Precincts reporting: 1230 of 1781
Republicans
Apparently because of the rules the republican caucus follows, results won't be available until later tonight.
I do, however, have the following from an unconfirmed source:
1) Huckabee 35%
2) Romney 24%
3) Thompson 14%
4) McCain 13%
5) Paul 10%
6) Giuliani 4%
with 40% of precincts "completed"
I hope to christ it isn't true. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 01-03-2008 at 09:38 PM.
This is bad news.
Kinanik fucked around with this message on 01-03-2008 at 09:53 PM.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#IA
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Mr. Parcelan who doth quote:
How did Huckabee get so up there?
it's fucking iowa
Or maybe the Catholics do now,
If huckabee really looks this strong I'm going to have to switch my vote from the throwaway Ron Paul vote I was planning on to someone more viable and less theocratic than Huckabee.
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From the book of Maradon!, chapter 3, verse 16:
The least you guys can do for me next month is go out and vote for obama on super tuesday. Do that much for me. You owe me that much.If huckabee really looks this strong I'm going to have to switch my vote from the throwaway Ron Paul vote I was planning on to someone more viable and less theocratic than Huckabee.
I thought you don't like Obama?
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x--Noxhil2O-('-'Q) :
I thought you don't like Obama?
I don't but I like Hillary a whole, whole lot less
I think because a lot of the news media, until the last few weeks, was treating Huckabee as a lower tier canidate, he was not being asked the though questions. Recently, and hopefully even more now, they will start directing more of them towards him, as every time I've seen him try to answer a tough foreign policy question, he seems to start making an ass of himself. More people watching him more closely might make more people realize this.
I even agree with you on Clinton. I actually liked many of Bill Clinton's policies, but something about Hillary just rubs me the wrong way.
But, he has far too many negatives outweighing this one little fact for me to ever vote for him.
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Check out the big brain on Kegwen!
Man, if it's Huckabee versus Obama then Obama clearly gets my vote. Fuck you, Huckabee.
Obama should get your vote anyway
Should I stay my victory nutslap?
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There was much rejoicing when Maradon! said this:
The least you guys can do for me next month is go out and vote for obama on super tuesday. Do that much for me. You owe me that much.If huckabee really looks this strong I'm going to have to switch my vote from the throwaway Ron Paul vote I was planning on to someone more viable and less theocratic than Huckabee.
Replace Ron Paul with Mike Gravel and that's what I was going to do, but the thought of a Hillary vs Huckabee campaign is scaring me into voting for the lesser of evils. I hope the rest of CA gets this instead of the rampant HILLARY! FUCKYA! that seems to be going on.
Not only do I just outright prefer Obama as a candidate, but he's way more electable than Hillary can ever be. I'd rather have a non-theocratic-leaning-towards-socialst than outright batshit crazy religious nutjob. We can repair four years of Democrats easier than four years of THE RULE OF JESUS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR.
They should rename caucuses "cock-asses," too.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
60% of all the republican voters are not evangelical christians, so most people are predicting that Huckabee's success will not extend past Iowa.
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Vernaltemptress had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
Why vote for Obama?
Because the alternative is a hyper-Christian cunt and voting for a losing candidate is illogical.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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When Zair says stuff like this, it proves there isn't a God:
I would like to see Huckabee vs. Obama almost as much as I would like to see Guiliani vs. Obama.
If Huckabee wins it just gives fucking wacko evangelicals more leeway to say that the GOP is "God's Own Party" dumb fucking shit like that.
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We were all impressed when Naimah wrote:
If Huckabee wins then I'm voting Democrat. Even though both Obama and Clinton scare the crap out of me.
Obama? Really? My greatest criticism of him is that he looks and sounds just too soft. What I love about him is that he's devoted to ending division in the country and supporting the end of the whole "fuck you, republican/democrat" shit that's been plaguing us since Bush got in. I just don't know how well he'd respond to a terrorist threat.
Clinton, however, is the most horrifying person on the planet.
Huckabee is what your average street liberal incorrectly believes George W. Bush is; his record is that of a true "neocon" with generally socialist, big-government economic policies and very conservative, invasive social policies. Basically a reverse-giuliani. If it weren't for the fact that as a republican nominee he would be beholden to a constituency that would expect fiscal responsibility and non-invasive government, I would be starting to doubt whether or not he'd be better than Obama.
However, as previously mentioned, Iowa has a demographic that is fairly skewed in favor of the sort of blind fanatics that vote for Huckabee. Edwards as well got a bit of a distortion from Iowa's general backwoods makeup, a lot of the blue collar crowd tends to gobble up Edwards' trotskyesque "two americas" bullshit like a ham sandwich. Hillary, however, has no such regional bias to explain her failure, which I hope and pray to Moe, the atheist god that I just invented, will continue unabated.
I'd really like Obama to win the nomination for the simple reason that "inept but well meaning" is vastly preferable to "ambitious and boundlessly corrupt". He'd still be a disaster for the country, all the solutions he proposes to our current problems are precisely the wrong thing to do unless your goal is to make the problems as bad as they can possibly be, but at least that initial "getting used to it" phase would be a nice temporary reprieve and with any luck he'll turn out to be as ineffectual on economic issues as our current president only this time immune to criticism because he's black. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 01-04-2008 at 06:16 PM.
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Vernaltemptress had this to say about Knight Rider:
Why vote for Obama?
As I see him over any other Democratic candidate: He wants to find a good resolution for the war (whether he'll find it or not is better than Hillary having no reason to end it), he's all about ending divisiveness (Clinton would love it to continue), doesn't seem too about social engineering (our good friend H.C. would love to see a police state).
Basically, Obama is a Democrat. Clinton is an old-school fascist.
The last person to win the Iowa caucus and get into the White House was Jimmy Carter back in 1976.
Iowa is 1% of nations population, 95% white and hogs outnumber people 5 to 1.
Don't chisel the November ballot in stone quite yet.
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x--CallalronO-('-'Q) :
The last person to win the Iowa caucus and get into the White House was Jimmy Carter back in 1976.
If you squint, Obama sorta looks like Jimmy Carter with a tan.
But then, so does Hillary.
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Mr. Parcelan had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
Clinton is an old-school fascist.
Heh.
