Great night for the Koch Brothers!

[emulatorloo]

Unfathomable to me that keeping your candidate away from media questioning about policy is a winning strategy.

Also unfathomable that Iowans would not object to all the gazillions of dollars pouring in from out of state telling us who to vote for.

[earthside]

1. It finally happened.

My analysis after the Citizens United decision was that it would take a few election cycles before the plutocrats finally figured-out how to use their new power. I think in 2014, we saw how massive amounts of money coordinated with a national theme and mass communications can determine the outcome of an election.

[GeorgeGist]

2. Iowa is off its meds.

State Wide Voter Turnout
Republican 162,633/605,718 26.85%
Democrat 72,411/601,889 12.03%

http://sos.iowa.gov/elections/pdf/2014/primary/turnout.pdf

[emulatorloo]

3. Holy cow, those numbers are damn disheartening.

Thanks for digging those out and posting.

[IADEMO2004]

4. These are the primary #'s --- 1,116,914 total senate votes yesterday--- link to Iowa SOS

http://electionresults.sos.iowa.gov/Views/TabularData.aspx?TabView=StateRaces^Federal%20/%20Statewide%20Races^84&ElectionID=84

need to click to next page I can't seem to copy paste a good link

[rurallib]

5. 2 people control 53 senators and 240 reps

the rest of us have 0

That is of course only at the federal level. They own many more on the state level.