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Texas Lawyer

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10. Yeah, but the Koch brothers didn't just spend 5 million dollars on the people out your window.

Reply to msongs (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 3, 2012, 06:33 PM

Jan 2012

It is a bullshit process, but it bears monitoring because the worst aspects of corporatist America are heavily invested in the process and so you know it is a process where your best interests are both at stake and not being looked after.

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Who got Iowa right among RealClearPolitics, Nate Silver at 538, Pollster, the DM Register, etc.? [View all] Texas Lawyer Jan 2012 OP

I can see more people out my window than will vote in all of iowa today lol nt msongs Jan 2012 #1

Yeah, but the Koch brothers didn't just spend 5 million dollars on the people out your window. Texas Lawyer Jan 2012 #10

How can you tell? NathanTheGreat Jan 2012 #2

Even Nate Silver is unsure. RandySF Jan 2012 #3

Unsure, yes. But whether we have to listen to months of crap from Perry or from Bachmann or from Texas Lawyer Jan 2012 #12

They're all pretty similar. PPP is the only courageous call, imo. n/t Laelth Jan 2012 #4

I tend to think poorly of Rasmussen and highly of PPP. They project different outcomes this time so Texas Lawyer Jan 2012 #8

I am curious as well. Laelth Jan 2012 #9

Averages of polls don't count... brooklynite Jan 2012 #5

marked Schema Thing Jan 2012 #6

Polls Mean Little...Turnout Does... KharmaTrain Jan 2012 #7

Actually, the caucus doesn't control allocation of Iowa's delegates to the Repub convention so Texas Lawyer Jan 2012 #11

Goods thread topic. aaaaaa5a Jan 2012 #13

Doesn't look like any poll accurately measured the size of Santorum's surge from behind Texas Lawyer Jan 2012 #14

It's to bad google doesn't have a poll. NT aaaaaa5a Jan 2012 #15

In fairness, only one of those is a projection cthulu2016 Jan 2012 #16