{"id":5976,"date":"2024-01-20T08:27:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T14:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binkley2024.com\/?p=5976"},"modified":"2024-01-22T08:30:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:30:46","slug":"my-favorite-single-vote-in-this-years-caucuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binkley2024.com\/my-favorite-single-vote-in-this-years-caucuses\/","title":{"rendered":"My favorite single vote in this year\u2019s caucuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JEFFERSON, Iowa \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>There were 110,298 total votes recorded across the state Monday night on the Republican side of this year\u2019s Iowa Caucuses.\u00a0 Let me tell you about my favorite single vote among all those.<\/p>\n<p>It happened right in front of me, in the caucus for Jefferson Precinct One, which covers the east half of our west central Iowa town of 4,136.\u00a0 I have no idea who the voter was, because Republicans use a secret ballot.\u00a0 And I didn\u2019t realize just how neat this one vote was until a couple days later.<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscription-widget-wrap\">\n<div class=\"subscription-widget show-subscribe\">\n<div class=\"preamble\">\n<p>It was a vote for GOP presidential candidate Ryan Binkley, the Texas pastor, entrepreneur and deep underdog in the field.\u00a0 It was the only vote he got in our caucus.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll probably think, at first, that it didn\u2019t really matter, since he finished fifth in Jefferson Precinct One \u2013 behind former President Donald Trump with 38, Ambassador-Governor Nikki Haley with 14, Gov. Ron DeSantis with 8, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy with 6.\u00a0 And Binkley didn\u2019t finish any better statewide, as he received less than 1 percent of the total vote.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/chuckoffenburger.substack.com\/p\/my-favorite-single-vote-in-this-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iowa Boy Chuck Offenburger<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEFFERSON, Iowa \u2013\u00a0There were 110,298 total votes recorded across the state Monday night on the Republican side of this year\u2019s Iowa Caucuses.\u00a0 Let me tell you about my favorite single vote among all those. 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