Thursday, January 03, 2008
Caucus Schmaucus
We've been hearing about the damned Iowa caucuses for a year. Like New Hampshire, a minute number of unrepresentative voters have a hugely exaggerated influence on the national presidential election. To sum up today's Democratic results: Obama received a little more than 1/3rd of the "preferences," Clinton & Edwards a little less than 1/3rd. Looked at rationally, it was a three-way tie. For all the effort & money, only a small number of actual convention delegates result from this process, & it's not winner-take-all. Obama's victory speech sounds like he just won a landslide election in November, & now he can call for peace & unity.
I'm still leaning toward Edwards because he says he'll pull all American troops except one brigade out of Iraq within his first year in office, & promises to kick some asses.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
I'm still leaning toward Edwards because he says he'll pull all American troops except one brigade out of Iraq within his first year in office, & promises to kick some asses.
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