Iowa Youth straw poll resulsts from Iowa secretary of state

[Robbins]

https://twitter.com/IowaSOS

Bernie-53% Clinton 30% O'Malley 10%

GOP results-Trump 25% Rubio-18% Carson-18% Cruz-15%

This is youth of iowa voting who they like in Youth straw poll.

[restorefreedom]

1. very concerning that rubio is that high.

happy about the dem results, though

[merrily]

3. The Republican field is always awful. This time, it's flat out jumped the shark, IMO.

Rubio?

Jeb?

Kasich?

All make me want to upchuck, then run away. Yet I think those may be the best bets in the field. It's horrifying.

[morningglory]

5. "umped the shark"? Intentional?

I like it.

[merrily]

9. I just noticed it and fixed it before reading your post.

I can put it back the other way, if you like.

Using an "h" instead of a "j" also occurred to me.

[Kalidurga]

27. well an h would be more accurate

shark jumping is so last century.

[merrily]

28. LOL! Whereas shark humping is Third Millenium trending.

[Kalidurga]

30. Oh trust me it will be the second someone

makes a meme with T-Rump getting it on with a shark.

[JudyM]

31. T-rumping the shark.

[Kalidurga]

35. oh even better

lol T-Rump tells all the sharks he will build that wall!!!

[restorefreedom]

6. i have to wonder how many will drop after iowa

please be jeb and christie........

sad that this is their best. at least mittens was sane. sure,he was a predatory scumbag capitalist who did't give a shit about the rest of us, but he was sane, which is more than most of these

[merrily]

13. When Romney starts looking good, I start looking for the nearest asp.

[restorefreedom]

14. indeed. and lovely pic! nt

[Kalidurga]

29. I already have

J/K, but this crop of Republicans do make me miss Romney's innocence. Yes, of course he is an idiot. He is out of touch. He is robotic. He is very willing to let people die so he can make a buck. But, he is so out of touch he has an air of innocence like "I don't understand why you all are so mad at me I was just looking out for the investor class, it's not my fault people lost their jobs and their homes and some people ended up homeless."

[CoffeeCat]

23. Rubio will be the nominee

It will be between Rubio and Trump.

Rubio is now the darling of the Kochs. They're putting all of their money on Rubio.

I think they knew that Rubio wouldn't win Iowa. Iowa Republicans always pick a nut job in their caucuses. It's what they do. Rick Santorum won the last Iowa caucuses. Huckabee before that. There's enough evangelical extremists in Iowa, and they vote in high numbers, to produce some pretty horrifying results on the Republican side.

[restorefreedom]

24. i hate to say it

but i hope its trump over rubio. trump is a scumbag, but rubio is an OWNED scumbag.

the establishment is going to lose this cycle imo

interesting about iowa politics, though. weird wild stuff.

[greiner3]

32. As to Kasich

The local rag The Columbus Disparch is crying foul because someone is running negative ads against their pick for just another terrible OH president

[merrily]

33. When did media become the propaganda arm for certain campaigns?

[Robbins]

8. yeah

this suggests both rubio and carson may do better than polls In Iowa suggest.

big thing is this says trump will win Iowa on monday and cruz could actully finish 4th.

[restorefreedom]

10. well at least that is good about cruz

but rubio and carson are not really an improvement, either....

[Robbins]

18. If rubio finishes second with republicans

the establishment pushes him as alternate to trump.they know Carson is an idiot and not in a w way of fooling voters.

[restorefreedom]

19. thats what makes me nervous

gopCorp is getting ready to shove wonder boy down everyones throats....

[Robbins]

21. Yes

but rubio actully has to win some primarys.problem is even if others start dropping out trump is second choice of some supporting other candiates.Now if rubio could finish second and only 7 points behind trump as youth straw poll says that could help rubio rise some In NH.still if trump polls off a win in both iowa and NH they are probally stuck with trump.

Rubio who comes off as more postive would be tougher republican to beat in november.I think Bernie can do it but it could be closer race than it would be againstt rump or cruz.

[restorefreedom]

22. yup. i actually hope cruz and carson hang around

if only to make things harder for wonderboy

[Le Taz Hot]

2. I may be wrong

but I've heard from too many Iowans, including our own CoffeCat, who say that too many of the Bernie supporters are going under the radar and are not being counted in these polls. I guess we'll all know on Monday.

[Robbins]

4. Yep

I think this is good news for bernie.this was conducted between kindergarden and grade 12.kids may be voting this way because of how their parents are speaking.this suggests bernie could have higher support than any iowa poll suggests.

If your O'Malley supporter this also says his support may be a bit higher than polls suggest

[restorefreedom]

7. I think bernie and om

will come out higher than the predictions. would not be surprisd to see om second.

[jillan]

16. I don't understand the polls because no one has landlines anymore - I'm 60ish & don't

Not only are the pollsters not reaching cell phone users - who in this day and age answers their phone if they do not recognize the phone number?

I can't wrap my head around this & can't believe polls.

But I can believe the size of crowds.
I can believe that Bernie has cross-over appeal. When he was in Az I stood next to a middle-aged couple that were R's and were standing in a crowd of 10K people rooting for Bernie.

As they say, the only poll that matters is the one on election day. And personally I cannot wait to see Rachel, Tweety, Claire McCaskill and the rest eat their words. Nom nom nom.

[Le Taz Hot]

20. We were at our local university

once a week for 6 weeks (when the weather was warm), registering voters in the process, of course, and we re-registered several who were formerly Republicans to either Democrats or Decline to State (in California you can vote for Bernie if you're a Decline to State). I've also had SO many tell me they've never voted and/or have never been involved in a political campaign come out and table with us and phone bank with us and honk-and-wave with us. If this were Iowa, none of these people would be counted as "likely caucus goers."

[TheBlackAdder]

25. I have a land line and a cell phone. I don't answer the land line unless I know who's calling. nt

.


Too many calls about my MIcrosoft Windows system throwing errors by someone in India.

Too many robo calls. If it's not a human voice who says "Hi!" I don't enable the mic on the phone.


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[elleng]

26. Right, I don't think polls are worth the bandwidth they're 'written' on.

[greiner3]

34. Can't remember where I heard it but probably NPR

That some entity is trying to get bills through banning calls to cell for purposes of polling. Just one more trick used to undermine youth numbers

[Renew Deal]

11. Here is some info

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/politics/election/iowa-caucus/iowa-youth-straw-poll-iowa-students-say-its-trump-and-sanders-20160126

http://teachers.caucus101.com

[VulgarPoet]

12. Oh oh but "you can't rely on these polls they're worthless"

how come I'm only seeing that when they're saying Bernie's on top of the pile?

[yeoman6987]

15. I just hope they all show up

It starts at 7 and over at 2? Jobs and college the next day? Day off perhaps?

[longship]

17. Plus, caucuses are really difficult to poll.

So any polls in IA must be taken with a grain or two of salt.

We'll know when the results are in.