Well, everyone speculated that it was anyone's race in Iowa. These results were not a huge surprise considering the typical poor voter turnout in Iowa. Is that really a state? I only hear the name in an election year and around tornado season. Just kidding! From the news reports I saw it looked like nobody had a clue who would win this.
Mike Huckabee rode a wave of support from evangelical Christians to win the opening round among Republicans in the 2008 campaign for the White House.
Sen. Barack Obama, bidding to become the nation's first black president, swept to victory in the Iowa caucuses Thursday night over Hillary Clinton and a high-powered Democratic field.
Obama, 46 and a first-term senator from Illinois, scored his victory on a message of change in Washington. Nearly complete returns showed him gaining 37 percent support from Iowans. Former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina and Clinton, the former first lady, were in a close race for runner-up.
Nice job, I was just about to post this before I saw you did it. Hilary took 3rd, sweet. Whatever side you take in the political field, history just took place here tonight on two fronts. The most voter turnout in history, and a Black man winning a state in the bid to become President. In some small way, I can't help but sniff some sort of change in this country no matter what the final outcome.
Posted by: MPaper | January 03, 2008 at 07:53 PM
No matter what people say, CHANGE IS GOOD! I just don't want my taxes raised. :)
Posted by: The Sheriff | January 03, 2008 at 08:13 PM
The way I see it, Iowans have chosen these candidates to drive the rest of the country crazy.
Either it's a game to them, because they've spent too much time in corn fields and have just gone nuts, or...
They figure that since the current congress is completely worthless, they might as well make the executive branch equally ineffective, thereby making it so that the federal government is incapable of meddling in the lives of the people.
Mike Huckabee is a really nice guy, and he does have a lot of fundamentally conservative values that I really like and agree with. That's fine, but the statements he's made about foreign policy make me seriously question his ability to lead us in a time where we've got so much conflict with the middle east. Being a Baptist minister doesn't necessarily make you a good leader. It just makes you good at preaching how people ought to be.
Obama, on the other hand, is definitely a polar opposite of Huckabee except that he has the same inexperience and ineptitude in terms of foreign policy. The man has made it clear that we shouldn't be in Iraq and we shouldn't have ever gone to Iraq, but by God, we should be in Pakistan pissing off an admittedly bad ally in a region. Yes, folks, let's go from a bad situation to a worse one and let's raise taxes to pay for all the government socialized programs that aren't going to work worth a dime but we'll be required to have anyway.
So like I said, either they are genuinely insane in Iowa, or they're absolutely brilliant.
Posted by: GoodThings2Life | January 04, 2008 at 04:34 AM