Posted on 01/03/2008 9:51:20 PM PST by xjcsa
908 Huckabee
748 Romney
385 Thompson
283 McCain
274 Paul
61 Giuliani
9 Hunter
These are actual individual votes, although they actually add up to a lot less voters than reported by local media (and it seems low for what I saw, although it's really hard to judge crowd size in the building we were in). This adds up to 2,668 votes, vs. over 5,000 reported by local television. It's also possible that some of the precincts haven't called their results in yet; they all called in separately by precinct even though they were in the same building, and I see that 7% have not yet reported.
Any idea how many of the Huckabee voters were Democrats?
Thanks, good report.
Yes...Florida 2000 all over again, calling the results early. It’s the old trick.
Essentially none. They're die-hard Republicans and evangelical Christians who don't want to hear you talk about Huck's actual positions on anything but abortion and gay marriage. I know a lot of them personally (I'm an evangelical Christian myself), and it's a strange state of mind. I don't understand it at all.
To be fair, we were running *really* late, and Huck's win was larger than our total vote. They may not have even realized that we hadn't voted yet; hard to say, although there was a significant media presence there.
Nice write-up.
Do you have to register in Iowa or is it an open ballot state?
Given that the Dem candidates are pretty much clones, I can’t help but think that a lot of Huckster votes came from Dems voting for the biggest glass jaw Republican candidate they could hope for.
Thanks for answering my post!
You have to register, but you can do so at the caucuses. If you're a registered Donk but you want to vote for Ron Paul, you have to re-register as a Pubbie at the caucus location.
Did the Huckabee voters seem informed on the issues? What seemed to be their reason for supporting him?
What were their impressions of Fred?
These are the folks Fred needs. Just a few of them.
Found it - his name was Hugh Cort, and he would just not shut up.
Thanks for the report, and good work in derailing a couple of the Huckster’s supporters over to the right side (GO FRED!).
I’m a baptist and I can’t understand the admiration of Huckabee outside of the fact he talks about God without shame and about socially conservative issues without apology. Huckabee should provide a lesson for all Republicans and that is social conservatism isn’t something to be ashamed of. Now I will caveat that with the fact that Huckabee talks a socially conservative game but is a light weight when it comes to reality.
They're informed on abortion and gay marriage; they consider everything else kind of secondary until you explain just what a nanny-stater Huckabee is, and they still stay with him, usually. They support him because he's strongly pro-life, and because he's an evangelical like them. It really is identity politics like Rush says; they identify with him and don't care that he's basically a pro-life John Edwards.
What were their impressions of Fred?
Fred is the second choice for most of them; if the caucuses were still a few weeks away Huck would probably lose a fair number of votes to Thompson.
These are the folks Fred needs. Just a few of them.
Yep. I should also note that the Huckabee people tend to despise Romney; they *really* don't like him at all. But they like Thompson.
Thanks for the report. You said Paul spoke there and received a mixed reaction - could you elaborate?
No problem.
It IS a strange state of mind- and worrisome to see.
Thanks for the after action report.
Very positive reaction on Constitutionalism, stony silence on foreign policy and goldbugism (except from his core supporters).
...maybe “goldbuggery” is a better word...
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