Earlier tonight, CNN’s Bill Schneider made the asinine claim that Democrat voters in Iowa were mostly “moderate and that the Republican voters in Iowa were “very conservative.”   What was his source?  Entrance polls in which Democrats described themselves as moderate and Republicans admitted they were conservative.  Somehow it never even occurred to Schneider that liberals [...]

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Mike Huckabee Wins Iowa

by Mike on January 3, 2008

in Election 2008, Politics

Mike Huckabee has won the Iowa caucuses, easily defeating second place finisher Mitt Romney. Right now, at 9:30pm eastern time, third place is still up in the air. At this point, the fight for third is among Fred Thompson, John McCain, and the sometimes entertaining but always nutty Ron Paul.
As a Thompson supporter, I [...]

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The major news outlets are calling the Republican caucus in Iowa for Huckabee, while it seems that O’Bama is likely to win on the Democrat side.
The Dems are bunched much closer together with O’Bama followed closely by Edwards, with She Who Must Not Be Named bringing up the rear of the top three.
Huckabee is 8 [...]

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Iowa Iowa Iowa

by Ryan on January 3, 2008

in Election 2008, Politics

It’s the only thing happening in the American political universe at the moment!  Michelle Malkin has a great summary of what’s going on today and what the projections of various folks in the blogosphere are.  Also, Drudge has been on top of things all as usual.  As I told my students today:  January 3rd is the day [...]

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Sal’s Endorsement: Mitt Romney

by Sal on January 3, 2008

in Politics

I have been struggling with who to support in race for the Republican Nomination for some months now.  It is only in sitting down to write this post that I actually made up my mind (in fact, the original headline I had written for this post was “Sal:  Undecided”).  However, as I was writing and [...]

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