Talking Points Memo: 10 Things To Know About the Iowa Caucus
- Forty-one percent of Iowa voters still haven’t picked a candidate
- Democrats set up “war room” in Iowa
- Democrats attack Romney with Bain lay-off stories
- President Obama to address caucus-goers
- Mitt Romney campaign confident on caucus day
- Perry to skip New Hampshire, head to South Carolina after Iowa
- All the candidates will be holding final events throughout Iowa before settling in at their respective watch parties in the evening.
- How do the Republican Iowa caucuses work anyway?: TPM has a rundown of how voting takes place on caucus night.
- Candidates make closing arguments in Iowa
Programming note on tonight's debate
We’ll be doing a low-key liveblog of tonight’s Iowa debate, airing on ABC News tonight at 9 p.m. EST. The livestream will be here, and hopefully the debate will remain fun without Herman Cain. We’ll be using the hashtag #abcdebate to cover this on Twitter. Enjoy!
Apocalypse now? Donald Trump is going to moderate a debate.
Who would show up for such a thing? Likely everybody.
Though presidential candidates may initially balk at the idea of appearing in a debate where Mr. Trump – with his bombast and The Hair – is the one posing the questions, they may ultimately see it as an invitation they can’t refuse. In fact many of the candidates have already met with him, some more publicly than others. Representative Michele Bachmann has sat down with Mr. Trump several times this year. Gov. Rick Perry of Texas had dinner with him at Jean Georges, the posh Manhattan restaurant. And Mitt Romney paid a visit but carefully avoided being photographed.
And Newsmax is a powerful player itself. It has a broad reach into the conservative base, with monthly Web traffic second only to Fox News among sites with conservative-leaning audiences.
“Rick Perry’s your new leader in Iowa at 22% to 19% for Romney, 18% for Bachmann, 16% for Paul”
Tonight the GOP candidates prepare for a Debate in Iowa. As debates begin, the facial coding experts at Sensory Logic examine the looks of Republican hopefuls. Find out what emotional reactions—and votes—their faces are likely to garner. See the whole graph here!
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Iowan Republican: What you just did to Paul Ryan is unforgivable. Newt Gingrich: I didn’t do anything to Paul Ryan. Iowan Republican: You’re an embarrassment to our party. Newt Gingrich: I’m sorry you feel that way. Iowan Republican: Why don’t you get out before you make a bigger fool of yourself?
Must Watch: One brave college student took on the Iowa House of Representatives over what’s going on in his own house. Republicans in the Hawkeye State voted to ban gay marriage, even after hearing the moving statement from 19-year-old Zach Wahls who stood up in praise of his two mothers that raised him. - TheLastWord
“This is the reform that some folks in Washington are still hollering about. Still shouting about. Now that we passed it they’re already promising to repeal it. They’re actually gonna run on a platform of repeal in November, you’ve been hearing that. My attitude is GO FOR IT.”
