Remember...a lot of the teabagger "enthusiasm" came at the cost of Democratic apathy...voters pissed at Obama or their congresscritter and didn't bother to vote. The teabagger margins of victory in many races were thin but there were enough of them to make it seem like some massive wave had overtaken the country and it surely was taken that way by the rushpublican party.
Supposedly last night was a record turn out for rushpublicans but considering all the attention and money thrown at this demolition derby the returns were far from what I'm sure was expected. I had heard initial predictions of over 200,000 to be at the cacuses...then it was scaled back to 150...and now 123,000 (vs. 122,000 in 2008) really isn't that impressive. And this happened despite the weather being nice for Iowa in January.
Remember that the Democrats drew more than twice this number in 2008 and hopefully a solid majority of those will be going to the polls in November...not sitting home and delivering Iowa to the Democratic column.
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