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.

[kcvl]

Kerry is going to get the SPECIAL INTEREST out of politics...


JOHN KERRY (D)
Top Contributors

Cycle: 2004 All Cycles*

Skadden, Arps et al
$97,650

Citigroup Inc
$70,200

Piper Rudnick
$68,250

Mintz, Levin et al
$63,300

Goldman Sachs
$62,500

Robins, Kaplan et al
$62,250

Hill, Holliday et al
$50,750

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
$50,250

Harvard University
$47,750

Morgan Stanley
$39,500

Clifford Law Offices
$36,000

Bain Capital
$35,500

International Profit Assoc
$34,250

Holland & Knight
$32,950

Akin, Gump et al
$32,550

Fleetboston Financial
$32,000

UBS Americas
$31,550

Hale & Dorr
$30,200

Sullivan & Cromwell
$30,050

Thornton, Early & Naumes
$29,000


JOHN KERRY (D)
Top Industries
Cycle: 2004 All Cycles*

1
Lawyers/Law Firms
$3,079,449

2
Securities & Investment
$1,031,275

3
Retired
$753,870

4
Real Estate
$702,535

5
Business Services
$437,900

6
TV/Movies/Music
$418,075

7
Misc Business
$348,906

8
Misc Finance
$340,275

9
Health Professionals
$333,076

10
Education
$325,915

11
Computers/Internet
$250,750

12
Lobbyists
$227,950

13
Commercial Banks
$212,375

14
General Contractors
$162,220

15
Printing & Publishing
$152,625

16
Civil Servants/Public Officials
$151,840

17
Insurance
$130,750

18
Accountants
$109,825

19
Misc Manufacturing & Distributing
$108,950

20
Retail Sales
$95,035


JOHN KERRY (D)
Contributions by Sector
Cycle: 2004 All Cycles*


Agribusiness $54,770
Communic/Electronics $885,400
Construction $308,070
Defense $27,950
Energy/Nat Resource $71,150
Finance/Insur/RealEst $2,572,285
Health $534,251
Lawyers & Lobbyists $3,307,399
Transportation $88,925
Misc Business $1,293,286
Labor $8,500
Ideology/Single-Issue $90,577
Other $1,418,443

[Michael Barnes]

Besides wrinkles, I would say that's a nice shade of pink lipstick as well..

[Morgan's Raider]

You can't be serious! Kerry is a Vietnam vet? I don't remember seeing him in the documentaries on History Channel.

I believe he was in the one about protesters throwing other people's medals over the White House wall.

[mylife]

Greta's show has turned into the View: I guess that not all that surprising

[Simmy2.5]

Talk about dull. Tried watching his victory speech, had to change channels right away in order to stay awake.

[Johnny_Cipher]

Hehehe. I somehow get the feeling that the high bidder is not taking the auction entirely seriously :)

[GulliverSwift]

Ron Reagan just said, "Well at least you have to give him credit for memorizing the names of the United States."

Matthews: It sounded like he was saying those were the states he was going to conquer.

[Fledermaus]

Call McCain...they need to add "selling crap on E-bay" to the next campaign finance reform bill (that I would then say Bush would sign but then I'd get yelled at by everyone! he he he).

[rocky88]

Yea, Du'ers are giving up on Dean and throwing in the towel on the election already. They're worse than the French.

Sample DU post:

"Look, I am a Dean supporter...


I contributed to his campaign. As a poor college student it was a big sacrifice to send him some dough. But that speech was not the way to win over independents and new voters. He scared me. He truly did. If a supporter (although not absolute #1) could be taken aback by such a performance, think of a person just seeing him for the first time."

[texasbluebell]

Nope, she's of Portuguese descent, and grew up in Africa where her father was a dr.

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[Carolinamom]

eye liner on lower lid too.........Michael Jackson influence.

[Mo1]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm ... Nice amounts Kerry's rec'd from special interests huh?

[Peach]

And that's funny because I really like Rush but got a little upset with Common Tator over something...

[kcvl]

JOHN KERRY (D)
Top Contributors
Cycle: 2004 All Cycles*
Mintz, Levin et al
$223,996

AOL Time Warner
$140,210

Skadden, Arps et al
$122,400

Harvard University
$114,400

Hill, Holliday et al
$111,300

Citigroup Inc
$109,806

Goldman Sachs
$108,000

Robins, Kaplan et al
$105,950

Hale & Dorr
$104,850

FleetBoston Financial
$83,250

Piper Rudnick
$80,250

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
$77,800

MacAndrews & Forbes
$77,000

Foley, Hoag & Eliot
$73,350

Verizon Communications
$69,918

Raytheon Co
$65,900

Morgan Stanley
$63,700

Goulston & Storrs
$62,200

Akin, Gump et al
$61,700

Fidelity Investments
$60,975


JOHN KERRY (D)
Top Industries
Cycle: 2004 All Cycles*

1
Lawyers/Law Firms
$5,952,673

2
Securities & Investment
$2,258,620

3
Real Estate
$1,815,857

4
Retired
$1,356,868

5
TV/Movies/Music
$1,284,309

6
Business Services
$1,066,866

7
Education
$728,371

8
Misc Finance
$694,350

9
Health Professionals
$642,173

10
Lobbyists
$638,358

11
Computers/Internet
$629,817

12
Insurance
$557,499

13
Commercial Banks
$554,130

14
Misc Business
$509,970

15
Misc Manufacturing & Distributing
$412,651

16
Printing & Publishing
$398,233

17
Accountants
$359,974

18
General Contractors
$356,089

19
Civil Servants/Public Officials
$311,299

20
Hospitals/Nursing Homes
$279,680

[BCrago66]

Nightline now doing the election.

[Simmy2.5]

But, but, but...Kerry is for the little people...

[Mo1]

Ron, jr. is on Hardball ... is he suppose to be funny??

[Fledermaus]

Geez, not the old "poor college student" cliche.

Most of the people I knew in college were rolling in daddy's money and I worked and had plenty of cash to buy beer and pot! lol

[Pubbie]

I was wrong, however, I will still be as bombastic, and overconfident as always!

[mylife]

Ted Kroppel?