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I could have told him that a long time ago. He’s not going to win any caucus or primary. You heard it here first.

He said he hopes to beat the other governors in the race, including Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

Huckabee is still in? Seriously?

A fat chance?

“We have always thought that what we want to be is the number one governor coming out of these two races,” he said. “That if we beat Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Mike Huckabee, that we’re the number one governor left, then that moves us on to the future races.”

Ummmm, yes. Be the #1 governor left and we’ll stick a little blue ribbon to your participation trophy.

Who? Didn’t he have a hit song during the 1960s called “Rhapsody in the Rain”?

I thought it was “Ain’t that a Shame”

“I’ll stay in as long as I think I have a chance to win and if there comes a moment where I think I don’t, I’m going home,” he said.

New Jersey: “Pfft. Stay away as long as you like. We’re used to the idea now.”

but he will forever have the hearts and love of joescar and meeka… it’s curious why they continue to promote him and utterly ignore his standing within his own state or what his ‘governance’ has done to it.

8th place is 7th looser.

“”"“I’ll stay in as long as I think I have a chance to win and if there comes a moment where I think I don’t, I’m going home,” he said""""

Well that’s BS. He has zero chance and he’s still in.

Mary Pat’s been hunting supersize brownie tins…

Not to quibble with the unimportant, but 8th place is actually 7th looser. Having perpetually been some numbered looser, I can say it matters.

Edit - HA! I should have known you’d catch it.

Already fixed that error.

Slightly off-topic, but I’ve been reminded again of what a useless state Iowa is for all the time and money campaigns spend there. Blanketing the airwaves, crisscrossing the state and dropping into diners? Then only about 20% - 20 freaking percent! - of the eligible voters actually participate. Why such a big deal? The Big Mo? If you have a realistic chance (cough- YEB!?*, not), saved your money and effort for South Carolina and the Super Tuesday states, the Big Mo for the Iowa “winner” would hit a wall.

There’s some cognitive dissonance on display here when he talks about New Hampshire but he really means New Jersey. P.S. He has a 1% chance of winning the nomination so he should go home pronto .

““We’ll head back this afternoon to New Hampshire," he said. "We’ll do two events in New Hampshire tonight, and we’ll get on the road to doing very well in New Hampshire, too.

TPM Correction: Willie Geist - Guest

The positive is that it helps their economy.

Somewhere I had heard its only 16% participation in relation to the general Iowan voting public. That’s also coming from a population that’s 91.3% non-Hispanic white according to the US census. Only W. Virginia, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine are more white from what I can tell.

That’s true. On the other hand, the only thing more polluting and climate-changing than methanol is the hot air coming from politicians.