I need your help. For the last two weeks I have heard nothing but news about the Iowa Caucuses. Huckabee and Obama won, but what is a caucus? How does it work? Why does Kentucky have a caucus that doesn't matter? Why doesn't it matter? Who came up with the name "Caucus?" Why is it so fun to say "Caucuses?" Why isn't the plural called "Caucuii?" Iowa, seriously?
These are the questions I have. I need your help in getting them answered. Now don't go and look it up and then just answer from that....that's boring. I want answers off the top of your head. Colby Adams, I don't know if you even read this blog but I bet you could answer. Anyone else that knows please chime in. Points will be given for creativity.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that's clueless. Though I have come to expect that if I don't know, then you don't know. HA!
so, nate, seeing how we have similar memories of lexington years ago (treasury drug, york steakhouse, etc), here's one for you...
Do you remember "Happy Hour"? It was a locally-produced children's show starring Happy the Clown and a puppet frog named "Froggy." It came on Channel 62 (before it became Channel 36). The show showed Tom & Jerry cartoons, Flash Gordon, etc.
(sorry to be so far off the subject of the post... i've been wondering about this for like a month)
Dave, Happy the Clown was my favorite. My mom sent in my name for the birthday club one time. He wished me happy birthday on the air. It is still one of my all time favorite memories. I had a Kermit the Frog puppet that I would pretend was Froggy. That's when Tv was real.
Misty, you would be amazed by all the things that I don't know.
that's awesome. it's rare that i find someone who remembers happy hour. i loved that show... watched it every afternoon. then, one day, happy was gone, replaced by "Happy 2". it was never the same. (useless piece of trivia: Happy 2 was somehow related to anthony/tony willis [aka "biggie"]... an uncle or something, as i recall).
I started to mention the Tony Wills connection but I wasn't sure. They even tried to revive channel 62 for a short while a few years back. Somewhere I have a 45 record with the theme song to happy hour on it.
dorks...
misty, i am still amazed at what he doesn't know:)
i have inside sources that confirm that Kentucky's caucus will matter IF AND ONLY IF we can bring casino's into our state.
it has been brought to my attention that the university of kentucky wildcats program is struggling because of kentucky's lack of casinos.
kripy kreme in lexington ran out of chocolate iced donuts one evening last month. this has been confirmed to be the result of the absence of casinos in kentucky.
i have confirmation that the show happy hour was cancelled due to kentucky's lack of casinos.
sources have confirmed that channel 62 was canned because of kentucky's lack of casinos.
wow, has my wife's crush on Dan Mongiardo waned in favor of the Guvnah.
what, i'm not the governor anymore?!
credible sources have acknowledged that the ky wildcats football team would have received a better bowl bid if Kentucky had casinos
c'mon folks, the lottery shot us straight up the charts from #49 all the way to #46 in education. just think, if we get the casinos we so desperately NEED we could possibly skyrocket to #44!!!!!
now ernie, quit yer whining and i done told you to come get these books off them shelves in the liberry. i ain't got no need for them! i gotta have somewhere to put my poker champeenship trofy and my perty nic nacs i bought at the injun reservation last month.
has anyone seen that little guy with the eyebrow and eastern ky "accent"? i seem to have misplaced him.
i am sorry to report that we are going to have to limit Kentucky's access to sunlight due to our lack of casinos.
i'm not coming back to sing there ever again unless you get casinos.
BYAHHHHHHHHH!
Wow, someone's havin' fun.
So seriously, what's the difference between a Primary and a Caucus?
And don't Iowans get to start voting at midnight or something?
Dawg, you've got all day in the dead of winter, there ain't no corn to harvest in early January. Don't you just wanta get some shuteye and just vote in the mornin'???
Hmmm...
Nathan,
Long overdue, but I just now saw the post. Basically a caucus is a system in which a group of people gather in their community and cast their vote for their candidate. After the first round of voting candidates who do not receive 15 percent of the vote are considered "non-viable" and their supporters are then free to support other candidates. At that point supporters of other candidates proceed to lure the uncommitted supporters. After this round a final count is taken and the candidate with the most supporters is the "winner" of that caucus. Delegates are awarded based on the proportion of supporters.
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