Bernie running away with Iowa straw poll.

[AtomicKitten]

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

scroll down

[PowerToThePeople]

1. @ 05:50 Central time

D Lincoln Chafee 10 1.75%
D Hillary Clinton 235 41.08%
D Martin O'Malley 22 3.85%
D Bernie Sanders 301 52.62%
D Jim Webb 4 0.70%

[lsufan59]

33. PowerToThePeople

feel the bern hill

[azmom]

2. Bern baby Bern

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[restorefreedom]

8. love the classics! nt

[HerbChestnut]

16. Watched that...

Then chained through a series of hilarious disco and 80s songs. You just sent me to some dark places my friend...

[azmom]

18. I came of age in the 80's, but remember

My older sisters love of disco music.

[lsufan59]

34. burn baby burn

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. It seems like the insurgents in both parties' primaries have the enthusiasm.

Trump and Ben Carson are kicking ass among the Republicans.

Could be an artifact of an energized activist base. Or not.

Seems like there's a whole lot of dissatisfaction with the political status quo and with how Washington has been working.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. yup

And Perry might have to pack it. Between doing bad and not being able to get money...

http://www.nationaljournal.com/2016-elections/rick-perry-s-financial-implosion-20150811

[restorefreedom]

9. it's fork time.

the establishment is done like dinner.

[Live and Learn]

5. Wow, that is amazing. Go Bernie! nt

[Attorney in Texas]

6. who the hell is Mark Everson?

[left-of-center2012]

15. I never heard of him either

Mark Whitty Everson is the Vice Chairman of alliantgroup and served as the 46th Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 2003 until 2007.
On March 5, 2015, Everson announced his intention to seek the Republican Party's nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 Presidential election.
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Everson#2016_presidential_campaign

[Chellee]

31. Rachel Maddow did a story about him.

He was suing Fox because they wouldn't let him into the kid's table debate.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

7. I'm so happy!

[tecelote]

10. Wow!

Americans caring about Americans?!

What about the surfer guy living on welfare eating lobster? Doesn't that just boil your skin?

No. People in Iowa do know. They care.

Simple.

Love thy neighbor.

[senz]

11. Trump's helicopter rumbled overhead during Bernie's speech, so Bernie apologized for

not bringing HIS helicopter.

So many reasons to love this guy. As Iowa state fair goers know!

[Fawke Em]

14. That's all over Twitter right now.

Cute.

[azmom]

19. Oh my god, I didn't hear it was while

Trump was overhead. Doubly funny.

[KingCharlemagne]

55. Sanders said he forgot his helicopter at home. Brilliant bon mot and

deft evisceration of the shrill, hollow pretension of the Donald.

[Duval]

12. Great! eom

[TheFarS1de]

13. Good to see .

eom

[cantbeserious]

17. Very Good News - Go Bernie Go

eom

[lovuian]

20. Wow this is revolution

against the political machine

Amazing stuff I noticed media is beside itself right now

[retrowire]

21. 79 vote lead in front of Hillary at the time of this post.

And it's only growing!

Feelin' da bern.

[glinda]

22. Oh my heart! I need to go hug my Bernie Bear right now!

[LuvLoogie]

23. Actually looks like Trump is running away with it.

And Republican votes outnumber Democratic votes more than 2 to 1. Can't say if the State Fair straw poll is indicative of Fair attendee profile or not.

The last statewide polls put Hillary about 24 points ahead, and that's before today's Harkin endorsement.

The last National polls put her about 30 points ahead. Now I know some here have said that National polls are meaningless compared to state polls. So I guess logically a Fair poll carries more weight than a statewide poll?

[Metric System]

25. Well, you can vote as many times as you want in this poll.

[Fawke Em]

26. If that is true, the numbers should be a lot higher than they are

in total.

Even so, Bernie's crowd was by far the largest, indicating this poll isn't too far off.

[LuvLoogie]

28. So who gets a ballot?

Do you have to be from Iowa? Hillary had no soapbox crowd, so....?

[lsufan59]

40. Metric System

[mythology]

27. The Fair poll is useless

In 2012 Michelle Bachmann won the Ames straw poll but who also dropped out of the race before the Iowa caucus. Romney won in 2007, but lost the nomination to McCain. These things aren't representative of anything.

[stevenleser]

29. Yep, straw polls are pretty useless. nt

[sabrina 1]

36. Lol, it's just one more enormous crowd, just watched the full coverage on C-SPan, amazing

crowds following Bernie around. Didn't see anything like it for any of the others.

So the poll matches the enthusiasm of the crowd there and of all the crowds he's been drawing, which no other candidate has done so far.

[stevenleser]

39. I noticed this bumped up in my My Posts list so someone I have on ignore responded.

Sorry, I can't see what you wrote.

[LuvLoogie]

30. So it's kind of like a Facebook poll

or a CNN online poll...

or a DU poll.

[stevenleser]

37. Exactly. There is zero methodology involved and no care to ensure the vote is representative of the

electorate.

Most professional polling agencies use a form of stratified sampling to ensure they are accurately reflecting the electorate with their polls. If you aren't doing that, your poll will likely be wildly inaccurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratified_sampling

[L0oniX]

57. Congrats. You noticed that it isn't a science fair.

[sabrina 1]

38. So why isn't Hillary winning any of these polls? Those are people voting, same thing on most of the

other Dem forums, Bernie winning by a landslide. Shouldn't the Front Runner be winning those polls?

[LuvLoogie]

42. So National and Statewide scientific polls

are meaningless compared to self-polling on Democratic website forums?

Republican votes outnumber Democratic votes on this State Fair Straw poll by more than 2 to 1. Surely you don't believe that there are more than twice as many Republican voters in Iowa than Democratic voters in Iowa.

[PowerToThePeople]

44. Does not appear so

http://www.politico.com/2012-election/results/president/iowa/

And that makes Bernie's numbers even more impressive!

#FeelTheBern

[LuvLoogie]

45. So National polls that put Hillary 30 points ahead of Bernie

and Iowa statewide pols that put her 25 points ahead of Bernie are countered by this Iowa State fair Straw poll? Even though this Iowa State fair straw poll shows more than twice as many Republican voters as Democratic voters?

So Iowa State Fair Straw Poll demographics are not indicative of actual statewide Republican voter representation, but they ARE indicative of statewide Bernie voter representation?

[PowerToThePeople]

46. National "polls"

How are these conducted? Calling phone lists? Land line numbers?

No one under 50 has a land line. I have not had a land line in 20 years. I do not see how these could be conducted over a broad spectrum of the country with any reliability anymore.

[LuvLoogie]

48. So you DO believe

that there are more than twice as many Iowa Republicans than there are Iowa Democrats because of this Iowa State Fair Straw poll. You are admitting that. Correct?

[PowerToThePeople]

49. Did you read my post

or follow the link? The link says that more dems voted in general election 2012 than repukes. No, I do not think there are twice as many repukes as dems in the state. I do think twice as many voted in the corn poll.

[LuvLoogie]

51. Of course I read it and followed the link.

But you contradict yourself because national and state polling predicted the actual 2012 outcome in Iowa within a couple of points. You just negated national polling and are upholding this Straw Poll over Scientific statewide polling in measuring Bernie's statewide support.

But I will grant you that Bernie won the "Corn Poll" if you don't count Donald Trump.

[TheFarS1de]

50. I heard ..

that pollsters are going to try the telegraph next . They seriously need to update their methods .

[Uncle Joe]

24. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, AtomicKitten.

[PowerToThePeople]

32. Is it done? Have not seen it updated for a while.

Democratic Party
D Lincoln Chafee 10 1.56%
D Hillary Clinton 259 40.53%
D Martin O'Malley 25 3.91%
D Bernie Sanders 341 53.36%
D Jim Webb 4 0.63%


Clowncar Party
R Jeb Bush 86 6.02%
R Ben Carson 258 18.05%
R Chris Christie 14 0.98%
R Ted Cruz 115 8.05%
R Mark Everson 2 0.14%
R Carly Fiorina 103 7.21%
R Jim Gilmore 1 0.07%
R Lindsay Graham 9 0.63%
R Mike Huckabee 53 3.71%
R Bobby Jindal 57 3.99%
R John Kasich 39 2.73%
R George Pataki 2 0.14%
R Rand Paul 58 4.06%
R Rick Perry 22 1.54%
R Marco Rubio 95 6.65%
R Rick Santorum 30 2.10%
R Donald Trump 390 27.29%
R Scott Walker 95 6.65%

[Yallow]

35. Bernie Got Almost As Many As Trump

And they still don't know who he is, or what he is all about.

The dinosaurs are feeling weaker.....

Hey Trump. Give me a billion dollars and I will vote for you. Anything less
and Bernie gets my vote. 900 million won't do it.

[ericson00]

41. you can vote twice in this poll. The crazies and

Clinton-hating rabid far-loons are probably the reason for this.

[TM99]

53. Ah, are you feelings hurt

that Clinton is not winning?

[totodeinhere]

54. No the loons are voting for Trump. Bernie has the sane people on his side.

n/t

[brooklynite]

43. Let me know if President Ben Carson thinks this is important

[TheFarS1de]

47. You know ...

you can almost smell the saltiness of some of these posters .

[Lifelong Protester]

52. Yep, Bern, baby, bern.

Feelin' the bern.

[AtomicKitten]

56. He's still up double digits.

Iowa's feeling the Bern.