Posted on 11/27/2007 8:40:17 AM PST by John Cena
ABC News' Ed O'Keefe Reports: Newt Gingrich predicts Barack Obama will win the hotly contested vote in Iowa, saying the junior Senator from Illinois will motivate more energized supported than the former First Lady.
"My guess is Senator Obama's going to win Iowa and that he's going to win it by a surprising margin," the former Speaker of the House told ABC News' Diane Sawyer on "Good Morning America".
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Obama, D-Ill., and Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., will soon roll out the "charisma brigade", dispatching mega-surrogates Bill Clinton, campaigning for his wife, and Oprah Winfrey, making a first and rare foray into the political arena on behalf of Obama, whom the talk superstar has endorsed.
"I think Oprah Winfrey is a remarkable figure," Gingrich told Sawyer, "I think she brings a, not just a celebrity status, but there are millions of people who trust her judgment."
Pressed on whether the Oprah-factor would "tip" the nomination toward Obama, Gingrich replied, "I think it's a significant asset to (Obama) and he's not married to her."
"I think there's a double-edged sword when President Clinton shows up because he also reminds you, do you really want two presidents in the White House? And do you really want Mrs. Clinton to have to rely on President Clinton to have to win?"
In the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, shows a tight race in the Hawkeye State with Obama at 30 percent over Clinton at 26 percent, and both former Senator John Edwards, D-N.C., and Governor Bill Richardson, D-N.M., trailing with 22 and 11 percent respectively.
Perhaps more significantly, ABC News' Polling Director Gary Langer points out that the poll also showed "most Democratic likely voters in Iowa, 55 percent, say they're more interested in a "new direction and new ideas" than in strength and experience...a help to Obama, who holds a substantial lead among "new direction" voters."
"I have a hunch," Gingrich told Sawyer on "GMA", "that the emotional energy that Senator Obama's building is more powerful than the emotional energy Senator Clinton's building."
The former House Speaker said he has "great respect" for Senator Clinton and the Clinton "machine" but went on to add, "It just seems to me right now, in Iowa at least, Senator Obama's building a really heavy steam."
It is a completely useless and counterproductive exercise, much like polls.
Of course, there are "good girls" and "bad girls".
Underestimated Clintoon problem?
Oprah will suck the chick vote away from the lesbo!
Liberals are like slinkies - completely useless but fun to watch fall down the stairs.
My absolute worst nightmare! Obama v. Giuliani in ‘08 and Giuliani wins the Electoral college and not the popular vote; there will be weeks of rioting in the streets and a Constitutional crises.
Word to the wise; if Obama wins the Democrat nomination, you don’t want to own any stock at all whatsoever, go long bonds and avoid the equity markets like the plague.
They wish to destroy this superpower....
There go the 20% of Repubican women who are going to vote for Hillary because she's a woman! Now they'll all vote for Obama because Oprah said so.
Hey, the dumb electorate are the problem. If you want an Obama or Edwards or Hildabeast or a Rudy then vote them in. I won't. If the dumb electorate want this so be. This corrupt "Two-Party Cartel" could run a ham sandwich from one faction a tuna sandwich from the other & get 2 million votes. That's how stupid the seeple are.
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