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Jan 3, 2008 11:35 PM
The results are in from the Iowa caucuses.
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Jan 3, 2008 11:14 PM
After Iowa, a few fearless predictions…
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Jan 3, 2008 10:47 PM
Here, I indicated on December 23, that I thought Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama would win the Iowa caucuses in their respective parties tonight. I also spoke of the parallel universes that are the Democratic and Republican presidential nomination races this year.
But are there commonalities between the two parties’ races?
I think so and it’s their common themes.
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Jan 3, 2008 10:44 PM
Drudge has the following results from the Iowa Caucuses:
RESULTS:
Clinton 0; Obama 0; Edwards 0
Huckabee 0; Romney 0; McCain 0; Paul 0; Thompson 0; Giuliani 0
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Jan 3, 2008 10:39 PM
FoxNews has just reported that Democrat Sen. Chris Dodd has ended his presidential run following a sixth place Iowa finish that earned him 0 percent of the vote. I would expect Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel, who also received a bagel on their scorecard to drop out and clean up the Democratic field a bit — but they’re both insane, so that probably won’t happen.
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Jan 3, 2008 10:37 PM
I’m a disgusted with the Big 2 parties type. Been that way since I cast my first vote in a local election when I was 18 years old. But I’m not politically stupid and I love history. And I realize political history when I see it. Barack Obama wins the Democratic Iowa Caucus and the Black Democratic Establishment (BDE) loses.
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Jan 3, 2008 10:33 PM
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As with Huckabee earlier, all the networks are projecting Barack Obama the winner of the Democratic Iowa caucus. John Edwards and Hillary Clinton are neck and neck fighting for second and third place, but Obama came out on top. Usually, second place doesn’t matter, but in this case, [...]
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Jan 3, 2008 10:33 PM
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Jan 3, 2008 10:33 PM
This started off sounding like the Super Bowl -- the big-money Immovable Object meeting the grassroots Unstoppable Force. Iowans turned it into the usual kind of Super Bowl, a laugher, as Mike Huckabee stunned Mitt Romney with a nine-point win. Huckabee beat Romney by a much wider margin than anyone predicted, even larger than the five-point gap that I posted earlier this evening.read more
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Jan 3, 2008 10:17 PM
Wow, I just got done with my precinct caucus--I was chair and had to tally results. Des Moines 4 went for Sen. Barack Obama, but just barely. He left with two delegates, two for John Edwards, and one for Hillary Clinton.
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Jan 3, 2008 10:14 PM
On the heels of the Iowa caucus, the head of South Carolina’s Republican Party, Katon Dawson, has sent out a harsh statement hitting tonight’s Democratic trifecta.
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Jan 3, 2008 10:14 PM
Hillary Clinton has run into a serious buzz saw on her way to the coronation. Not only did she not win the state, but she lost to the wrong candidate. Barack Obama now threatens to steal away a nomination that the Clintons thought they had in the bank less than three months ago. Clinton would have had a tough time winning Iowa in any case.read more
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Jan 3, 2008 09:52 PM
Again, I doubt this has any meaning whatsoever aside from amusing me. Results as of 8:51 Central
Central College, Pella, Marion County (27 Obama, 12 Edwards, 10 Clinton, 1 Richardson)
Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Linn County (7 Obama, 5 Edwards, 2 Clinton, 1 Richardson)
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Poweshiek County (39 Obama, 21 Edwards, 7 Clinton, 6 Biden)
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Jan 3, 2008 09:26 PM
***Results as of 8:27 PM***
Senator Barack Obama : 35.25%
Senator John Edwards : 31.02%
Senator Hillary Clinton : 30.78%
Governor Bill Richardson : 1.80%
Senator Joe Biden : 1.01%
Uncommitted : 0.11%
Senator Chris Dodd : 0.03%
Precincts Reporting: 1304 of 1781
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Jan 3, 2008 09:23 PM
After a scan of all the news networks, with 25% of precincts reporting, MSNBC, CNN and FOXNews are projecting Mike Huckabee the winner of the Republican Iowa caucus. MSNBC is reporting that just 8% of Huckabee voters say they voted for him because he’s likely to win. Poor Rudy, he didn’t even get an “also [...]
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Jan 3, 2008 09:04 PM
CBS, CNN and NBC have projected that Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee — the GOP candidate who is not a favorite of the Republican establishment, the White House or talk show host Rush Limbaugh — will win the Republican Iowa caucus vote, thus propelling himself into the media spotlight and undercutting former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, the onetime favorite there.
CNN reports:
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Jan 3, 2008 08:51 PM
Drudge has the following results from the Iowa Caucuses:
RESULTS:
Clinton 0; Obama 0; Edwards 0
Huckabee 0; Romney 0; McCain 0; Paul 0; Thompson 0; Giuliani 0
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Jan 3, 2008 08:46 PM
Because the Democratic Party’s Iowa Caucus website breaks down results in absurd amounts of detail (and is updated literally by the minute), I’m going to track the voting around four small liberal arts colleges (I don’t do the big ones because they’re in big cities and it’s impossible to figure out which precincts actually contain the schools).read more
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Jan 3, 2008 07:40 PM
I suppose, in the minds of most political reporters, the words “Clinton” and “triangulation” go together like chocolate and peanut butter.
But Bob Novak’s hit-job on Hillary Clinton today is not just wrong, it doesn’t make any sense at all.
Sen. Hillary Clinton faces tonight’s Iowa caucuses not as the inevitable Democratic presidential nominee but seriously [...]
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Jan 3, 2008 06:38 PM
How timely, that the Sunday before the Iowa caucus, The New York Times would publish an essay about Vance Packard’s “The Hidden Persuaders.”
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Jan 3, 2008 06:30 PM
ARE YOU WATCHING THE IOWA CAUCUS RESULTS? IF SO, THEN JOIN IN THE DISCUSSION!
Check out the window below (after the jump). Enter your comment screen name in the box where it says “name” (at the bottom) and click the graphic immediately to the right to change your name on the chat.
Then, enter text in the box at the bottom and hit enter.
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Jan 3, 2008 06:22 PM
OK, here you go:
Obama, Edwards and Hillary.
Romney, Huckabee and McCain.
I’m not endorsing anyone—just venturing a guess. It really is very close all around on the Democratic side so your guess is as good as mine. And we know the Villagers will be wheeling and dealing all-night-long.
Lady MacCheney said on FOX that if Thompson [...]
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Jan 3, 2008 06:22 PM
UPDATE: It looks like Huckabee is going to win. CNN is calling it for him. Obama, Hillary and Edwards are in a virtual tie at 6:10 PST.
OK, here you go:
Obama, Edwards and Hillary.
Romney, Huckabee and McCain.
I’m not endorsing anyone—just venturing a guess. It really is very close all around on the Democratic side so your [...]
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Jan 3, 2008 06:10 PM
As an interesting experiment, OTB is participating in a cross-blog Iowa Caucus live chat. Comments entered in the window below will appear simultaneously on several other sits, including The Palmetto Scoop, Flopping Aces, and Mike’s America.
I’m not thrilled with the interface, which strikes me as rather garish and spammy, but it is, as they say, what it is.
User tips:
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Jan 3, 2008 05:56 PM
I'll be live-blogging events on this post this evening. Who will win? Who will lose? Who gets to claim momentum?read more
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Jan 3, 2008 05:22 PM
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Jan 3, 2008 05:20 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM7GXJcbBnQ
Since YouTube’s inception nearly three years ago, it has transformed the Internet and the way in which we use multimedia. The elections process is just one particular aspect of that, but the impact has been immeasurable.
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Jan 3, 2008 05:20 PM
I come from a long line of old country storytellers; the Magyarok and the meztisos call us, taltos or cantadoras…
In our ethnic family, there’s an old, old story told by our grandmothers about the old bullfrog who tries to fool others into thinking he is naive instead of cunning and deliberate…
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Jan 3, 2008 04:58 PM
Remember the push poll around Thanksgiving that "asked" voters in New Hampshire if they had awareness of some aspects of the Mormon religion?read more
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Jan 3, 2008 04:41 PM
I suspect Josh Marshall speaks for many (including me) when he notes that now is an “appropriate moment to give thanks for something we can all be thankful for, even across our political divisions and support for contending candidates — that’s right, the collapsing campaign of Rudy Giuliani.”
In Iowa, where admittedly Rudy hasn’t [...]
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Jan 3, 2008 04:34 PM
Joe Carter, in an interesting reflection on his 30 days working for the Huckabee campaign, makes an interesting observation:
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Jan 3, 2008 04:02 PM
Nice to see the DNCC ‘voting with their wallet,‘ so to speak.
You probably remember this revelation about the pre-9/11 wiretapping, and how it landed the CEO of Qwest in jail because he refused to break the law [..]
Today, the Democratic National Convention Committee announced their choice for a telecommunications provider for the [...]
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Jan 3, 2008 04:02 PM
“Would a Rudy Giuliani administration be populated with a cabinet of Republican rivals and a powerful, all-knowing vice president like Dick Cheney?” AP’s Beverley Wang guesses it might after hearing Giuliani’s answers to questions at a New Hampshire town hall meeting.
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Jan 3, 2008 03:39 PM
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney Thursday unabashedly “promised” to keep attacking his Republican rivals and said he would “absolutely” continue running negative advertisements for the remainder of the nominating process in lieu of presenting his own platform, Townhall reported.
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Jan 3, 2008 03:29 PM
Matthew Yglesias, noting that the Iowa Caucuses are largely a media event and that it’s really cold in Iowa in January, proposes a novel solution: “the first-in-the-nation Hawaii Caucus.”
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Jan 3, 2008 03:19 PM
Here’s John Mellencamp singing “Our Country” at the John Edwards event in Des Moines last night.
And here’s Elizabeth Edwards introducing her beaming husband.
UPDATE: John Amato: “Jane has a good piece up about Edwards’ performance at the concert last night.”read more
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Jan 3, 2008 02:51 PM
The South Carolina Senate’s proverbial bad boy and Gov. Mark Sanford’s latest adversary Jake Knotts officially endorsed presidential candidate John McCain, according to a campaign press release that just hit the wire.
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Jan 3, 2008 02:26 PM
Only a few hours separates us from the results of the Iowa caucuses, and at least one campaign has decided to put them to good use. Push-polling calls have gone out to Iowans warning of the troubles voters will face from an Edwards or Obama nomination. Now who could have paid for those calls?read more
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Jan 3, 2008 01:37 PM
Bill Richardson has joined Dennis Kucinich in directing his supporters to vote for Barack Obama in the second round if they do not achieve the 15 percent viability threshold.
Chase Martyn of the Iowa Independent has the story — and a rundown on Richardson’s rather complicated strategery:
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Jan 3, 2008 01:21 PM
Noting that the Republican winner of the Iowa Caucuses almost never goes on the win the nomination, Thomas Schaller argues that the real winners may be those who skipped them.
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Jan 3, 2008 12:40 PM
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Jan 3, 2008 12:35 PM
As Iowans vote in the Iowa caucuses today, final polling shows contradictions and something that could generate a lot of media buzz: in one poll Rep. Ron Paul is breaking into the double digits.
Reuters/C–SPAN/Zogby:
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Jan 3, 2008 11:40 AM
If young voters don't turn out for Obama in the same way they've failed to turn out in the past, I think that for the forseeable future we should probably ignore anyone under 22 with regards to politics. And folks on the Democratic side especially need to quit factoring in young turnout into their models for victory.read more
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Jan 3, 2008 11:32 AM
People have long speculated that Bill Richardsons' floundering presidential bid only served the purpose of making him a viable VP option for Hillary Clinton. Last night, however, he may have damaged those prospects -- while potentially improving them for another potential primary winner.read more
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Jan 3, 2008 11:04 AM
The media is revelling in predictions about the US presidential hopefuls who would make it to the hustings. Among others, I enjoyed reading the Rolling Stone’s forecast: “The smart money — not to mention the latest polls — gives an edge to Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee in tonight’s Iowa caucuses.
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Jan 3, 2008 10:35 AM
Both of South Carolina’s U.S. Senators, Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint, are in Iowa today doing some last-minute campaigning on behalf of the Republican presidential candidates they have endorsed. And they didn’t forget to bring a little of that SC scorched earth election style to the Hawkeye State.
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Jan 3, 2008 10:21 AM
Apparently undeterred by criticism from his own party in the wake of Benazir Bhutto's assassination, Bill Richardson continues his quest to demonstrate that a great resume does not make a great Presidential candidate.read more
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Jan 3, 2008 10:20 AM
BREAKING: THOMPSON AWAKE BEFORE NOON, DENIES RUMORS
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Jan 3, 2008 09:40 AM
Tonight, Iowa voters, or more accurately, a narrow slice of caucus-goers, will separate the presidential contenders from the pretenders. Or not. On the Democratic side, the race is too close to call. Polls show Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards in a three-way tie.read more
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Jan 3, 2008 09:40 AM
An accumulation of small signs suggest a strong third or fourth place finish in Iowa today for Joe Biden to keep his candidacy alive. If not, it’s over.
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Jan 3, 2008 09:23 AM
Today, Captain's Quarters takes its place in the AOL Hot Seat. I decided to ask about the exclusion of Ron Paul from the next Fox News debate -- a strange decision, given the fact that Paul has attended each debate since the beginning, and no votes have yet been taken: embedSWF(9, 0, 0, "widget", "recent")This content requires the most recent version of the Adobe Flash Player.read more
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Jan 3, 2008 09:18 AM
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For a Californian like me who is used to a straightforward party primary, the Iowa caucus process is confusing. And I’m sure I’m not the only one. On Wednesday’s Countdown, Keith Olbermann spoke to David Shuster who tries to make sense of the maneuvering [...]
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Jan 3, 2008 08:58 AM
I wrote in an earlier post that although the people in the world were eager to follow the US presidential election 2008, they find it difficult to wade through the flood of material being churned out in the media and make some sense out of it.
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Jan 3, 2008 08:30 AM
The Politico predicts that Fred will drop out of the race if he doesn't come up with a strong showing in Iowa this evening.read more
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Jan 3, 2008 08:18 AM
Jonathan Martin and Mike Allen of The Politico have a story entitled, “Fred Thompson may drop out, back McCain.”
Several Republican officials close to Fred Thompson’s presidential campaign said they expect the candidate will drop out of the race within days if he finishes poorly in Thursday’s Iowa caucus.
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Jan 3, 2008 08:13 AM
No matter how flawed the process in Iowa, one side benefit of the caucuses is some wheat-chaff separation. Candidates who fail to meet their own (and the political establishment’s) expectations invariably start to feel pressure to withdraw. More often than not, they do, resulting in a trimmed-down field.
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Jan 3, 2008 07:44 AM
The final polling before the Iowa caucuses has come from a joint Reuters/Zogby/C-SPAN survey, and the news for Hillary looks bad. She now comes in third behind the inexperienced duo of Barack Obama and John Edwards.read more
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Jan 3, 2008 03:44 AM
The long awaited Iowa caucuses take place today in an atmosphere of political uncertainty greater than in many past years — amid conflicting reports, see-saw polls and signs that at least one campaign is already working on its spin to explain its candidate’s anticipated defeat.
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Jan 3, 2008 03:44 AM
The long awaited Iowa caucuses take place today in an atmosphere of political uncertainty greater than in many past years — amid conflicting reports, see-saw polls and signs that at least one campaign is already working on its spin to explain its candidate’s anticipated defeat.
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Jan 3, 2008 02:20 AM
Here’s a special original Guest Voice commentary by TMV’s favorite poet, Michael Silverstein, aka Wall Street Poet. Guest Voice posts do not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Moderate Voice or its writers.
Wanted: Viable Third Party Presidential Candidate
By Michael Silverstein
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Jan 3, 2008 01:38 AM
Still unnamed sources though. From the Iowa Independent, which looks like an online only news source(?), can't vouch for reliability:
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Jan 3, 2008 01:38 AM
Still unnamed sources though. From the Iowa Independent, which looks like an online only news source(?), can't vouch for reliability:
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