I have read, watched and listened to days of breathless #Political #HorseRace coverage of the #GOP #IowaCaucus and not once has any #media outlet mentioned that the results are a pretty poor sampling of a small fractional #minority of the state's voters who even bother to #engage in #VoterParticipation
... 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.
If you added up all the votes for Tangerine Palpatine, plus
the Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley campaigns in the most populous city of #DesMoines, it still doesn't equal the total amount of hogs on display for judging at the annual #IowaStateFair. More people attend the average college football game in Ann Arbor Michigan than voted in the 2024 #Caucus. Far more people attended a Women's Volleyball game in next door Nebraska last year as bothered to vote for #TrumpDeSantis combined in this #GOPprimary... gimme a break!
But do go on and keep basing wide ranging electoral predictions and prospects, and extrapolate millions of megabytes of media coverage on Iowa ?
Total voters tallied are basically equal only to the population of the state's third largest town Davenport.
I cannot even find out a tally of how many were female. The grand total is not even 15% of the state's registered #Republican voters.
Take this gushing #MassMedia re-coronation of #DJT and his #Flex with a grain of #salt 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.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/iowa-caucus-voters-candidates-results-62448104
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