Sad.

And GREAT for Elizabeth and Pete! Good for them!

It was only a mock caucus. They should Chill out.

It is a weird display.

The bullying and intimidation that goes on with "certain" caucus-goers is disgusting!!!! It just goes to show how unfair and undemocratic the process is when individuals are denied a secret ballot and when a candidate's more aggressive and hostile supporters can use intimidation to garner "support" him (or her, yeah whatever).

like they are being directed to act out like this. Or maybe those were the drama students, lol. Throwing a tantrum because Warren won, so immature.

This is exactly how Sarandon was behaving. God, I hate that woman! She's such an idiot.

Ugh.

and isn't that surprising.

To be serious though, from the story it just sounds that they didn't bother about giving their support to an alternative. Maybe I've missed the protest part.

How is it that they didn't overwhelmingly vote for Bernie Sanders?

Hmm...that doesn't make any sense. Or does it?

Warren winning, I mean.

That much is certain.

But, what's your theory about why that university in Iowa didn't even have enough votes for Sanders to make him viable in their mock caucus? That seems very puzzling to me, somehow.

It's just, you know, odd...

Besides that, I have no idea...

actually out knocking on doors.

a different result. That must be a little daunting, really. I mean, if you're a Sanders fan.

We still have a long way until that's decided, IMHO.

Gird your loins.

I actually really like every other candidate(sans maybe bloomberg and meh on klobchar). That isn't the case for many of the non-Bernie folks. It will be harder to digest.

They may already know the rules and thus didn’t need to attend.

Who knows?

Maybe they're not, really, at least in conservative Iowa. I know nothing about Drake University in Des Moines, where this mock caucus took place. Who are the students. It's a private, small college. Probably most of the kids are white, with Republican parents. I don't know, though.

They're not Bernie fans, though, apparently. Like I said...odd...

claiming. Their claim is that the young vote is a leadpipe cinch for Bernie.

eom

They understand math, right?

Considering the venue, I'm not surprised at either.

Warren has been (quietly) investing in the grass roots for more than a year. Buttigieg used his early funding to build out his campaign apparatus across Iowa.

Beyond advertising and hiring questionable staffers, I'm not sure what else Sanders is doing with his money. He has a passionate following, but so does the Grateful Dead. Passion without direction is quite useless.

Thankfully.

The Sanders supporters didn’t stay to caucus for their second choice?

It's not protesting. It's sulking.

about who they'll support. If that's true then they will most likely be open to considering other candidates if the first name floated in the caucus was their initial pick and that person doesn't catch on during a discussion.

In other words - IT'S A TOSS UP IN IOWA!

and tell these people to grow and quit acting like that. If he can't even lead his own followers, how does he expect to win and lead a nation?

...when all is said and done and it is time to vote for our next president, those who are deeply disappointed their preferred candidate lost, they will take their marbles and go home and not vote. I think that happened in the last election.

the sample is too small to make any projections:

NBC News’ Maura Barrett, one of apparently a zillion or so reporters at this event, reported that Sanders got 21 votes in the first round, and was dwarfed by Warren at 73 and Mayor Pete at 47.

And the college is atypical.