16\u00a0 85%\u00a0 26%\u00a0 omph S\u00a0 bar 30.07\u00a0falls windchill 16\u00a0 Yuletide<\/p>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Iowa Caucus Night<\/p>\n
Oh, the political junkie in me is humming tonight.\u00a0 Obama takes Iowa.\u00a0 Huckabee takes Iowa.\u00a0 Who knew all these folks wanted Iowa in the first place?\u00a0 It would have been fun to be in Iowa tonight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If you’ve never submitted yourself to the pleasures of an Iowa subcaucus evening, you haven’t lived politically.\u00a0 The DFL here in Minnesota adopted the Iowa subcaucus process.\u00a0 In three hotly contested elections I subcaucused in Minneapolis.\u00a0 It’s sort of the political version of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.\u00a0 How many gender neutral, pro-labor, anti-gun McCarthy voters are there?\u00a0 If there are a few left over for a viable caucus, who can we cut a deal with to get\u00a0 more for our issue?\u00a0 It’s wild and if there are a lot of people it’s exciting.\u00a0 Horse trading and dickering at a fast clip.<\/p>\n
It also makes tallying up winners an interesting process as Wolf Blitzer kept saying all evening.\u00a0 In the end CNN counted the total of Iowa state delegates each candidate got, created percentages and called their winners.\u00a0 The more sedate Iowa Republicans took straw votes and went home.\u00a0 Much easier, but not nearly as much fun.<\/p>\n
What does this mean for the race as a whole?\u00a0 Well, Hilary doesn’t look inevitable anymore.\u00a0 Obama is far from having it locked it up, but, as\u00a0a commentator on CNN said (not poor bewildered Wolf Blitzer), if he carries two predominantly white states, Iowa and New Hampshire, black voters will flock to him and quite possibly away from Hilary.\u00a0 They won’t want to stand in the way of the first black president.\u00a0 By February 5th, a quick time in politics, it may done since AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, GA, IL, MN, MO, NJ, NY, ND, OK, TN & UT primaries plus New Mexico, Idaho and Kansas Democratic primaries are on Tuesday, February 5th.<\/p>\n
That would mean the general election race would begin that night and last until November.\u00a0 What does that mean for an election process usually compressed in the days following Labor Day?\u00a0 Don’t know.\u00a0 Anyhow, lots to keep us junkies up nights until then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
16\u00a0 85%\u00a0 26%\u00a0 omph S\u00a0 bar 30.07\u00a0falls windchill 16\u00a0 Yuletide \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Crescent of the Cold Moon \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Iowa Caucus Night Oh, the political junkie in me is humming tonight.\u00a0 Obama takes Iowa.\u00a0 Huckabee takes Iowa.\u00a0 Who knew all these folks wanted Iowa in the first place?\u00a0 It would have been fun to be in … Continue reading Obama and Huckabee<\/span>