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Jan 4, 2008 11:50 PM
Is the Obama victory in Iowa the beginning of a ‘political revolution’ in America? According to this op-ed article from Germany’s Frankfurter Rundschau, the proof will be in the New Hampshire pudding next Tuesday …
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Jan 4, 2008 08:45 PM
We’ve finally reached a point in the nominating process in which we can stop talking about Rudy Giuliani, right? After all, he came in a distant sixth in Iowa — after having led the field as recently as the summer — and Ron Paul nearly tripled his support. For a candidate who was once labeled [...]
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Jan 4, 2008 07:41 PM
I was watching PBS NewsHour while eating a hefty salad with lots of garlic when I heard that the McCain and Huckabee campaigns have teamed-up in New Hampshire to knock Mitt Romney out of the race.
Politics becomes Reality TV.
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Jan 4, 2008 05:12 PM
Barack Obama won the Iowa caucuses by 7.83%. In 2004, John Kerry won the caucuses by a smaller 5.8% margin and went on to win the Democratic nomination....
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Jan 4, 2008 04:53 PM
Gravel2008:
Once again, the Mainstream Media has not gotten the facts straight.
MSNBC pundit Keith Olbermann has incorrectly declared that Sen. Gravel has dropped out of the race following the January third caucus in Iowa. This is not true, and Sen. Gravel is still an active member in this race. We are requesting that MSNBC [...]
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Jan 4, 2008 04:43 PM
In an ode to the fine art of nasty politicking, PBS headed to South Carolina to investigate the history of dirty campaigns in this all-important early primary state and attempted to find out whether or not political smears will influence the result of the 2008 presidential election. The show is part of their NOW series appropriately titled “Dirty Politics 2008” and airs tonight at 8:read more
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Jan 4, 2008 04:14 PM
Despite the evidence, Mitt Romney says Americans don't want a change in parties in the White House. Of course, this bit of insight is coming from a man who just spent $10-20 million to come in second in the Iowa caucuses....
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Jan 4, 2008 03:22 PM
I'm not one big on making releases front-page material here on BH, but I'll try to condense this release from the Edwards Campaign to something we can talk about, with the full release available here:
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Jan 4, 2008 02:23 PM
Rudy Giuliani isn’t worried about an embarrassing fifth place finish in Iowa with a poor finish in New Hampshire looming — he was there on 9/11, damn it!
He flatlined in Iowa and he’s struggling in New Hampshire, but Rudy Giuliani shook off the early-state blues Thursday as only he can.
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Jan 4, 2008 02:10 PM
While Barack Obama was the clear winner and should receive all plaudits for getting out the vote in Iowa the way he did, Edwards’ showing, despite being outspent six to one, is nothing to sneeze at and at least does signal that Edwards’ populist rhetoric isn’t as off-putting as the punditocracy would have you believe. [...]
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Jan 4, 2008 01:37 PM
Chris Dodd and Joe Biden have both decided to leave the presidential race and will be going back to the Senate. I wish them the best of luck. In the extended entry, you can read Dodd's remarks to supporters and you can read the release from Biden's campaign.
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Jan 4, 2008 01:25 PM
I can’t tell you how bad I feel about the turnout for Sen. Chris Dodd. He has been such a champion of our values and his campaign and office have been the absolute best to work with.
It’s a long video…but note that towards the end, Chris Dodd acknowledges we in the netroots [...]
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Jan 4, 2008 12:45 PM
Hillary Clinton, along with boosters Bill and Chelsea Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Wesley Clark thanked all the other Democratic nominees (except Mike Gravel) and put her best face forward to her third place finish.
This is a great night for Democrats. We have seen an unprecedented turn out here in Iowa and that is [...]
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Jan 4, 2008 12:24 PM
Although Mitt Romney denied that last night’s disastrous showing in Iowa would slow down his bid for the White House, it appears that his South Carolina campaign is preparing for the worst. Sources tell me that for the last week, Luke Byars, Sen. Jim DeMint’s state director, has been working full time out of the Romney campaign’s SC headquarters.
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Jan 4, 2008 12:09 PM
Scarlett Johansson stumped for Sen. Obama in Iowa. That couldn't have hurt, that's for sure....
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Jan 4, 2008 10:45 AM
In the wake of what only her most loyal backers and most imaginative spinners can only call a massive defeat, New York Senator Hillary Clinton now faces a dilemma not faced by any Democrat who has come before her.
It’s best summarized by the New York Post’s Washington D.C. bureau chief Charles Hurt:
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Jan 4, 2008 10:45 AM
ABC has drawn a line and three did not make the cut.
ABC News is eliminating Republican presidential candidate Duncan Hunter and Democrats Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel from its prime-time presidential debates Saturday night because they did not meet benchmarks for their support.
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Jan 4, 2008 09:38 AM
Download (24) | Play (12) Download (20) | Play (8) (just under 10 minutes of the speech)
During his speech following his victory in Thursday’s Iowa caucus, Senator Barack Obama sounded confident, inspired and ready to take the momentum into New Hampshire. It was most refreshing to see a strong turn out from younger people in Iowa and [...]
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Jan 4, 2008 09:12 AM
At Politico, the lead, post-Iowa headline concerning the Republican candidates makes this claim: “GOP race in total disarray.” At TMV earlier this morning, Shaun Mullen suggested it’s time for the GOP to panic. I respect the Politico and Shaun immensely, but I’m compelled to challenge both; the former more so than the latter.
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Jan 4, 2008 08:45 AM
Well my mind keeps goin through them changes I think I'm goin outta my mind -- Buddy Miles, "Dem Changes" Well, after her loss in the Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton may be going out of her mind. Barack Obama's victory derailed Clinton's express train back to the White House.read more
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Jan 4, 2008 08:12 AM
There’s no shortage of angles to the results out of Iowa, but let’s briefly go one at a time, taking a look at Spin vs. Reality. Starting with the Dems:Barack Obama — What Obama fans are saying: Iowa is the spark that will propel Obama to the Democratic nomination. What Obama critics are saying: Iowa’s just [...]
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Jan 4, 2008 07:49 AM
While there will be plenty of speculation today about what last night’s result in Iowa portend for the race, the parties, and the fate of the Republic, one thing is for certain: We won’t have Joe Biden and Chris Dodd to kick around anymore.
Delaware Sen Joe Biden and Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd abandoned their bids for the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night.
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Jan 4, 2008 07:07 AM
There was but a single reference to him in the two lead New York Times stories today and scant mention elsewhere, but George Bush was the invisible hand in the Iowa caucuses.
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Jan 4, 2008 06:11 AM
Is the United States truly ready for a Black first family? Quite a few Africans appear to doubt it. This op-ed article from Nigeria’s This Day asks, ‘Has White America truly purged itself of its notorious resistance to interracial harmony?read more
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Jan 4, 2008 06:04 AM
And so after months of stump speeches, mind-numbing debates and a tsunami of navel gazing by an omnipotent punditocracy, we now have a small measure of how voters actually feel about the 2008 presidential field.
As in a really small measure.
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Jan 4, 2008 05:46 AM
Far and away the best news of the night, in my opinion. Check out the total vote percentages - if Iowa is a slice of America, then America just utterly rejected the Republican party:
Percentage of total vote
24.5% Obama
20.5% Edwards
19.8% Clinton
11.4% Huckabee (R)(h/t Group News Blog)
There really is no reason to vote Republican anymore, is there?
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Jan 4, 2008 05:04 AM
It didn't take Hillary long to re-message the campaign in the wake of her stunning third-place loss to Barack Obama and John Edwards in Iowa. Instead of insisting on change, a theme more amenable to her opponent, Hillary will instead work on the inexperience of her opponents -- and use a tack that Democrats often claim Republicans use against them.read more
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Jan 4, 2008 04:48 AM
Two men heard the message from the voters yesterday, and that message was not Please Continue. Chris Dodd and Joe Biden go back to the Senate after becoming afterthoughts in Iowa, winning no delegates and barely registering on anyone's consciousness: Veteran U.S. Sens.read more
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Jan 4, 2008 04:33 AM
Iowa caucus voters yesterday delivered a message that they wanted to try something new, weren’t about to follow their parties’ establishments’ desires or info machines — and wanted a kind of generational change in politics that meant not just new faces but a new way of talking about politics.
It was not a partial message. It was a resounding one:
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Jan 4, 2008 02:40 AM
I wonder if the win for Sen. Obama in Iowa, especially the turnout among independents, portends anything for the New Hampshire primary?read more
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Jan 4, 2008 01:25 AM
Immigration polled as one of the biggest issues for Republican voters in Iowa, yet they overwhelmingly voted for Mike Huckabee, the Republican candidate with what could be characterized as the most moderate record on immigration. Hmm....
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Jan 4, 2008 12:26 AM
I’m enjoying my first Caucus. That makes me a preschooler, or someone who arrived in the US less than four years ago. You can vote later.
A couple of things strike me about this evening. The first doesn’t surprise me much, but the second is truly tantalizing.
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