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The Iowa Wake-Up Call

by Bill Dusty

DEMOCRATIC WINNER – Barack Obama
REPUBLICAN WINNER – Mike Huckabee

Okay, so the results are in from the Iowa Caucuses, and they weren’t pretty for either Mitt Romney or Hillary Clinton. But let’s face it, too: It’s not exactly the end of the road for the favored candidates, either.

Hillary was hoping to come out on top to put some distance between her and Obama. But Obama ended up besting her easily in this match. But “the Bitch” has a big machine backing her up, so Iowa should be a distant, albeit sobering, memory come February.

Mitt Romney was also hoping to come out on top in order to legitimize his own run for office. He’s the popular choice among conservatives, but loses considerable ground in nationwide polls versus both Rudy Giuliani and John McCain. He now faces an uphill fight to remain in the race.

But what does the Iowa Caucus really mean to us common folks in the long run? The Iowa voters are clearly not reflective of any national consensus, where Hillary still leads comfortably and, for cripes sake, Romney doesn’t even come in third. In the Iowa results, Giuliani garnered a mere 3.46% of the votes (even Ron Paul beat him). Nationwide, however, the former NYC mayor sweeps in 20% of the vote according to this poll [taken Dec. 19-30, 2007]. (The same poll offers even better hope for McCain, who tapped in at 22%.)

For Hillary, the Iowa results do serve as a wake-up call, but really no more than a yawning one. She still sits in the driver’s seat in this recent poll. For Romney on the other hand, this one really hurts. He needed a victory. And now he really needs one in New Hampshire.

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Mike Huckabee:
This man tends to alarm me – and I’m a Republican. I don’t mind a religious president, but when a candidate intimates that he is God’s guy, I start to get an uneasy feeling about him. When I saw the below YouTube video clip, I didn’t know whether to roll my eyes or cringe.

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Dodd and Biden Out:
God must not have liked either Christopher Dodd or Joseph Biden, since both candidates were compelled to withdraw from the race following the Iowa Caucus. I was particularly happy to see Dodd bail out, since he was a favorite of the maniacally psychotic Valley Advocate editor, Alan Bisbort.

On your way, boys….

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Others who seem destined for early exits are Republican Fred Thompson, whose flailing campaign never seemed to ever get ramped up, and Democrat Dennis Kucinich, who has got to be running on vapors at this point. Democrat Mike Gravel is wasting his time, and Republican Duncan Hunter might as well call it quits this weekend.

Now it’s on to New Hampshire, where an equally miniscule and non-representative voting block will dash the hopes and dreams of the remaining 2008 Presidential contenders and pretenders.

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Posted by Bill Dusty on Jan 4th, 2008 and filed under Elections, Feature Stories, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.