If your candidate doesn't poll 15% in Iowa, and you were caucusing, which

[Seabiscuit]

other leading candidate would you join up with?

N.B.: This poll assumes that only four candidates poll higher than 15%

[Debi]

1. UGH

:banghead:

Copied from another post:

a supporter of a non-viable candidate has many choices:

1) convince uncommitteds or supporters of other non-viable candidates to join their candidate and made them viable
2) join with a viable candidate
3) convince a supporter of a viable candidate (who has enough for one or two delegates but has 'left overs' and cannot reach that additional delegate) to join their candidate in order to make their candidate viable therefore keeping another viable candidate from receiving that delegate or keeping another candidate from becoming viable
4) stay with your candidate and just not be counted (or go home).
5) join with other non-viable caucus-goers and create an uncommitted group (that must reach the viability threshold in order to receive a delegate the same as any of the candidates do).

[sandnsea]

2. Biden won't hit 15%, poll is invalid n/t

[annie1]

3. what if biden has 8 and DK has 2 and Richardson has 6, can some of the latter 2 move to biden?

[sandnsea]

5. What if monkeys fly out your butt n/t

[KingofNewOrleans]

6. Yes

I'm guessing that there will considerable benefit to whoever in the 2nd tier is closest to being viable.

Of course, in the example you give, all the DK and Richardson people would have to more over to Biden

[TechBear_Seattle]

4. I would fight to get 15%, that's what I'd do

If that failed, I would stand for Undecided. If I could not do that, I would leave with no vote and feel extremely betrayed that I had wasted my time on this delusion called "democracy."

[Seabiscuit]

7. Well, no one seems to be in the mood for this poll.

Except for a bunch of Biden people who are voting.

[LWolf]

8. I would try to get enough people to

gather around any of the bottom tier, enough to make the 15%.

Of course, I'd like all the Dodd, Richardson, and Biden folks to support DK, lol, but I'd be willing to go with any of them to get 15% that didn't belong to the annointed 3.

[Seabiscuit]

9. If I were with the DK people I'd try to do that too,

but that's not the way it works in Iowa - unless you do it before the first round of caucusing. Because after the first round it's too late - either your delegates join one of the front runners or they just go home.