sheliesshattered:

theshameimarureport:

usatoday:

This is what the Iowa Democratic race looks like Tuesday morning. Hillary Clinton’s campaign is claiming victory, while Bernie Sanders’ says it’s still too close to call. 

All! This is the reason why we all need to TURN THE FUCK UP. TURN. UP. Register! 

Look at the Entrance Polls stating who is coming in (Squeezed together for visibility)

VOTERS 17-29 (18% of voters) = BERNIE SANDERS BY 84% v. CLINTON’S 14% 

VOTERS 30-44 (19% of voters) = BERNIE SANDERS BY 58% v. CLINTON’S 37%

37% of voters ARE UNDER 45.

64% of voters ARE OVER 45.

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THIS PROVES RIGHT HERE, YOUR VOTE MATTERS.

Register the FUCK to vote. And TURN UP. Just a few more waking up and getting over to the caucuses would have turned a TIE into a WIN. Just think on how the primaries would go! Register! Party affiliate! And don’t stop at voting just for President, but get yourselves heard by picking reps so Congress AND STATE REPS AND GOVERNORS realizes that they can’t “just listen to the old generation” anymore.

Change that voter percentage so all of you all’s voices can be heard. Up that percentage! Do whatever it takes to show up! We have truly the ability to change things if we JUST SHOW UP.

It’s also important to know that this neck-and-neck decision in favor of Clinton was based on no less than six coin tosses, all of which she won.  In Iowa Democratic Caucus rules, if a precinct is tied between two candidates and has an odd-number of equivalents to award, they flip a coin to decide who gets the odd one out.  Had there been just one more Bernie supporter at those locations, it wouldn’t have gone to a coin toss, and Bernie would have gotten the equivalent (which get added up and rounded off to eventually decide who gets the State party’s delegates at the National Convention) instead of Hillary getting them.

But only about 5% of Millennials in Iowa showed up to caucus.  Maybe that percentage will be higher in traditional primary states (caucuses are (intentionally) skewed towards those with 9-5 jobs), but if we can’t get this man elected, we’ll have no one but our own generation to blame for it.  If you aren’t registered to vote, if you don’t know when your state’s primary is, let this be your wakeup call to find out.

(via sheliesshattered)