IA caucus - Kerry 38% (winner), Edwards 32%, Dean 18% (97% reporting) (Gephardt drops out)

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[calvin sun]

FYI it's being carried live on Cspan. They said coverage starts at 7 pm ET, with the actual caucus at 7:30 pm ET.

[oceanview]

what do you mean, Edwards is "short", what do you know that you aren't telling us?

[ChadGore]

The Clinton curse lives through Gore.

[MJY1288]

At least Gephardt will save some money on hair coloring now that he will be out of politics :-)

[ctonious]

Don't you love this earnest pony-tailed pinhead progressive yelling out the numbers. Everybody probably knows a shmuck just like him.

[Salvation]

**This could still work to our advantage. If Kerry, Edwards, and Dean all win big in different states, they could conceivably go to the convention without a candidate nailed down.**


No, No, No, No,

Then Hitlery would be the nominee!

[ShandaLear]

MY 15 year old son just came out to check the results and when he saw Edwards doing so well he said, "I'm 2 inches taller and went back into his room." LOL!

[Godebert]

" Let them jump. The best thing that happened in 2003 was the California recall election, when the "unappeasables" arrogantly postured, threatened and sabotaged and Schwarzenegger won 48% to McClintock's 13%. The dirty little secret is that for every one of these flaky, selfish extremists that leave the GOP, three or four of our politically moderate, but personally conservative, neighbors, family and friends will join the Party and vote for Bush. You can't win with these extortionists on board. There's no satisfying them without driving the independent voter away. Better they leave."

Spoken like a true Minnie Soda Moderate. All Conservatives are "extremist" to your blue zone ilk. Just what the Republican party needs....more mushy moderate borderline liberal flakes.

[festus]

The scariest part of the numbers you just posted is that from 1 to 5% of the Dems favor Kucinich, the man who brings a pie chart to a radio address.........

[tet68]

This old bitty is guilting her neighbors into serving on committees. Real activists, those communists.

Once they locked you in, what could you do?
Then you had to suppress your neighbor.
Read about stuff like this during the collective drive and
the war on the middle peasant.

[Darlin']

What a zoo !

[prairiebreeze]

Dean will continue on to NH and probably will do better there. Question is how well Kerry and Edwards will do there. Edwards would be strong in SC of course but would Kerry?

Questions, questions.

Prairie

[BurbankKarl]

I would crack up if this goes on past the states that cancelled their primaries...

Washington, Kansas, etc.

[BulletBobCo]

Hippy Dude is trying to give a math lesson.

[Diogenesis]

Nice analysis -- except you left out the Arkancide wing of the Democratic Party.

[Ciexyz]

WOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!

[Catspaw]

The scariest part of the numbers you just posted is that from 1 to 5% of the Dems favor Kucinich, the man who brings a pie chart to a radio address.........

LOLOL!! If only Dennis would've held that pie chart closer to the mike, I know everyone would've seen it.

[GOPyouth]

Far out, man. He looks like Bob Bitchin from Let's Make a Dope Deal.

[Ramius]

A Kerry/Edwards ticket would make for an interesting race.

Excepting that historically the winner of the Iowa Caucus is almost never the nominee... it would be a horse race.

But all W has to do is run a marginally decent campaign and he'll still win, and maybe win big if he campaigns well. But: He has to campaign. He can't make the mistake his father did.

[mr.sarcastic]

Then Hitlery would be the nominee!

Which would do wonders for the GOP get out the vote efforts! I don't think she'd have a prayer, but that's just me.

[StarFan]

No, it's not good for us; they are eliminating the real nuts.

Instincts (and stomach flip flopping) tells me a Kerry/Edwards ticket is not what we want at all. I was hoping for a Dean win and now am praying that Clark pulls this out. Dean is on now on LKL saying he's determined to win the primary, congratulates Kerry saying he believes Kerry will win Iowa but he believes he will win New Hampshire.