM
Jun 2015

the results of a google search with the term "santorum event"

Dan Savage would have a field day with that one...

deutsey

(20,166 posts)
7. Puppet Show and Rick Santorum
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 09:48 AM
Jun 2015


"I've told them a hundred times: put 'Rick Santorum' first and 'Puppet Show' last."

underpants

(182,823 posts)
13. Support for (p)Rick is growing!!
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 10:09 AM
Jun 2015

He drew a slightly larger crowd in nearby Panora, Iowa, when 10 people showed up to ask him questions about his positions at a telecommunications company.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/rick-santorum-iowa-event-one-voter-turnout-118774.html#ixzz3cZeDnTrO

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