55,000 fanatic Republicans vote Trump and the media acts like he's already been inaugurated [View all]

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As of December, 2023, there were 1.5 million actively registered voters in the state of Iowa. Just over 3% of them vote for Trump in the Iowa caucuses, and CNN’s panel was talking about his runaway victory.

Nikki Haley? According to CNN, she poured about $30 million into Iowa to get just over 20,000 votes. That’s about $1500 per vote. At that level (elevated, granted, but indulge me here), winning a meaningless second place in the November general election would cost her $100 billion, and she has a few primaries to go after this one to even get that far. You heard it here first, my friends: she isn’t going to raise even 3% of that.

And DeSantis was crowing about his upset “victory” of getting 1500 more votes than Haley, when they barely spilt 41,000 votes between the two of them.

Iowa had dreadful weather, so, only the fanatic faithful came out, and even then, they constituted less than a fifth of active Iowa Republican voters.

In 2012, Santorum won the Iowa Republican caucuses. In 2016, it was Ted Cruz. Let the media blow this up if they think it will impress their advertisers, but so far, I’m reading less into this result than I’m reading into the detergent commercials that kept interrupting the pundits’ useless chatter. It didn’t take me long to exercise my option to switch to some historical documentary, and then turn the TV off altogether.