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With like 60 precints left to report in:

Obama: 37.52%
Edwards: 29.87%
Clinton: 29.41%

Record breaking turnout on the Dem side.

On the Republican side, Huckabee had a 10% lead all night and swept it away, followed by Romney.

And somewhere in the back, Thompson. Don't ask me how.
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Yay Obama! Please keep this up!

Huckabee worries me, he could garner enough of the religious vote to actually be a contender in the actual presidential election...
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Huckabee has a lot of liabilities as a candidate, with being a religious extremist and a scandal ridden term as governor. He's probably doing well because he's honestly loony, as opposed to being a phony.
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Cynical Cat wrote:Huckabee has a lot of liabilities as a candidate, with being a religious extremist and a scandal ridden term as governor. He's probably doing well because he's honestly loony, as opposed to being a phony.
I don't know about that. If that were true, Ron Paul would be doing better.

More seriously though, I'm seeing an Obama/Edwards ticket for the Democrats as being more and more likely, which makes me happy. Keeping Hillary as far as possible away from a position of power is a Good Thing.

As I've said a couple times before: I don't have a problem with a woman being POTUS. I do, however, have a huge problem with Hillary being POTUS.
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CNN Latest
Democrats wrote:Iowa 97% reported
Obama 38%
Edwards 30%
Hillary 29%

Republicans wrote:Iowa 85% reporting
Huckabee 34%
Romney 25%
Thompson 13%
Considering how many Republicians and Independents *coughs* have already declared for Obama, if Huckabee gets the nod from the Repubs, it'll just be to be a sarifical lamb.
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frigidmagi wrote:Considering how many Republicians and Independents *coughs* have already declared for Obama, if Huckabee gets the nod from the Repubs, it'll just be to be a sarifical lamb.
True. I'm hoping that about the only thing that can save the Republicans now is a Cthulu / Huckabee ticket.
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rhoenix wrote:
frigidmagi wrote:Considering how many Republicians and Independents *coughs* have already declared for Obama, if Huckabee gets the nod from the Repubs, it'll just be to be a sarifical lamb.
True. I'm hoping that about the only thing that can save the Republicans now is a Cthulu / Huckabee ticket.
I'd vote for that just because it's Cthulhu...

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According to CNN, 100% of democrat stations have reported. Obama's led holds at 38%.

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Charon wrote:Yay Obama! Please keep this up!

Huckabee worries me, he could garner enough of the religious vote to actually be a contender in the actual presidential election...
That would actually be a Very Good thing, since it would mean weakening the Right-wing religious vote, same as the Green guy did to Al Gore in the 2000 elections.
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Obama wins the Iowa primary, and with luck, will take New Hampshire as well.

Huckabee, honestly, I know he's been campaigning and being nutty as a fuck...but gods damn it, he actually won?

I'm honestly, truly baffled by how well he's managed to bullshit this into a Iowa victory...but then again, he's just religious enough that maybe some of those nuts believe he's the answers GWB wasn't...
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