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Home Front: Politix
O'Bama grabs Iowa lead from Edwards
2008-01-04
Democrat Barack Obama surged to a four-point lead over John Edwards in Iowa, with Hillary Clinton fading to third just hours before the first presidential nominating contest, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Thursday.

Obama and Edwards gained ground overnight in the tracking poll, and Clinton fell four points to third place -- a finish that, if it held, would deal a dramatic setback to the one-time Democratic front-runner.

Obama was at 31 percent among likely Democratic caucus-goers, Edwards at 27 percent and Clinton 24 percent. No other Democrat was in double digits.
Posted by:Fred

#9  Let me guess, Clinton not "Black" enough? (Either one)
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-01-04 11:33  

#8  Charles

Sen. Obama is currently an empty shirt with a nice voice a nice personality, inspiring buzzwords and the advantage of not being Hillary.

Let's wait for substance (the things he has now are partial plans, e.g. a health care plan that is almost certainly a disaster but we don't know all the details).

Maybe he won't be able to BS forever.

Posted by: mhw   2008-01-04 09:49  

#7  Charles, I'm not surprised that many republicans bought into the message of Obama. For those not really paying attention, he talks a good game and he's nice looking and seems like a decent guy.

That said, I suspect that many of those Republicans switching their votes to Obama were really just voting against Hillary.
Posted by: Whomong Guelph4611   2008-01-04 09:43  

#6  I was watching a cable show and the people like Bob Woodward, Judy Ruff, Russert, Matthews, etc clearly seemed stunned and somber.

Heh, heh. It must have been a moment for them since they have all deluded themselves that they they are "on the team". So it must have felt like they were rejected by the American people last night, which when you think about it, they were.

haha. No doubt they expected their beloved Clinton Team to pull one out of the hat and bring back the Watergate Party Club.
Posted by: Whomong Guelph4611   2008-01-04 09:39  

#5  Orange Bowl buries the Iowa Caucus.

Turnout in the Iowa straw poll might have been as high as 325,000 total voters participating, thats 14% of potential electorate. If we use this higher number it would mark this campaign as the most expensive on a cost per vote basis.

Fact; 2.2 million Iowans stayed home; to see the Kansas Jayhawks defeat the mighty VA TECH Hokies.

Posted by: Spiny Gl 2511   2008-01-04 09:05  

#4  Simple solutions for simple minds...
Posted by: tu3031   2008-01-04 09:01  

#3  Hail O'Bama and a quick exit from Iraq!
Posted by: Solomon    2008-01-04 06:30  

#2  This may be off-topic, but I need some help with fact-checking. My good friend, who is conservativem recently bought into the "Change" message of Obama and switched party affiliation. Believe it or not alot of Repubs changed voter registration to vote for him and many places had to get extra forms because they ran out.

I need some help finding quotes and fact-checks about Obama. I don't buy it for a minute and need to be ready for when we get into discussion about it, I'm researching as we speak but any help would be appreciated.
Posted by: Charles   2008-01-04 04:48  

#1  38% -> %30 -> %29 ->%2
this in a state where the democratic party is %94 white.

Women under 35 voted in mass for Obama - thank Oprah

Nationally, most black leaders were supporting Hillary. EXPECT a recalculation among both the black voters and leaders.

Obama pledged to move the US off oil for good.
Pledged to exit Iraq.

Both Obama and Huckabee slamed Out-Sourcing, Banks, Big Business, Big Oil - and Oil dependence.

It wasn't explicted stated but, considering the flavor of both Obama and Huckabee's speeches, I think the "free trade" mantra went out the window to be replace by fair trade.

Obama pledged to reframe 9/11 and the war on terror into something but it wasn't clear what. (he mumbled and hedged a bit there)

Obama went on a mumble about global warming but it didn't smooth out to a statement you could stick him too.

Posted by: 3dc   2008-01-04 00:15  

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