this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2024
1498 points (95.6% liked)

People Twitter

5168 readers
1737 users here now

People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.

RULES:

  1. Mark NSFW content.
  2. No doxxing people.
  3. Must be a tweet or similar
  4. No bullying or international politcs
  5. Be excellent to each other.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] splinty@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Something like 14% of Iowan voters actually turned out. So 51% of that. It's still not ideal of course 🤷

[–] IMongoose@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I don't think the Iowa caucuses are like normal voting. It's more like an event:

https://youtu.be/wP3d5sG-QM8

I don't think a single person under 40 was in that room, so these numbers and results track.