Forum Groups

 

Forums / Politics / Iowa is coming

Iowa is coming

15 posts
  1. Joel Rhodes
    Joel Rhodes avatar
    0 posts
    1/26/2016 7:01 AM
    Who wins Iowa and does it matter?



  2. Peter Bowman
    Peter Bowman avatar
    11 posts
    1/26/2016 8:01 AM
    Joel Rhodes said: Who wins Iowa and does it matter?


    Ask Rick Santorum if Iowa matters.



  3. Frank McQuiggan
    Frank McQuiggan avatar
    2 posts
    1/26/2016 2:01 PM
    Im doing a write in on the ballot this year, Jerry and Dusty!



  4. Peter Bowman
    Peter Bowman avatar
    11 posts
    1/26/2016 9:01 PM
    Frank McQuiggan said: Im doing a write in on the ballot this year, Jerry and Dusty!


    Jerry and Dusty? Who are they?



  5. Joel Rhodes
    Joel Rhodes avatar
    0 posts
    1/27/2016 4:01 AM
    With Trump "standing up" for himself and not being a part of the FOX debate I think maybe Cruz will close the gap. That is scary in its own right. Frank I appreciate the right in but that is certainly a job that I do not want. No way would I pass that background check!



  6. Sandy Clark
    Sandy Clark avatar
    0 posts
    1/27/2016 9:01 AM
    It will be interesting to see just how close or far off the talking heads and pollersters will turn out to be.



  7. Sandy Clark
    Sandy Clark avatar
    0 posts
    1/27/2016 9:01 AM
    Nice spelling, should be pollsters but my fingers and brain are not working in sync with each other today!



  8. Melvin Waldron
    Melvin Waldron avatar
    43 posts
    1/27/2016 10:01 AM
    Sandy Clark, CGCS said: Nice spelling, should be pollsters but my fingers and brain are not working in sync with each other today!


    Then you qualify to run for president.

    The field on both sides are kind of sad. Interesting to hear this morning on Morning Joe about President Obama being more of a centrist in policy and action. The commentator thought that was why there is great interest in both Trump and Sanders. I like some of Senator Sanders ideas, but don't quite go to far left with him. Free college? College has turned into to big of a business in my opinion, but if they would lower student loan rates to maybe 1% and maybe helped subsidized some of the cost to hold tuition down, might be helpful. I don't agree with all the different taxes he would implement to pay for some of his ideas, or I should say, I haven't quite done the math. A payroll tax for healthcare? I need to compare it to what I pay for insurance now.

    Secretary Clinton seems to be the closest to President Obama especially in foreign policy and how to handle it. Saw Secretary Gates on Meet the Press and without naming names, he is not a fan of the heavy handed policies of "carpet bombing" rhetoric coming from the right. I think Secretary Gates would make a very good candidate for president. I just worry that Secretary Clinton has too much baggage and is too polarizing as well.

    I try to give some of the more moderate Republican candidates a try, like Governor Christie, but he seems to thin skinned and combative, maybe Governor Kasich?

    Mel

    Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO

  9. Steve Nelson
    Steve Nelson avatar
    0 posts
    1/27/2016 11:01 AM
    Melvin Waldron, CGCS said: The field on both sides are kind of sad.


    100% agree. Can't believe this is the best this country can offer. I'm sitting this one out.



  10. Steven Huffstutler
    Steven Huffstutler avatar
    11 posts
    1/27/2016 5:01 PM
    Steve Nelson, CGCS said:
    Melvin Waldron, CGCS said: The field on both sides are kind of sad.


    100% agree. Can't believe this is the best this country can offer. I'm sitting this one out.


    It's not likely to get any better anytime soon. The candidates that I would like to vote for are polling at about 0.



  11. Joel Rhodes
    Joel Rhodes avatar
    0 posts
    1/28/2016 2:01 AM
    That is the sad state that our system is in. I wince every time I hear about Candidate so and so trying to impress this or that big donor. IT isn't about policy or people anymore at all. It is about who can raise the most money to televise attacks about the other opponents. So far SEC Clinton and SEN Sanders have been some what humane to each other. The other side is just a hate filled group bent on making the other people look bad more than themselves look Presidential.

    It will be interesting to see which two rise above in the end.



  12. Peter Bowman
    Peter Bowman avatar
    11 posts
    1/28/2016 7:01 AM
    I've got to give Iowa credit. They wrote into law that they have to be the first state to hold primaries (caucus in Iowanian). The amount of money spent there because of that law is staggering, to me. All the hotel rooms, restaurant meals, etc., when campaign teams are in the state, security, grammar school gym rentals for rallies, diesel for their busses, television, radio, and print ads, the people those all employ...where would they be economically without all that?

    They'd have to sell us a whole lot more of something else we don't need. Ethanol.



  13. Melvin Waldron
    Melvin Waldron avatar
    43 posts
    1/28/2016 11:01 AM
    Peter Bowman, CGCS said: I've got to give Iowa credit. They wrote into law that they have to be the first state to hold primaries (caucus in Iowanian). The amount of money spent there because of that law is staggering, to me. All the hotel rooms, restaurant meals, etc., when campaign teams are in the state, security, grammar school gym rentals for rallies, diesel for their busses, television, radio, and print ads, the people those all employ...where would they be economically without all that?

    They'd have to sell us a whole lot more of something else we don't need. Ethanol.


    I was taking part in yesterday's Grass Roots Ambassador's Meeting, (great job by the two speakers from both sides and Kaelyn by the way, and they did address why Iowa is first now, it mostly started by accident), which was about selecting delegates. Part of me thought this was great for people to be involved in the process of elections, yet still honor for the most part the voting totals. But part of me thought, besides the hotels and businesses who makes money off convention goers at both the state and national level, what do the parties do with the money, especially in states that require fees to be a delegate? Quite interesting really, and wondering how much of it is part of our Constitutional Process? I could see it would be good for those that want to be more involved with politics and learning the process, but what about let's just count the votes?

    Mel

    Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO

  14. Trevor Monreal
    Trevor Monreal avatar
    5 posts
    1/29/2016 11:01 AM
    Joel Rhodes said: Who wins Iowa and does it matter?

    Hillary will win

    [img">https://whisnews21.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/whocares.gif?w=308&h=161[/img">

    However, "what difference at this point does it make?"



  15. Clay Putnam
    Clay Putnam avatar
    33 posts
    1/29/2016 12:01 PM
    Trevor Monreal said:
    Joel Rhodes said: Who wins Iowa and does it matter?

    Hillary will win

    [img">https://whisnews21.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/whocares.gif?w=308&h=161[/img">

    However, "what difference at this point does it make?"


    Good Gawd. Make it stop.



View or change your forums profile here.