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.

[Howlin]

Too bad Carter didn't endorse him.

He can still win NH though.

[abner]

Just how many genders are there?

[clintonh8r]

oh good...affirmative action delegates!!!!! Looooooooooozers!!!

[Godebert]

"Nobody gives a whit about you Godebert. Sorry. You're a flake. You didn't vote for Bush in 2000, most of the other howler monkeys around here didn't either. Ergo, your vote won't be missed in 2004. You've got no standing. No leverage."

Bush needs all the Conservative votes he can get. The problem is he isn't much of a Conservative. That's why blue-zone metro-sexual moderates and soccer moms like you are so enamoured with him. I'll give my vote to Bush when he starts acting like a Conservative, but we all know that's not going to happen. More likely he'll lurch even further to the left during the general election. Might not be the blow-out that you Bots are expecting.

[hole_n_one]

[Indy Pendance]

I'm glad he's out, he's too unstable to have nuclear codes.

[prairiebreeze]

You said it! Huge surprise really

Prairie

[EternalVigilance]

Well, here we go. Now that Edwards is viable, watch the long knives come out and readied to be plunged into Clark's back. His campaign is almost entirely staffed with Clintonites...and they won't be working there long.

Good call.

I'm on a friend's wireless in a Pizza Hut in Fredricksburg, Tx...so I won't be able to post anymore til I get to DC.

[smith288]

Dean captain...

"We want some old, young homo and black...because we are 'inclusing'". Umm, lady, this is Iowa...not New York City....you have white folks. male and female. Pick some.

[Petronski]

Deaniac woman at Dubuque 20 now stressing the need to 'represent all the genders.'

Nearly spurted up my delicious ice cold skim milk.

[Pappy Smear]

I just got back from the D caucus-a Freeper sortie into the land of the left. Here is my report.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1061174/posts

[oceanview]

we are sending alot of NYers and other from the liberal northeast to NC, alot of trouble in the Triangle area with tech jobs, and lots of unemployed furniture manufacturing workers.

[Capt. Tom]

Kerry is not good-looking, but he does have those craggy looks that the uneducated think go with being President.

Kind of looks a little like Abraham Lincoln. - Tom

[clintonh8r]

"Any queers here tonight?"

[William McKinley]

You know, dumbass, you should proofread better.

All of this was in the Nov post, not in my reply today:

So if not Dean, who? Gephardt, perhaps. He would have the early win, the name recognition. But he's spent too much defending Iowa, and he has lost a few unions already. Clark? Empty suit. Edwards? Too far back in too many places. Lieberman? He's shown to have about zero support on his own. Kerry could still make it. He has the money. If he can come back on Dean in New Hampshire, he'll get an amazing amount of press for being the new comeback kid. And I think Dean will come back to the pack in New Hampshire. But I still wouldn't rule out Gore making a reappearance into things.

[Peach]

Clinton only got 4%, I think FNC reported earlier this morning, so there is still some hope for Dean. Although I think he's too angry to really make it, darn it.

[BulletBobCo]

Lady wants to make sure all the genders are represented..How many genders are there?

[bulldogs]

To a nit wit dem there are 9

[ctonious]

I'm north of Charlotte. That Panther victory has my Philadelphia son in the dumps! What are the Rock Hillians saying about the native-born son Edwards? He straddles both Carolinas....wants the top job after one term in office. Yep, the South really needs him. NOT

South Carolinians don't claim him either. I've been explaining to the good ol' boys down here that "Hey...I may be originally from DC...I may have lived 6 years in Massachusetts and 10 years in San Francisco - but I'm telling you...you Dixie-Democrats, by all semblances of common-sense - y'all're Republicans! So listen up, lock 'n load, and vote!

[hole_n_one]

ha!