Only 417 D votes cast so far at the Iowa State Fair

[PotatoChip]

This is probably a very informal thing, so I'm taking it with a 'grain of salt'.

Still, it's kind of fun to check in every once in awhile since it seems to update about every 10 or 15 minutes. Plus, the R numbers are there too.

(Sorry about the format)

D Lincoln Chafee 7 1.68%
D Hillary Clinton 181 43.41%
D Martin O'Malley 20 4.80%
D Bernie Sanders 205 49.16%
D Jim Webb 4 0.96%

D Total Votes 417

http://sos.iowa.gov/statefair.html

[PowerToThePeople]

1. 50% Sanders as of now

D Lincoln Chafee 7 1.56%
D Hillary Clinton 193 43.08%
D Martin O'Malley 20 4.46%
D Bernie Sanders 224 50.00%
D Jim Webb 4 0.89%

#FeelTheBern

[PotatoChip]

2. Cool! (nt)

[Picking Dem]

4. how long is the vote open n/t?

[PotatoChip]

5. I know very little about it, so I'm not sure.

Does anyone know if this is a regular Iowa Fair tradition for Presidential primaries?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. Trump and Carson, bwahahahah. nt

[PotatoChip]

11. I wonder if Trump paid for some of those votes. :-)

Btw- It would be interesting to know if someone is checking to make sure that these people are registered Iowa voters.

Edit: Or at the very least, Iowa residents of voting age...

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. It is, but it will create news

and a few tummy aches.

[Armstead]

7. Isn't it something like a buunch of beans tossed into jars?

I thought I saw something on TV about that. Maybe I'm wrong. If so not very scientific.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. It is extremely informal

but it will create news and blather for the next 2 news cycles.

Myself will just watch it, but I predict a lot of TUMMS in certain places though. It is usually discounted officially, but leads to changes in how campaigns are run. Some of those are really subtle. Sometimes candidates do drop out after this though, so the culling of the field, mostly on the R side, might begin, Pataki, Perry, Gilmore and one more are the obvious ones, Perry in particular since he is having trouble raising any cash.

[Stardust]

13. I think it's: 1 kernel of corn = 1 vote

[Robbins]

9. well

Bernie is winner among dems there.

among Republicans there trump and carson are winners.intresting that walker is so behind them.you have to laugh at how badly
jeb is doing there.even among republicans there doesn't seem to be a lot of excitement for another Bush.

[7wo7rees]

10. BERNIE!! Nice!! nt

[DemocraticWing]

12. It's eerily accurate on the Republican side.

Compare those results with the recent polls: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/ia/iowa_republican_presidential_caucus-3194.html

Trump and Carson are 1 and 2 respectively, with Walker/Fiorina/Cruz/Rubio/Bush forming a second tier in some order a few points back.

[RoccoR5955]

14. At this moment:

Lincoln Chafee 10 1.80%
Hillary Clinton 230 41.44%
Martin O'Malley 22 3.96%
Bernie Sanders 289 52.07%
Jim Webb 4 0.72%

Same link as OP, different time!

[ericson00]

15. from an NPR article: "No need to prove that this isn't your third time through today."

(http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/14/432136126/looking-for-kernels-of-truth-in-latest-iowa-poll-maybe-not) so I'm not too worried, tho then again, the anti-Clinton media will be sure to may kernels of it.

[PotatoChip]

16. Lol! I thought that pic at your link was part of a joke at first!

So, I guess it would have been more accurate to say that I take this poll as perhaps having a kernel of truth to it?

Cute idea, though!

[RoccoR5955]

17. Anti-Clinton media?

Like Faux News? National Petroleum Radio surely is for Mrs. Secretary Clinton.

well, at any rate at this moment:

D Lincoln Chafee 10 1.60%

D Hillary Clinton 253 40.42%

D Martin O'Malley 25 3.99%

D Bernie Sanders 334 53.35%

D Jim Webb 4 0.64%

I guess those damn Bernie Bass turds have been through ten or twenty times, because he should only have about 10 %


Well I am upset that nobody ate the corn dog yet, anyway.

[Hatchling]

19. If ,as you imply, Bernie's supporters are voting many times,

Who is to say Hillary"s aren't as well?

[ericson00]

20. thats the Hillary campaign, or the media, for once

isn't trying to make a story outta this. Hell, thats also probably why she didn't try to win it, as Clinton-haters would try to accuse her of multi-voting.

[MADem]

18. Mitt Romney bussed in busloads of people to vote for him at that shindig in the 08 run!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/us/politics/12straw.html?ex=1187755200%26en=7be5387c495de03a%26ei=5070

In addition, this was not exactly a textbook case of American democracy in action. It cost $35 to cast a vote, and most of the campaigns picked up the cost of the voting tickets. Mr. Romney dispatched a fleet of buses to bring in his supporters.