For the FIRST TIME in US History a woman wins the Iowa Caucus!

[JaneyVee]

Great job Team HRC! Lets bring home the victory! #Herstory

[SamKnause]

1. Has there been an official announcement ???

[peacebird]

75. Not yet.

[w4rma]

2. 22 delegates each and 6 coin tosses. (nt)

[JaneyVee]

5. I guess you're forgetting superdels?

[w4rma]

9. Superdelegates are uncommitted. I'm not forgetting them, at all. (nt)

[JaneyVee]

12. Hillary has over 380 pledged superdels, Bernie has 6.

[John Poet]

15. They are not "pledged" legally, they are uncommitted.

They might have "pledged" that they will support her, which is not the same thing as a "pledged delegate" (which are ONLY awarded through primaries and caucuses). Superdelegates can change their mind at any time.

You don't get to count superdelegates as part of some "margin of victory" in a primary or caucus vote. That is dishonest, and not even technically true.

[JaneyVee]

16. Sure, right, ok.

[Joe the Revelator]

92. If you remember JV, and I'm sure you do,.....

....Hillary tried the ol' 'LOOK AT ALL MY SUPERDELEGATES!!!' in '08. They didn't stick with her then, did they?

Plus it just sounds tone-deaf to trumpet 'elite' delegates over voters. But hey, you do you!

[azurnoir]

43. pledged ya I guess that's the word

[Helen Borg]

57. Haha!

Then why is Hillary spending so much money? You know, if they are in the bag already?

[JDPriestly]

84. They can change their minds. Pledges are not legally binding are they?

[senz]

3. Where have I seen this before?

[bvf]

60. Well done!

We may be seeing herstory repeating itself.

I truly hope not, for the nation's sake.

[Vattel]

91. I am amazed that this vote was so close. I am glad no coin tosses were involved.

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[senz]

121. Thanks, Vattel.

Gee, you'd think the "winners" would be a little less prickly.

[riversedge]

93. I think it is WRONG to compare any Democratic Candiate to Bush. Shame on you

[Cali_Democrat]

4. K&R

To the greatest!

[Matariki]

6. She didn't win

It's a tie. But she did great and I'm happy for the historic accomplishment. It's going to be a long couple months!

[Lil Missy]

7. she was just named the apparent winner. So she did win

By a hair

[Matariki]

8. By who? Officially?

[BlueMTexpat]

63. By NPR and the Des Moines Register

among others.

Here's NPR: Clinton Edges Sanders In Iowa Democratic Caucuses; Cruz Wins On GOP Side
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/02/465193561/cruz-wins-iowa-republican-caucus-clinton-sanders-still-too-close-to-call

The Des Moines Register: Democrats missing 1 precinct, with Clinton as victor
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2016/02/02/some-democratic-precinct-results-unaccounted/79682184/

[JDPriestly]

85. That is a bit of a joke. Let's see how this turns out. Typical Clinton. Typical Clinton.

She needs to be patient and not just grab. The decision is not official.

It is unseemly for Hillary to declare herself the winner until it is official.

[Adrahil]

97. No, it's not unseemly...

Sheesh... Of all the most rifpdiculous complaints. There is ONE outstanding precinct. Clinton won this. It was narrow, but she won.

[JDPriestly]

98. Were there really six coin tosses? And did Hillary win all of them?

If so, the intent of the voters should be respected and those contests should be allocated three wins to Hillary and three to Bernie.

And if it turns out to be a tie, so be it.

The intent of the participants in the caucuses should be respected, not a coin toss result.

[Adrahil]

99. Apparently, yes. But....

Last edited Tue Feb 2, 2016, 09:29 AM - Edit history (1)

that's apparently the rule. Kinda weird.

[bettyellen]

123. 6/11,065 votes, and apparently it is not correct she won all six either.

[BlueMTexpat]

100. I'm not sure how you find it

"unseemly for Hillary to declare herself the winner" when the IA Dem Party, not Hillary, that has said so. ???

What is a joke - and a disgrace, IMO - is for supposed Democrats to make snarky remarks about Clinton on a Democratic website just because their candidate was not declared the winner by the IA Dem Party. I would not be making such remarks about Bernie if it were the other way around.

We had three excellent candidates. I am very sorry that MOM suspended his campaign because his ideas are every bit as progressive as Bernie's and his environmental proposals are the best of the three, IMO. But for me, he doesn't yet have the foreign policy gravitas or persona that I believe is necessary in this incredibly complex world. Bernie doesn't either. Voting against the IWR (which I agree was a great thing) is not a foreign policy. Listing foreign policy experts who haven't actually been "consulted" and aren't even sure why they're listed isn't a foreign policy. On-the-job learning in that area especially is no longer a luxury we can afford - if we really ever could.

While I love a lot of what he is saying, I know how things work in real life and it takes a person who has the full respect and support of the people that person must work with. It is quite telling that of all the Dems in both Houses of Congress, only two have endorsed Bernie so far. While some Bernie supporters may - unfairly, IMO - blame Hillary for this, it is telling that they prefer to work with her rather than with him.

Lasting change does not come with "revolution." Lasting change comes in increments. Revolution leaves chaos in its wake and in any leadership vacuum as usually happens with chaos, it is usually a despot who takes over, even if that despot begins with the best of intentions. Think French Revolution and Napoleon; think Russian Revolution and Lenin/Stalin; think of the breakup of the USSR, the chaos of the 1990s in Russia and the - practically inevitable - rise of Putin (who is actually revered in Russia right now, whatever we may think of him).

Of the three candidates, I believe that Hillary is the best comprehensively qualified candidate - able to step into the job on Day 1 and make it work as well as it ever has (which isn't saying much, given our dysfunctional system). While I like, admire and respect Bernie, I just don't see that happening.

I am sure that you disagree. But I hope that we can simply agree to disagree and not use snark.

[JDPriestly]

101. 1. It is a joke to win a caucus based on a coin toss. That is not a win. That is a joke.

They should divide the results of the coin tosses. If there were six coin tosses, three should go to Hillary and three to Bernie. Because my suggestion would represent the intent of the voters, and that is what elections are about.

2. Again, it is the intent of the voters that should determine whether Bernie wins, not the intent of politicians already seated in Congress and elsewhere. If we decided elections based on what sitting politicians wanted for the outcome, we could just do away with voters and let the sitting politicians decide. Democracy is about letting the voters, the people decide, and not about perpetuating the status quo byr letting the sitting politicians decide. Let the voters decide. I think the superdelegate system is a travesty of democracy. It should be abolished.

3. I agree with you that violent revolutions are horrible things. The French Revolution became violent and resulted in the rise of Napoleon. But Bernie is not suggesting a violent revolution. His supporters would not have the means or methods to conduct a violent revolution in this country. If you want violence, you have to look to the extreme right, not to the left at this time in America. We support gun control, not armed revolution. Bernie is talking about a democratic revolution. By "revolution" he means more voter and citizen participation not just in elections but in letting our voices and opinions be heard in governments from local to state to federal levels BETWEEN ELECTIONS. Think about the mid-term elections. We get low voter turn-out and Republicans win. That is happening over and over. Bernie's use of the word "revolution" means that we have drastic change with regard to political participation. I'm all for it. The word is a bit dramatic, but it certainly captures the change that needs to occur.

Actually, I think Bernie is the best qualified candidate. He was elected mayor of Burlington over and over and over and over. After his first term, he was elected by a good margin (suggesting voters were happy with his governance) and he DOUBLED voter turn-out. That is what his wife explained in a television interview last week. Thus, Bernie has more CEO or management experience in government than Hillary. Further, Bernie has served in Congress since 1992. That's a long time. Hillary has nowhere near that experience in Congress. Thus we can assume that Bernie knows the members of Congress (Budget committee, Veteran's committee, energy committee and others), knows how Congress works and in fact knows Congress better than any president since maybe Ford. Obama was in Congress only a short time. Hillary has spent only maybe six years at the most in Congress. Hillary was in the White House, but if she is taking credit for Bill's bills, the ones he signed like Welfare Reform, the sentencing act that increased sentences and has proved disastrous for minority communities, the repeal of Glass-Steagall the "reform" of the Commodity Futures Act, the bill that promoted consolidation of the media, etc., I don't think she should be elected. They were all bad, really bad measures. Hillary was Secretary of State, but . . . . ISIS. Need I say more. She made some good, but also some terrible decisions as Sec. of State. She said positive things about the TPP -- which will hurt working Americans. She said positive things about H1-B visas which also hurt working Americans.

In short, Bernie's experience is far, far better than Hillary's. And it shows in his focus and his speeches. Bernie is the winning candidate. If we do not nominate him, we are in for trouble in November. You read it here. I'm very firm in my conviction that we need to nominate and elect Bernie Sanders. And as you can see, my conviction is based on reason and not just on emotion.

[SammyWinstonJack]

118. +1000000

[w4rma]

10. If she won *anything*, she won a few coin tosses in a row. (nt)

[JaneyVee]

11. Lets be serious, this state Iowa was...

One of the states Bernie needed yo win to stay competitive. The demographics are right up his alley: 95% white state filled with college campuses.

[Matariki]

17. Blah blah blah

welcome back.

[JaneyVee]

19. Thanks, but you know Im right.

[Matariki]

21. Oh, word in the news is that Clinton spent 90% of her funds on Iowa

and all she has to show for it is a tie and a coin toss.

We'll see how the next month plays out. But we can toss bravado to pass the time

[JaneyVee]

45. Bernie outspent Hillary in Iowa.

[Matariki]

47. Well, I'm sure her super pacs will take care of her in the rest of the races.

Just like Jeb.

[Matariki]

55. btw

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/01/hillary-clinton-spent-roughly-90-percent-of-the-money-she-raised-over-the-summer/

[JaneyVee]

59. LOL. Read the date.

She then went on to break fundraising records and her campaign said that money was used to invest in the next caucus states i.e. offices, staff.

[riversedge]

103. Well worth it--Hillary has the mojo now

[Flying Phoenix]

116. She is not going to have time this week to meet and greet with the NH voters

between fundraisers and the debates before the next vote.

10% of what, 110 milion raised is what, 11 million? Bet that 10% is already spent and running a debt.

Bernie, on the other hand, just raised $20M in all of January and is doing fine, financially-wise, plus he has organizations in Super Tuesday states. Clinton barely has anything going.

Her SuperPACs can only do so much without "coordination".

[angrychair]

48. Revisionist history

He was losing in every polling average, every political pundit, every partisan hack from WaPo to DU, said he would lose by large margins. The polls walking in the doors said he would lose by 5 or points. All from a campaign that started in Iowa with a 60 point lead. From a campaign that had 90% of it's resources split between Iowa and their New York campaign headquarters. That had previous experience campaigning in Iowa.

All that being said, the best they could muster, with all that money, experience and media slant, was the tightest caucus results in Iowa state Democratic Party history.

Bernie Sanders has become the first Jewish person to be awarded delegates in a caucus or primary for POTUS in US history.

[JaneyVee]

62. Bernie had a +11 in a Iowa poll last week.

[angrychair]

74. In a single poll

RCP avg was Clinton +4

Huff Post avg was Clinton +4

FiveThirtyEight was Clinton +3.2 (MoM at 5.1% of vote which wasn't even close)

Sanders was working off a 60 pt deficit.

Despite starting in a losing position, he achieved a statistical tie (50/50) for a lot less money. It was a victory, no matter the spin.

[Fawke Em]

13. Gag.

A woman who knows nothing about real women.

[Live and Learn]

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[JaneyVee]

20. That was a pretty ridiculous comment though.

[Live and Learn]

22. I don't find it ridiculous. nt

[JaneyVee]

24. Why, because it says woman?

Would you think it was ridiculous if you switched the words woman with the word black or jew?

[Live and Learn]

27. Not if you were the one claiming to be one and the post was to you. nt

[JaneyVee]

29. Women all around the globe....

No matter what their socioeconomic status are oppressed.

[Fawke Em]

31. Yeah, by people like her.

[JaneyVee]

34. Spends her life fighting global poverty and AIDS...

Nice to see Bernie finally venturing outside his usual Vermont to DC roundtrip.

[Live and Learn]

56. Did she? Really??? nt

[Live and Learn]

32. I don't think you have any idea what oppression really is.

Tell us again about your maids and landscapers and money overseas. You still feel oppressed? And yet you vote to keep your money and leave others without health care?

I'd say more but DU doesn't allow it.

[JaneyVee]

33. Quick example of double standard:

What do you think the media (and some here) would say about a female candidate with disheveled hair who just shouted angrily and waved her arms around?

And again, women are oppressed no matter their socioeconomic status.

[Live and Learn]

36. I can only judge by Hillary supporters that did the same to Bernie. Luckily, that percentage is

quickly shrinking.

I don't think the majority of the country actually cares. Nor do we care what the media says. First time I've turned my tv on in months and I really didn't need to after all. The results on online were actually faster.

I am proud Bernie doesn't succumb to dying hair and make up like Hillary has. We should all be free to be who we actually are.

And YOU are not oppressed. You just don't appreciate all that you have been given or the people that worked so hard to give it to you.

[JaneyVee]

38. Lets be clear: If this Dem race was between 2 men....

People would have realized by now that one of them has no actual realistic policy plans and is just selling unicorns and fairy dust to his base.

[Live and Learn]

39. LOL Hillary added unicorns to her campaign tonight. Did you miss that? nt

[JaneyVee]

40. LOL at your last paragraph...

Ive been working since Im 14. I grew up poor in Brooklyn. I worked my way through high school and college and had to achieve twice as much to land the career i have now. I earned everything i have and am glad to be in a position give my 2 little boys a better childhood than i had.

[Live and Learn]

46. You are where you are thanks to previous generations that fought to ensure you weren't opressed.

I should think, having two little boys, might make you rethink your support of a war hawk. These wars seem to go on and on and little boys do grow up in the meantime.

Or maybe you suppose your (relatively) new found wealth and your resulting privilege will make your boys immune to the effects of war, climate change and jail.

[JaneyVee]

49. Bernie voted for more military action (Kosovo, Somalia, Afghan) and

Fund more wars than Hillary ever has. He even voted for HR Res 64 and Libya.

[JaneyVee]

52. Not Hillary.

[JaneyVee]

64. DO YOU REALIZE HOW FREAKING SEXIST YOU SOUND?

[Live and Learn]

69. Do you realize you are yelling? Not at all sexist.

Are you suggesting Hillary was couldn't have thrown her two cents in at the time?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

106. No more sexist than the OP.

[Live and Learn]

53. Because Hillary wasn't inoffice and didn't cast a vote either way. Such silliness is really beneath

you.

Hillary's hawkish stands on war with Iran and Syria is what should concern you with regard to your boys if not the planet.

[JaneyVee]

26. Thats like saying "an Af-American that knows nothing about real Af-Americans"

[prayin4rain]

82. wtf?

[Hortensis]

14. WOMEN won in Iowa, no matter the vote count.

Thank you, Hillary, for dragging this sledge further up the mountain for us. We'll never know just how much work went into just this little part, how hard and how stressful it was, but she's out there doing it as a way of life.

[JaneyVee]

35. Yikes!

[SunSeeker]

41. That is one ugly, sexist post. nt

[JTFrog]

113. Yea, he got a well deserved time out for that shit. n/t

[Number23]

129. And yet, I just came out of a thread where Sanders supporters are consoling each other by

pretending that it's HILLARY supporters that are angry. Because she won.

I didn't get it either.

[JTFrog]

133. Right?

They got some crazy projection going on.

I have no sads or angers that she won.

[Hortensis]

138. Balance is a nice thing! I wouldn't have alerted on

Fawke Em's revealing words, personally, because I think it's better for people to know just what sort of attitudes and behaviors are in play out there.

[Flying Squirrel]

77. Hey dude

I love ya but chill, this is a good day for Bernie and we don't need to be attacking Hillary's womanhood.

[frylock]

134. Dude is a woman.

[Starry Messenger]

78. Here's a crying towel.

[BlueMTexpat]

65. +1! eom

[Cary]

137. Love the positives

It's a pity that so many of our persuasion choose to see something else.

Our side is good. "Conservatism" is a dangerous ideology. Go Democrats.

[Hekate]

23. Woot!

[SunSeeker]

25. K & R

[ProudToBeLiberal]

28. Congrats to Hillary Clinton. A hard fought win.

The biggest difference from 2008 is that she did well in Polk, the county where Des Moines is located. I think in 2008 she came in third, but she handily beat Sanders here. Polk is the most populous county.

[Live and Learn]

37. So she won cause she didn't lose as bad as previously? Interesting concept. nt

[ProudToBeLiberal]

54. She won the caucuses outright.

I am just pointing the biggest change from her third place showing to her victory today. I'm telling you that Polk County played a big role. She would have lost by 5+ points to Sanders if Polk County didn'the omega through for her

I wonder what changed from 2008 to 2016 in Polk. Was their a demographic change? Or did Clinton's message just resonated here more?

[Live and Learn]

67. No Bush in office, perhaps?

The Iraq War while still being fought is a memory in some people's minds. And Bill's role in creating the current global economic and local disparities hasn't gotten through to everyone yet.

But it will. Bernie is doing a great job and people will see the real choice.

[ProudToBeLiberal]

70. You might be right, but I honestly thought Bernie would win Polk.

Maybe it might have been the gun issue? Bernie did a lot better in Western Iowa. Western Iowa was suppose to be Clinton'said stronghold, but Bernie did well.Polk was suppose to go for Bernie, but Clinton won it comfortably. A lot of the suburbs went for Clinton. I think the gun differences favored Clinton and that'she why she did so well in Polk.

[Firebrand Gary]

42. She did great!

I'm so happy with our candidates!

[SunSeeker]

44. Good point. nt

[countmyvote4real]

51. Woopy! Iowa likes my faux Democratic vagina better than your Socialist penis!

By a margin.

[BlueMTexpat]

68. This sounds a lot like "Sarah salad-speak." eom

[The Traveler]

66. As a Sanders supporter ... I really have to applaud this

It is a little piece of history, right there. Sure, I'd be happier if my guy had won the coin tosses. But sometimes its the other fella the gets lucky ... and in this case, that's the campaign of Secretary Clinton.

But how bad is it ... to "lose" by the narrowest margin in history to the first WOMAN to win the Iowa caucus? I just can't cry in my beer about this outcome.

I put "lose" in quotes because I think the Sanders campaign did what it had to do ... demonstrate its ability to produce votes beyond the predictions of the Nate Silver types, the pundits and the pollsters. And I think he did that ... so this is a strategic victory for my guy.

But it is also a victory for the first woman to win the Iowa caucus ... again, I ain't cryin' in my beer. I have this sense both camps achieved something real tonight.

This is going to be a long and interesting primary season.

Trav

[pandr32]

73. Thank you for your post and your sanity

Both camps did do well. Now onward we all go because there are 49 states ahead.
Hillary Clinton is the first woman to win the Iowa caucus--first women to win the White House coming up!

[Flying Squirrel]

79. Thanks for capturing what I was feeling

Much more eloquently.

[NNadir]

86. Thank you for your civility.

I actually can't read very much political stuff here without feeling tremendous pain at so many puerile attacks on either candidate.

I'm really undecided, although I increasingly lean toward Ms. Clinton, and I thank you for not implying, as some seem to do, that she is a right wing, neo-nazi, warmongering fascist wannabee. That kind of rhetoric does no one any service, particularly when we see how odious the Republican field is.

[riversedge]

95. Thank you. Hillary and her team has made HERstory in Iowa.

[bettyellen]

125. totally agree- great night for all Dems.

[hopemountain]

71. disagree. the people of iowa won tonight

they turned out in record numbers - all different walks of life.
hillary will act as though she won - but she knows it was a tie tonight with bernie. she knows it through and through. yes, she'll get up in a few hours to fight her fight to win any way she can - at all costs because she is a fighter and to be madam president & maintain the status quo is her goal. still, her dishonesty to her own self and her own truth will defeat her.

[JaneyVee]

72. It was not even close to record turnout.

140k in 2016. 240k in 2008.

[Flying Squirrel]

76. I will actually rec this thread

It may turn out not to be true, but I do not begrudge her supporters for celebrating the historical significance of this, if in fact it does hold up.

[riversedge]

94. Thank you. That was kind of you. And this morning, yes. it is true.

[riversedge]

80. The Force was with Hillary--->V-I-C-T-O-R-Y

Yes, it is official

The Force was with Hillary--->V-I-C-T-O-R-Y

[oasis]

81. More victories to come for a most remarkable woman.

[d_legendary1]

88. If she keeps winning like this

Expect President (insert Republican nominee here) to trounce her in the general. BTW I'm voting for her in the general if she wins the Nom, for all you alert trolls out there.

[oasis]

89. By the time the GE rolls around, the idea of a woman President

would have captured the imagination of Americans in every walk of life. Hillary's journey to the White House is sure to be an inspiring story.

[d_legendary1]

110. I doubt gender is an important issue

For Americans who are struggling to stay afloat or finding a job. I guess making history is more important than saving the middle class.

[oasis]

111. Woman's issues, infrastructure problems, unemployment. Hillary has

addressed everything under the sun that lines up with Democratic Party values. In addition, she is known to be miles ahead of Bernie when it comes to foreign policy.

[DonCoquixote]

128. foreign policy?

Hillary "assad must go" Clinton?

You know, when she finally gets that war with Syria or Iran that her friend Debbie has been praying for, I will wait to see people eat their words, but I will be too busy wondering which of my family members is getting sent off to the sandbox again to get shot at, probably with weapons obtained from Syrian "moderates."

[oasis]

132. Btw, has Bernie managed to come up with a FP adviser yet?

[riversedge]

83. Jamie Lee Curtis, Katy Perry and More Join Lena Dunham's #ImWithHer Campaign for Hillary Clinton

THANK YOU



Jamie Lee Curtis, Katy Perry and More Join Lena Dunham's #ImWithHer Campaign for Hillary Clinton

[Nuclear Unicorn]

105. Relevance?

[riversedge]

108. they were part of the team that helped Hillary win IOWA.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

109. Made famous for their political acumen, I'm sure.

[riversedge]

117. Whatever you say

[Nuclear Unicorn]

119. Has Tiger Beat named its candidate yet?

[frylock]

136. Shaun Cassidy

[SusanCalvin]

87. Thank you for mentioning that.

Very nice picture, too.

[Thinkingabout]

90. K & R, thanks for your post, beautiful.

[Alfresco]

96. Congrats to Team Hillary.

[grossproffit]

102. I like her.

[cascadiance]

104. Was Romney the first Mormon to win a caucus last election?...

... Er maybe not. They recounted later that close election and it was actually Santorum who won then.

Hmm....

[NurseJackie]

107. Love this painting of Hillary!!

(Or is it a digital manipulation of a photo to make it appear to be painted?) In any case, I love it!

[workinclasszero]

112. History was made!

[riversedge]

114. It is the real story coming out of Iowa IMHO

[mcar]

115. K&R

[lovuian]

120. Congratulations

Great race

[R B Garr]

122. K&R!

[DesertRat]

124. k&r!

[NCTraveler]

126. History!!!!

And we will continue fighting to get her into the White House!!!

[Iliyah]

127. First Female to win the IOWA Caucus. History was made.

She pulled it out, what a strong person and a great campaign!

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

130. Stop making this about gender. No one else gets to

[Gothmog]

131. This is a great accomplishment

[uponit7771]

135. +1