[MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] Iowa results

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

As you surely know, Huckabee and Obama are the two winners in Iowa. 
What's next?  Wyoming on Saturday and New Hampshire on Tuesday.  I won't 
really care about the Wyoming results (will anyone outside Wyoming?) but 
New Hampshire can be important.  I would expect both Romney and Giuliani 
to do better in New Hampshire, but we'll see.

I liked this article about Huckabee:

http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/intro/

I would definitely like to see him as the Republican candidate.  He seems 
much more genuine to me than the others.  I kinda like him.  The others 
mostly make my blood boil.  You know he has to be a pretty decent guy if 
I'd say I kinda like him and he says that he doesn't believe Darwin's 
theory of evolution!


On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Jonathan King wrote:

> To be honest, I have had increasing confidence that Mike Huckabee will 
> be the GOP nominee. There are only two Republicans running who have any 
> stage presence at all, and Huckabee has a lot more of it than Mitt.
>
> So, to be consistent, I should have been able to predict that Obama 
> would come out way ahead in Iowa as well. But I didn't, because Edwards 
> has some presence, and Hillary had a lot of advantages as well. I think 
> it is still Clinton's race to lose, but this was an inauspicious start.

Hillary wasn't making it with her "experience" argument.  I will like any 
one of those three, but I like her the least.  Obama is quite right to 
focus on reuniting the country.  Clinton will not be able to do that.  I 
like Edwards' ideas -- he is right up front with them and they are good. 
Obama is very focused on inspiring us, which is nice, but we need to hear 
more definite plans someday.


> Of course, as usual, I will be voting in the primaries way too late to 
> have any impact on any of this. For that matter, my vote in November has 
> no impact either since the odds that any Republican will take Maryland 
> this year are really about as close to zilch as you care to project. 
> Those of you back in Missouri are going to have a lot more impact most 
> voters.

Minnesota will surely vote Democrat this time (as last time).  It will be 
great if we can get rid of Norm Coleman -- that's the more pressing issue 
up here.  I don't know who'll run against him.  Franken is trying but I 
don't know if he really has a chance.  He just hasn't transitioned well 
from comic to serious candidate.  He's a smart enough guy, and I think he 
can do the job, but I don't know if he can win.

Mike

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