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Clinton Beats Sanders in Iowa by 0.29%

So when does Hillary Clinton deliver on her star power? When does she show the Democratic Party that she is as awesome a candidate as her resume suggests she can be?

Clinton comes into the 2016 Presidential election with, as 2008 Clinton Iowa campaigner Grant Woodard puts it, “pretty much every institutional advantage a candidate could dream of having“:

Hillary Rodham Clinton
On to New Hampshire….

With all those advantages, Clinton storms into Iowa and beats her only serious challenger, a cranky old Jewish white guy who used to be mayor of Burlington, Vermont, who calls himself a socialist, and who as Senator from Vermont distanced himself from the Democratic Party by registering as an Independent until just last November, by a mere 0.29%.

The Iowa caucus is a real vote, not a poll with statistical error. Clinton’s 50.1% to 49.8% win is a win, not the “virtual tie” that Bernie Sanders said last night in his almost-victory (again, no such thing) speech. As Ted Cruz and everyone else will be reminding Donald Trump all week, no one remembers second place.

Hillary Clinton just needs to win. She won last night in Iowa… but barely, just barely, against a radical idealist whom she should have creamed with her hard-headed pragmatism. Maybe that’s part of the problem: Hillary Clinton tells us to settle for the best we can do, while Bernie Sanders tells us we can do better.

Now we see who does better in New Hampshire and South Carolina… and whether the Inevitable, Unstoppable Hillary Clinton ever shows up.

p.s.: To soothe our Hillary–Bernie angst, we Democrats can take double pleasure in the GOP caucus results, in which Iowegians have shown the blessed sanity not to give Donald Trump first place while still ensuring a Democratic win by thinking their best choice to replace our glorious nerd president is an unlikable dork. Seriously: envision Ted Cruz face to face with Clinton or Sanders, and tell me how in any cosmos Americans pick Ted Cruz to be their leader.

82 Comments

  1. Jason Sebern 2016-02-02 07:42

    It is hard to get excited about a Hillary presidency if you are a Democrat. She represents the current economic system that is not working for most Americans …

  2. M.K. 2016-02-02 07:53

    I think Hillary is competent. But, I think people are looking at the Clintons as part of the establishment. Time will tell.

  3. Rorschach 2016-02-02 08:01

    I don’t know who the GOP nominee will be. But if Hillary is the Democratic nominee then we will all go into November worrying about her e-mail scandal and not knowing whether she can win. Is this all we’ve got? Wishing Elizabeth Warren would step in.

  4. Jenny 2016-02-02 08:14

    Bernie would make a decent president. Who could not be against his values of a living wage, opening up Medicare for all ,promoting peace in the world in stead of War.
    Bernie is the real deal. Trump is just scary and Hillary is part of the establishment.

    Bernie voted against authorization for use of military forces in Iraq. What a refreshing old style Democrat. Go Bernie!

  5. Greg 2016-02-02 08:15

    If it turns out to be a Clinton vs Trump race in November to me it looks as we all lose. We could do a hell of a lot better from both parties.

  6. Jenny 2016-02-02 08:19

    If you want another 8 years of Obama, then vote for Hillary. If you want an even darker eight years reminiscent of W with more war and Wall Street corruption and tax cuts for the rich, and LGBT and muslim paranoia than your guy is Cruz or the Loud Mouth.
    Trump lost last night because his bullying style doesn’t work in the Midwest.

  7. Union Co 2016-02-02 08:26

    The problem with Hillary is trust as she proved in the last election that she sometimes forgot the facts., and she is prone to exaggeration of her accomplishments. She was late to say she would not support the TPP or the KXL pipeline, but with her past connections she could easily change her mind on those two very important issues if she were to be elected.

  8. jerry 2016-02-02 08:47

    Bernie Sanders actually won last night, no matter how you slice and dice it. There are some issues in Iowa like there always are with vote counting and the like. Take a look at what Martin O’malley accomplished there and it could be said that those votes could well go to Bernie for the delegates. Mrs. Clinton can crow and establishment Democrats can speak of a victory, but they do so with an asterisk. The American people saw something last night that should both scare the hell out of them on the republican side and give them something worth fighting for on democratic side and that is to defeat Cruz with a Bernie Sanders presidency.

  9. tom pokela 2016-02-02 08:47

    We have a great chance to keep the republicans out of the white house. Unfortunately, Bernie isn’t going to do it. The chances of a socialist being elected are the same as mine.

  10. jerry 2016-02-02 08:59

    This guy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsljaodGb4Q , scares the hell out of the elitist Democrats as they see the same tide of discontent with them that has threatened their power. We have the same kind of crap here in South Dakota that has been shown over and over with the way candidates are picked and then the results. Maybe with Bernie Democrats can demand a change and fight for it here so we can actually have a two party type of government to help prevent some of the crooked shenanigans we have witnessed recently with the EB5 Gear Up to name two.

  11. Jenny 2016-02-02 08:59

    I agree, Jerry. A recount could easily go in Bernie’s direction. There were people that stayed home b/c of the storm, but surprisingly record numbers of voters did turn out. This contest isn’t over by any means.

  12. Porter Lansing 2016-02-02 09:05

    For the past painful year, the Republican presidential contenders have been bombarding Americans with empty propaganda slogans and competing, bizarrely, to present themselves as the least experienced person for the most important elected job in the world. Democratic primary voters, on the other hand, after a substantive debate over real issues, have the chance to nominate one of the most broadly and deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history. – Morning Consult

  13. Lynn Ryan 2016-02-02 09:14

    A commentator yesterday in reference to the Democratic caucus referred to Iowa as a very liberal state! Is that a reliable statement?

  14. Porter Lansing 2016-02-02 09:19

    Republican Haybillies … This Texas con-man Cruz says the name of Jesus three times in a row and he gets your Evangelical’s vote? You Republicans might as well be voting for BeetleJuice.

  15. Jenny 2016-02-02 09:23

    Porter, name calling doesn’t solve anything.

  16. caheidelberger Post author | 2016-02-02 09:40

    Lynn Ryan: Iowa liberal? They elect people like Joni Sanders, Steve King, and Terry Branstad, but by voting history, they look more like Minnesota than South Dakota. Check out the red/blue maps on Wikipedia:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states

    Mike from Iowa, other Iowa experts, what do you think? Is Iowa notably liberal? What advantages does a socialist have there over Clinton that he won’t have elsewhere?

  17. Lynn Ryan 2016-02-02 09:44

    A commentator yesterday in reference to the Democratic caucus referred to Iowa as a very liberal state. I thought I hadn’t heard right!

  18. larry kurtz 2016-02-02 09:45

    We’ve said for months that Iowa and New Hampshire are two of the best states for Sanders demographically. You can see why in the entrance poll taken in Iowa. Sanders won very liberal voters over Clinton by 19 percentage points, but he lost self-identified somewhat liberals and moderates to Clinton by 6 percentage points and 23 percentage points, respectively.

    http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bernie-sanders-needs-more-than-the-tie-he-got-in-iowa/?ex_cid=538twitter

  19. Jenny 2016-02-02 10:06

    Young twenty somethings are flocking to Bernie. Like I’ve always said, this will be ALL about getting young voters and minorities to the booth. We are in a much more enviable position than the GOP in this aspect.

  20. Jenny 2016-02-02 10:08

    Where is Mike from Iowa? Can Bernie ask for a recount? Or claim a tie?

  21. Porter Lansing 2016-02-02 10:24

    Wrong Wrong Wrong, Jenny. Ridicule and name calling is a quite valid tool against the Republican oppression in South Dakota. Where has the Democratic milquetoast, “intellectual in the ivory tower” approach gotten you, so far? Zilch and falling.➴➴➴ Ridicule of Nixon and his goon squads along with civil disobedience was consequential in ending the Vietnam War and saved thousands from death and dismemberment. SoDak Dems may not all be capable of being a “Blue Trump” but I can and you can just watch how the Big Red Bullies react. It’s already working as the state’s turning purple as sure as Winter’s white.

  22. Don Coyote 2016-02-02 10:38

    @cah: “The Iowa caucus is a real vote, not a poll with statistical error. Clinton’s 50.1% to 49.8% win is a win, not the “virtual tie” that Bernie Sanders said last night in his almost-victory (again, no such thing) speech”

    Except the Democratic Iowa caucus acts more like the Electoral College with the emphasis being on delegates won which then go on to a later caucus at the county conventions where delegates to the district convention and state convention are chosen. Clinton got lucky, literally, winning two of the precincts by coin toss. If not for Lady Luck, Comrade Bernie would have been the winner. If even one toss had gone his way, he’d have his tie. Ignore the two tied precincts and the delegate count is tied. Clinton owns a Pyrrhic victory at best. With his strong showing in Iowa, Sanders should steamroll Clinton in New Hampshire, his backyard, where he already owns a commanding 20+ point lead in the polls. Clinton’s firewall lies in South Carolina.

  23. Loren 2016-02-02 10:38

    I am not saying that I don’t like some of Bernie’s ideas, but if a black Muslim President form Kenya (as painted by the loving folks of the GOP) can’t get any of his ideas passed thru congress, what chance do you think a grumpy old Jewish white guy with liberal ideas will have? If you think any of his ideas will get traction, … A little cooperation would be nice, but since Ronald told us that, “government IS the problem…” and W told us that, “you are either with us or against us,” things seem to have come to a stop!

  24. Kris 2016-02-02 10:40

    wall street big company hacks all owned by the MAN! Vote Green party!

  25. Porter Lansing 2016-02-02 10:54

    Loren,
    Our President Obama has been the most progressive and productive leader since FDRoosevelt.
    The “superwealthy” agenda against big government is simply a plan to keep them from paying their fair share. As any of us know who shop at Costco, things are cheaper when a large group of consumers band together and bargain down the price. Who knows why low income Republicans believe big gov’t is the problem? It’s because if you stand up there hugging a gun and a bible and make the poor people the problem you can fool most of those people most of the time.

  26. Richard Schriever 2016-02-02 11:10

    Don Coyote is correct. This was not a victory for Clinton so much as it was for the laws of probability. And it wasn’t 2 precincts won by coin toss by Clinton – it was 3.

  27. Don Coyote 2016-02-02 11:31

    @Kris: Oh joy, another Quixotic run by Jill Stein. You think she’ll crack 500K votes in 2016? What is the fascination that Libs/Progressives have with old, white haired candidates?

  28. Mark Winegar 2016-02-02 11:57

    Hillary’s narrow win comes down to a coin toss. Ties in 5 precincts were broken in coin tosses and she won each one. Even with such incredible luck she won by only 0.29%. Given all of her advantages that’s not much of a victory. On the other hand, Bernie has proven he is a contender.

  29. caheidelberger Post author | 2016-02-02 12:02

    Kris, I think I told you before, the Green Party is irrelevant to our discussion until the Green Party makes the effort to petition itself to official party status in South Dakota. Stop shouting, start circulating.

    Don and Mark make a good point about the coin flips making Clinton’s win as much a product of luck as anything else. The fact that Team Clinton needed lucky coin flips to beat a longshot socialist casts all the more doubt on her ability to seal the deal.

  30. Roger Cornelius 2016-02-02 12:35

    A win is a win, whether it be by 4 votes or 4,000.
    Does the Super Bowl ever end in a tie?

  31. Don Coyote 2016-02-02 12:39

    @Roger: The Super Bowl doesn’t end after the 1st quarter.

  32. Roger Cornelius 2016-02-02 12:51

    Don,
    Duh! Of course the Super Bowl doesn’t end after the first quarter, but there is an eventual winner.

    CNN and the Iowa Democratic Party have declared Hillary the winner of the Democratic Iowa Caucus.

  33. Don Coyote 2016-02-02 12:59

    It’s now being reported that Clinton won 6 coin tosses in deadlocked precincts last night.

    “Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won six back-to-back coin tosses against opponent Bernie Sander’s camp at a half-dozen Iowa precincts where voting results were too close to call Tuesday morning — a mathematical feat that raised eyebrows and a few questions.”

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/coin-toss-decides-clinton-sanders-tie-iowa-precinct-article-1.2517022

  34. Porter Lansing 2016-02-02 13:07

    Hey, Sen. Sanders is legit. Why the low self-esteem among his supporters? He did well. Didn’t you expect him to? You don’t have to beg for a better finish in the Iowa caucus. What about South Carolina and Nevada? Places where white people don’t run the joint.

  35. larry kurtz 2016-02-02 13:12

    It’s now being reported that Ted Cruz is waaay crazier than Donald Trump and that Marco Rubio is scripted, plastic, shrill and burning through his money faster than fuel through an F-35.

  36. Daniel Buresh 2016-02-02 13:39

    I heard something like 85% of voters under the age of 30 went for Bernie. I don’t know how any real democrat can pick Hildawg unless they are basing it on party alone for fear of losing to Repubs. I have also talked with a few that are basing it on gender because they want a female president. Stupid stupid stupid. This election is almost guaranteed to go to the dems unless they find some way to lose it. I don’t think Cruz or Trump are electable. I’m ready for the grey hairs and their archaic beliefs to die off already. There is no more entitled group of people than baby boomers.

  37. larry kurtz 2016-02-02 13:58

    “Age 65+: +43% for Hillary
    Age 45-64: +23% for Hillary
    Ages 30-44: +21% for Bernie
    Ages 17-29: +70% for Bernie” via Katrina vandenHeuvel.

    After she is nominated Secretary Clinton’s challenge will indeed be with younger voters. Women will cross over. She needs to start talking about legal cannabis and a path to universal health care if she wants Bernie’s kids.

  38. leslie 2016-02-02 14:10

    Ever More Right Wing NPR Reports Today Trey Gowdys Attack Dog Uncovered The Clinton Email Story. Is That True Or Just Evidence Of The Rights Infiltration And Takeover Of Formerly Reliable NPR In Election Season–Like Koch/Murdoch Takeovers Of Nova WSJ And now natl Geographic???

  39. jerry 2016-02-02 14:26

    Joni Ernst is not a liberal Lynn, she does have one helluva sow call though. Steve King is not a liberal, he does seem a little weird though as he likes to look at men’s legs. Terry Dumbsted, the governor, is just a little bit crazy. but not a liberal. What else does Iowa have going that is not liberal, a lot. Evangelicals up the wahzoo there as well, a long way for a Democrat to go to find hope, except for last night and the road to it. These young folks want change, real change and they are willing to fight for it. Lets see if that sense of fight crosses the border into South Dakota. Do we have get out the vote planned for November or are we gonna wait until October 15 to try that on?

  40. leslie 2016-02-02 14:34

    Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse!!!

    Agree W/ chefs Quote.

    Rubio Is The Young Star Buut Cweepy Cruz Will Eat Him Alive Unless Enlisting The Kid For VP. Hilary Has Got This. Imo. Its Early. Lotz A Money At Play.US Of Las Vegas We Are!

  41. leslie 2016-02-02 15:04

    Coyote- u still reading NYDN headlines?

    Establishment/trust Is Red Pablum.

    Agree W Morning Consult.

    Bernie will do in a pinch. Hil has got this. the women are about to speak despite big$, Cruz Cweepiness even if marco takes VP run.imo

    Btw Fairfield Ia. Is Full Of Beatles’ marahrishi Educated Movers And Shakers Who R Liberal!

  42. Jenny 2016-02-02 15:13

    What are you trying to say, Leslie?

    The Clintons and Bushes just need to go away. Americans are sick of both entitled families.
    Sanders seems like a pretty decent man. I don’t think any dirt has been found on him yet.

  43. larry kurtz 2016-02-02 15:17

    Who’d be a good running mate for Senator Sanders?

  44. Porter Lansing 2016-02-02 15:25

    Who are you to say what citizens of USA are sick of? You live in a state that’s as white as winter. PS…there are 55 countries that call themselves Americans. And every damn one of them is as entitled to be named American as USA.

  45. Porter Lansing 2016-02-02 15:27

    Julian Castro will be the next Vice President of USA.

  46. mike from iowa 2016-02-02 15:42

    Joni Sanders? It is Ivana Kuturnutzov former KGB agent(Joni Ernst).iowa is not liberal and not totally conservative or conversant,for that matter. We are tipping slightly towards a more conservative bent thanks to western iowa being solidly red. Ernst and ding-a-ling King represent the worst side of the wingnuts.

    Sorry for late reply. I have been battling nasty back spasms for the past three days.

  47. mike from iowa 2016-02-02 15:45

    As for HRC-she will immediately prove she is not Obama by appointing rwnj to every cabinet spot and more Scalias to the Scotus, under the threat of immediate impeachment by the house and Sinate if Dems don’t gain control.

  48. Porter Lansing 2016-02-02 16:35

    Good luck with the spasms, Mike. Pain hurts. Thinking good vibes t’wards ‘ya.

  49. Rorschach 2016-02-02 17:06

    President Obama and the Justice Department not indicting Hillary Clinton for improper handling of classified information (ala David Petraeus) is like Gov. Daugaard and Marty Jackley giving a pass to Joop Bollen and Mike Rounds. If you’re in the party in charge the laws don’t apply to you. President Obama ought to indict Hillary, and the sooner the better so that the party can coalesce around a viable candidate who hasn’t compromised classified information through plain arrogance and stupidity.

  50. Porter Lansing 2016-02-02 17:25

    C’mon, man. You can’t reclassify documents and hold the employee responsible for the new classification. Ex post facto laws are expressly forbidden by the United States Constitution in Article 1, Section 9, Clause 3 (with respect to federal laws) and Article 1, Section 10 (with respect to state laws).

  51. larry kurtz 2016-02-02 17:37

    Using the State Department metric Condi Rice and Colin Powell should have been indicted long ago.

  52. grudznick 2016-02-02 17:39

    Razor thin margins if coin tosses are determining things at this stage. It will widen out, mark grudznick’s words. I am surprised Mr. Sanders did so well and I am proud of him.

    That fellow out by Deerfield who won’t have his septic system inspected because he knows it’s leaking poop into his neighbor’s water supplies uses that term all the time, Mr. Lansing. Ex Post Factoid. I think he’s left over from the Posse Comitatus we had around these parts in the ’70s. I don’t remember what it means.

  53. Porter Lansing 2016-02-02 17:45

    That’s a little different. That’s Ex Post Mortem as he has a dead body decomposing in his septic tank and he’s waiting for the lye to do it’s job.

  54. Douglas Wiken 2016-02-02 18:02

    The GOP witch hunt will make more “secret” information available than all of the messages reclassified as “secret” and “top secret”.

    I think it will be more than a bit amusing if all the attempts by the GOP to skewer Hillary as a viable candidate give them a campaign against Bernie Sanders.

    I can barely stand to listen to Hillary, but even she is exponentially better than the GOP crazies and all got about 25% last night in Iowa.

  55. grudznick 2016-02-02 18:14

    Mr. Wiken, I always enjoy when you talk about witches.

  56. Porter Lansing 2016-02-02 18:38

    I get it. Witches … wiken. Good one.
    I just like the way Hillary smiles. Reminds me of my late mother.

  57. Daniel Buresh 2016-02-02 18:45

    Any other low-level gov’t employee would have had their butt handed to them and they would still be sitting in jail waiting for the investigation to end. There is no way justifying her moves.

  58. BOHICA 2016-02-02 19:41

    just speaking for myself, I do not trust Hillary…I think she is deceptive…but again just me.

    As much as I like Iowa and the upper Midwest as we are referred to…none of those state’s carry enough electoral weight to be more than a pimple on an elephant’s butt…or donkey if you want…we may play a small roll in a close race or a tie breaker…but keep everything in perspective.

  59. Rorschach 2016-02-02 20:33

    I have seen it reported, Porter, that Hillary never had an official government e-mail account. If that is true then either she never received or sent any classified e-mails, which is impossible for anyone – even Nixonian partisans like you – to believe. Or she mishandled the classified information that she did send or receive by running it – all of it – every e-mail – through an unsecured private server. The fact that even the State Department under President Obama won’t release e-mails that were found on her private server tells me there was stuff there that shouldn’t have been there.

    Hillary didn’t run her e-mails through a private server for the public benefit. She did it to circumvent FOIA laws on the public nature of public communications. The exposure of sensitive and classified information was just a side effect of her goal to illegally hide her correspondences from the public. Remember, she deleted most of her e-mails before ever turning over the server to the government. She believes she’s above the law, and her machinations have potentially exposed government secrets. She should be charged criminally.

  60. jerry 2016-02-02 20:58

    Spot on Mr. Rorschach. What is worse is that President Obama is going along with this charade. I think that if she is elected, she had better have a clean vice president, because the republicans will have her fanny impeached in short order. If we cannot remember the last Clinton fiasco, you can look it up and see ol’ white hair, Henry Hyde looking all solemn packing those impeachment papers on William Jefferson Clinton. That vice president better be vetted by the Pope.

  61. Porter Lansing 2016-02-02 23:01

    No Keystone XL in the heartland…nice job, USA

  62. Dave Baumeister 2016-02-02 23:13

    I was born in Clinton, Iowa.

  63. grudznick 2016-02-02 23:36

    That’s a horrible thing to have to live with, Mr. Baumeister. Rest easy knowing the horror is not your fault and could not likely have been forseen that many dozens of years ago. I know many towns are going to change their names but you should not let that diminish your personal sense of self worth, sir.

  64. grudznick 2016-02-02 23:40

    Sorry about your mother, Mr. Lansing. I am sure she was very proud of you and also helped with your haircuts.

  65. caheidelberger Post author | 2016-02-03 06:03

    Mike! Sorry to hear about the back! Was it induced by the weight of all those political ads? :-)

    As I said at the Front Porch Forum here in Aberdeen last November in response to Susan Wismer’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton, Sanders is my guy, but Clinton will do all right as President, too. I would prefer marching to war with the Republican spin machine to defend Sanders because the attacks on him are almost entirely about policy, not personality. Defending Clinton gets us mired in all sorts of personality arguments, like the e-mail kerfuffle. We can dress the e-mail issue up in legality and call for indictment, but we’re not really talking about a major public policy with impacts on the general welfare; we’re talking about a personal choice Clinton made for personal reasons that reflect primarily on our perception of her personality. Candidate Sanders gives us more policy debates and offers fewer distractions for the GOP nominee and superPACs to grab onto.

    Clinton is supposed to be better than this, but she hasn’t proven it. She has won two elections in the safe territory of New York. She ran as the favorite and lost to a rookie Senator whose name rhymed with radical Muslim public enemy #1 at the time. Clinton is the Yankees, and Sanders is the Twins—she should be playing better ball than this.

  66. mike from iowa 2016-02-03 06:41

    Had my first back operation for degenerative disc disease in 1979 at age 26. I farmed for nearly 10 years after [I’d love to save the world-:) ] 4th operation. Forced to retire at age 56. Degenerative disks don’t get better with age. Anyway,the spasms come and go just like the years go by.

    Someone mentioned above that iowa doesn’t amount to a hill of beings in the overall scheme of elections and that is too true. First in the nation caucus makes lots of money for the bigger cities as pols and journalists flock around looking for any story they can root out.

  67. mike from iowa 2016-02-03 06:56

    Dave Baumeister, are you a teacher or have you ever been a teacher in NW iowa?

  68. Rorschach 2016-02-03 10:23

    Looking forward to that movie, Jerry.

    And all this talk about our military being neglected and weak under President Obama is a bunch of GOP party hogwash. Our military is the strongest in the world several times over from the next strongest. We don’t need to occupy Europe anymore. We don’t need overpriced and defective F-35 planes. We don’t need to start and prosecute wars all over the world. We don’t need to buy our friends by giving arms to Israel and others, though I’m ok with selling military goods to our allies. Time to give some tough love to our free rider allies and to the military industrial complex by putting them on a very strict diet.

  69. jerry 2016-02-03 10:31

    Something else worth noting is that Clinton is not as popular among women as most thought she would be. This race will become more and more interesting as it goes to the wire. I still think that Bernie has a legitimate shot at the whole thing. http://www.versobooks.com/books/2121-false-choices

  70. mike from iowa 2016-02-03 12:02

    Barry,my lungs aren’t in good shape,plus I have congestive heart failure. Just breathing is a chore sometimes. I know of the benefits of pot,I just don’t have the lung capacity to use it.

  71. leslie 2016-02-03 13:40

    mfi-me too, 7 years later. without a village we don’t learn to pace ourselves. btw, HRC wrote that book. every bend and lift in society costs someone. workers comp protects the employer from the real cost born of worn out workers. cannon fodder. republicans. daugaard fighting Medicaid expansion yet giving away the “farm” to joop. WISMER WOULDN’T. CLINTON WOULDN’T

    is this clear jenny?

  72. Richard Schriever 2016-02-03 17:49

    Rorschach – speaking of “viable candidates” – Cruz = Canadian. Not eligible for the office. But Iowegian repubs want him anywho.

    Re: the “unsecured private server” – what would you know about the security of that machine? OR it’s connecting devices?? The whole “unsecured” aspect of your charge is purely speculation.

  73. caheidelberger Post author | 2016-02-04 06:47

    (Mike, yes, Baumeister has taught at O’Gorman, Yankton, and Tea. I visited with him at a recent debate tournament: his latest gig is teaching GED classes at the Pen in Sioux Falls. Good guy, and tough work!)

  74. caheidelberger Post author | 2016-02-04 06:50

    Leslie, I agree that Wismer and Clinton are both very intelligent women, qualified to lead.

    Richard, I am glad that the Cruz candidacy finally takes the Obama birther nonsense off the table… or does it just intensify it among the Trumpers and others fighting for a different nominee?

  75. jerry 2016-02-04 08:22

    Clinton has now shown the intelligence to deny she voted for the Iraq War at a forum in New Hampshire. Of course, there are no quotes and no videos of her saying otherwise, real smart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkS9y5t0tR0

  76. Rorschach 2016-02-04 08:49

    Richard Schriever, you’re a birther – really?

    As resistant to reason as birthers are you may still be able to educate yourself by reading the numerous news reports about Clinton’s server and the likelihood it has been hacked by the Chinese, Russians, and any number of others. You may also note that there is nobody anywhere claiming that the sensitive information found on Clinton’s server should have been outside of the State Department system at all.

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