LilMikeSF<p>I have read, watched and listened to days of breathless <a href="https://c.im/tags/Political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Political</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HorseRace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HorseRace</span></a> coverage of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IowaCaucus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IowaCaucus</span></a> and not once has any <a href="https://c.im/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> outlet mentioned that the results are a pretty poor sampling of a small fractional <a href="https://c.im/tags/minority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minority</span></a> of the state's voters who even bother to <a href="https://c.im/tags/engage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>engage</span></a> in <a href="https://c.im/tags/VoterParticipation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoterParticipation</span></a> </p><p>... In a state of over 3 million people, barely 108,000 voters participated...That is way less than 4% of the state's current population. More people pass through the gates at the state fair in Des Moines on a single day than showed up in their own hometowns to vote yesterday.</p><p> If you added up all the votes for Tangerine Palpatine, plus <br> the Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley campaigns in the most populous city of <a href="https://c.im/tags/DesMoines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DesMoines</span></a>, it still doesn't equal the total amount of hogs on display for judging at the annual <a href="https://c.im/tags/IowaStateFair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IowaStateFair</span></a>. More people attend the average college football game in Ann Arbor Michigan than voted in the 2024 <a href="https://c.im/tags/Caucus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caucus</span></a>. Far more people attended a Women's Volleyball game in next door Nebraska last year as bothered to vote for <a href="https://c.im/tags/TrumpDeSantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpDeSantis</span></a> combined in this <a href="https://c.im/tags/GOPprimary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOPprimary</span></a>... gimme a break!</p><p>But do go on and keep basing wide ranging electoral predictions and prospects, and extrapolate millions of megabytes of media coverage on Iowa ? </p><p>Total voters tallied are basically equal only to the population of the state's third largest town Davenport. </p><p>I cannot even find out a tally of how many were female. The grand total is not even 15% of the state's registered <a href="https://c.im/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> voters.</p><p> Take this gushing <a href="https://c.im/tags/MassMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassMedia</span></a> re-coronation of <a href="https://c.im/tags/DJT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DJT</span></a> and his <a href="https://c.im/tags/Flex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Flex</span></a> with a grain of <a href="https://c.im/tags/salt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>salt</span></a> and realize we have a lot more diverse electorate nationally that may or may not be voting on far different issues and considering other information and candidates than a rural state that is one of Amurica's least diverse, with 90% caucasian citizenery in general, and even higher representation than that in the registered GOP voter base. </p><p><a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/iowa-caucus-voters-candidates-results-62448104" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wsj.com/politics/elections/iow</span><span class="invisible">a-caucus-voters-candidates-results-62448104</span></a></p>