Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Ron Paul supporters?

["Jim Locke" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Good point.

Another thing I suspect helped Obama in Iowa was the fact it was a Caucus, and I think some campaigns had some precincts send their people to him if their candidate wasn't deemed viable.

I doubt this happens in a regular Primary.

It's a shame we don't have Instant Runoff Voting for elections like this.

On Jan 7, 2008 1:22 AM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED > wrote:

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Jim Locke wrote:

> I think the relatively young people that are really energized by Obama and
> are very opposed to the Iraq war will really turn out in large numbers to
> support him in future states like they did in Iowa.
> If the older crowd would have been as energized as the younger one in Iowa,
> I don't think Hillary would have come in 9% behind Obama.
> Granted, demographics especially w.r.t. age may very well have had to do
> with it.  In other words, maybe there's a relatively high percentage of the
> "younger" crowd in Iowa compared with the over 60 crowd.

Remebmer that Obama's people went all-out in Iowa -- even providing
transportation and babysitting for people who wanted to attend the caucus
to support Obama.  That probably helped him!

Mike

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