Obama and Huckabee Win First 2008 Vote

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i think they made the right choise

Huckabee scares me- he has this crazy look in his eyes. If he becomes president I don't know what I will do...

I really figured that Hillary would come out on top for dems in every caucus. From day one It was always gonna be either Hillary or Obama for the left; that seemed to be what most journalists and pundits alike squawked about for months and months of media hype, which says a little bit about the power of media hype. Hillary came in third for Iowa, and there's a lot of women pulling their hair out, right now.

But wait a minute, who suspected Huckabee at all? This guy just comes out of nowhere and blam! Round one goes to this guy for the Republicans, which is very unfathomable that a candidate without all the 'ungodly'(sorry) amounts of money that all the other candidates so easily raked in could actually stand a chance, yet this 'godly'(sorry) man stands as the victor for Republicans in the end... (ehem!)... for Iowa, that is.

With his little money left and the rest of the union to pander to, will this be just a one-hit-wonder for Mike Huckabee, or is 2008 going to be a year for true miracles? Will contributions start pouring in for him?

This must put Republicans in a really strange predicament... Huckabee can't be described as anything other than an Evangelical Socialist. Are the small-government Republicans history?

When did small government Republicans ever exist? If you look at the budgets, spending has gone UP during every Republican administration since Lord knows when.

Man, when it comes to election time, we're all forced to understand the true meaning of Democracy, and the ballot box says it all a lot better than one person or *ideology* can.

I think this election will prove to be the most interesting ever - especially with how it has started out. Grab your popcorn!

I'm relieved that Obama has Iowa. I think Hillary is too polarizing to win the nomination on the national scale and Edwards can't mobilize the younger voters like Obama can. Obama is the best bet for the left to win the presidency. I hope he will be our next president.

I believe that having sound principles and values is very important in a candidate, but I'm really getting tired about everyone talking about religion so much. It scares me that it seems like the big reason Huckabee got elected was religious faith. The USA has been historically a religious bunch but there should be separation of church and State and religious freedom. I fear that electing Huckabee might be a step towards a national religion and laws that adhere too heavily religious doctrine.

Time to roll out the vote, folks. Democracy needs you!

I wish the press had paid some damn attention to Edwards so he would've been a national challenger. This man was truly *the* progressive major candidate and it's horrible that he was denied a chance to have people listen to him on a national level so he could raise some major funds to be viable nationally.

I worry Obama will end up like our current Dem leadership (Reid, Pelosi) in his quest for "non-partisanship."

Iowa, at least,is more progressive than I would have thought. :)...At least, the democratic side.

That's the thing, Iowa's not really progressive at all unless it comes to the buzz topics that Bush didn't wanna touch four years ago. It's a pretty monocultural, monoethnic state and it still doubled the number of blue votes. Course it's the first stage of the election and we've all been battered over the head with politics for three years since the 06 election.

We haven't even -seen- what a blue state is gonna do!

Wait'll the Dems get somewhere interesting.

You're not getting the significance, but that's okay. :)

And you're right, I'm not getting my hopes up too high, but I really didn't think he had a chance. I was predicting 3rd place, for sure.

Edwards Obama in 08.....CAN YOU FEEL IT?

Im hoping for Edwards. i don't like how Obama addresses certain issues, however he still has to be better than bush.

way to go iowa!

i would have chosen huckabee too. now the real part.

i just gotta clear my dmv record and pay those federal and local taxes, so i can contribute to my country

i confess usa, i have been the lazy scourge, by not voting or learning for the last 4 years of adult age.

please be like the other people on current who actively support something other than my own sexual lusts and sweet tooth, and lazy-batushi.

i hope the candidate who I help elect, both local and national, from this point, listens to the citizens, rather than our big-corporate task masters who set fuel and energy and water prices.

i want huckabee for prez and john edwards for vice prez

There's one main reason I think Obama will do well in the upcoming primary/election (besides, of course, that I'm an Obama supporter myself). Obama seems to excite more people than any other candidate (more than even Ron Paul, although not quite as feverishly), and actually has supporters on the Republican side. His ability to pull together both sides of the aisle means he'll actually be able to accomplish stuff. Huckabee on the other hand seems to pull a lot of criticism. A lot of people think he's crazy. I don't (although it's worth noting he has a horrible sense of humor), although I don't support him due to his lack of knowledge on foreign affairs or health care. He doesn't seem to be as well thought out or planned out on how he'll deal with issues when pres as other candidates. That being said, I wouldn't vote Republican anyway.
On a side point, why do we even have the two party system?
And why should Iowa and New Hampshire matter so much? Wouldn't it be more fair if all the primaries were on the same day? It would allow everyone to truely vote the way they feel regardless of how many votes said candidate got in the past. Although Kucinich's role in helping Obama by telling his supporters to vote for him was certainly interesting...
Oh, and I do agree that the other candidates should have gotten more media attention. It's the media's responsibility to bring the news to the people, correct? So doesn't that entail equal coverage of all the candidates?

well, look at it this way...we have a history of leaders promising change and renigging on it. However, we also have an even greater history of leaders promoting change and coming through...lincoln, kennedy etc.

the way i look at it, which candidate sounds, looks and feels different?

OBAMA

We NH voters do not care what Iowa thinks, we think for ourselves as individuals not based on religion or likability. Anyone can be likable but, not everyone can be president.
Mitt Romney is the most presidential candidate in the race and I think you will see that in the primary results.

I totally agree, our phone rings off the hook with candidates calling it's a huge turn off. If they want the New Hampshire vote stop calling so much we hate that!
It's like the annoying telemarketers trying to sell us what we do not want.
By now we all know who we really want to vote for stop calling us! UGH!