Iowa Caucus Tonight

[sageofages]

Originally Posted by jwright25

Thanks for the lesson! Without giving away your actual vote if you don't wish, can you share what some of the coaxing and persuasive speeches were like? What kind of things do supporters say to others to convince them to come to their corner? Did any fights break out? (ha!)

Mr Sageofages and Sageofages son #1 and son #1's best friend all caucused for Obama. We had many many friends who caucused for Obama. I did not.

After the non-viable groups were announced, the Richardson group leaders went straight to Dodd's guys with a smile and said "join us please"...they did. The Kucinich guys were seated right behind the Richardson group so they didn't even have to get up and move, they just said "count us". The Biden Group was swarmed on by the big 3 right away, but they really didn't budge. After some "speechifying" by Big 3 supporters, a Richardson supporter got up and said "get to know us, help us be viable to give this worthy man a chance to be seen further on the stage". I think at that point about 90% of the Biden folks got up and joined the Richardson group.

Of course there were Obama, Edwards and Clinton guys over there talking trying to get Richardson people to move as well. After it became apparent that many of the Richardson folks were considering going Edwards or Clinton if they weren't viable, Obama group offered up the few were needed to be viable to keep the Richardson group intact.