We had mock caucuses tonight while the returns came in and Obama won by about the same amount.  In the middle of the pandemonium of people moving around to their second choices the chair of the City Democratic party, hoarse from shouting, looked down and said "This is why we went to a primary system."  Lol!

now if edwards can keep his lead over clintoon, I will still go to bed a happy man.

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

Want experience? Obama has more years in public service than Hillary or Edwards.

He's green. Other presidents have been even more green, and gone on to serve the nation well.

If you haven't been to Iowa during the caucus phase, I really urge you to get involved the next cycle. I got to see it, a bit, in 2004.

I was working for Howard Dean out of the Vermont headquarters, but we had some issues with the voter database, and I was in direct contact with the vendor, so they sent me to Iowa to be sort of a middle man.

I was really impressed with the people in Iowa. They take the race VERY seriously. They really make the effort NOT to choose a candidate without hearing everyone out. They don't make quick judgments, and they don't get their information from radio, TV, or a blog.

They meet the candidates in person. They're everywhere, so it's hard NOT to trip over a candidate if you're driving around (that was also true in NH, where I spent a few days).

So I would listen seriously to what the people of Iowa are saying. They saw something they liked. Someone worth going out in record numbers to caucus for. Someone who, up close and in person, did not strike them as phony, or just another politician.

Iowa has for years had the highest literacy rate in the nation. The people there should not be thought of as anything other than highly educated voters.

Have they always been right? They haven't always picked the winner, if that's what you mean. But they've had pretty great judgment over the years, and I say that as someone whose favorite candidate lost in Iowa in 2004.

You may not agree with them, but dang, it's wonderful to have one place on this planet where you know votes were counted as cast, and cast with, as opposed to in the absence of, a great amount of information.

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

Shaking my head...

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