GodTube presidential poll

Guess who's winning? Huckabee of course, is there any Christian candidate? Though, Obama and Thompson are tied for second :-) Ron Paul only has 6.5%, I guess the Paulians haven't discovered it yet.

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McCain wins

What the heck is wrong with these people? They love McCain for some weird reason. I guess they didn't really care about illegal immigration either.

And it's looking like it wasn't an Obama blowout (hehehehe). Yeah! So, he isn't our political savior after all?

Record turnout in NH

But it's not all Obamania(sorry lefties!)

Secretary of State William Gardner has predicted 260,000 Granite Staters will vote in the Democratic primary and 240,000 will vote in the Republican primary. He predicted that 150,000 undeclared voters will cast votes - 90,000 in the Democratic primary and 60,000 in the Republican primary.

I'm feeling a little bit better now and thinking about canceling my plans for a bunker :-)

The Democrats ran out of ballots

Obamania! So, tell me how we win in November against this? From Drudge:

Secretary of State is making runs to Seacoast – Hampton, Portsmouth – and Southern Hillsborough – Pelham, Nashua – to bring extra democratic ballots. Many towns are reporting shortages... Developing...

How can Hillary compete against the new Messiah?

Who has been "delivered to us" and is not the Word made flesh but the triumph of word over flesh:

Obama's finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don't even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped flowing passively by, and, just for an instant, contracted around you, made you aware of its presence, and your role in it. He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair. The other great leaders I've heard guide us towards a better politics, but Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves, to the place where America exists as a glittering ideal, and where we, its honored inhabitants, seem capable of achieving it, and thus of sharing in its meaning and transcendence.

How does Hillary compete against this? She's just a politician, he's the second coming. She wants politics as usual but he wants to transcend politics for unity and hope (unity in what is the question, of course).

And when the dust clears and we're on to the general who wins in the match between Huckabee and Obama?

So we've got Huckabee with Jesus as his running mate versus, it seems, the Second Coming of Jesus Himself. I guess religious voters are going to have a hard time deciding here.

Decisions, decisions!

Blackwater assassinating Obama?

This is what passes for content in the HuffPost. I think I would be more fearful of Clinton Inc. :-)

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Fox projects Obama the winner

Well, there you go. I hope Obama doesn't get the nomination because he's too inexperienced and would be a tough opponent (given that style trumps substance in politics today).

Obama turnout?

Looks like it.

(As you can tell I'll liveblogging the caucus)

The Blogging Caesar predicts a Huckabee and Obama win in Iowa

I'm a little torn by his prediction. I'm elated that he thinks Thompson will come in third and a little concerned because I don't want Huckabee to win by that much.

He's putting up links to other predictions as well.

Clinton precinct captain who switched to Obama is switching again

It looks like the race for president is just as fluid on the left as it is on the right:

Yet when Klopfer showed up at an Edwards house party this morning, it was because she was on the verge of switching again.

"In both of those people, I didn't see the experience that I'd like to see and kind of the groundedness that I'd like to see," she said of Obama and Clinton, "so I'm really looking at Edwards, and I'm still really looking at Richardson."

Klopfer said she went to see Richardson when he held an event in Mount Pleasant last night and was impressed by both Richardson then and Edwards today.

"Probably I'll caucus for Richardson," she said after Edwards spoke. "My guess is he won't be viable, and then I'll probably scoot right over to Edwards."

Here's the ad that Obama made of her switch.

She blinked!

I think Obama won this staring contest.

Obama's Christmas ad

Ahhhh! It's so cute! Obama's family is lovely. I think he wins the Christmas ad contest for the cuteness of his daughters. And he brilliantly covered everyone by having his daughters say, "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Holidays." (I'm just going to ignore the whole "stake in each other" bit.)

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Obama: "you don’t even have to stoop so low as to eat at McDonalds"

Obama might have been busting on the elite attitude of his fellow Senator or he might be demonstrating his own elitism. Who knows?

Obama recalled a conversation he had with another senator who was giving him grief about working for the meal ban. The other Senator questioned to Obama, “What do you expect me to just start eating at McDonalds all the time?”

Obama recalled his response, “You get paid $160,000 a year, you can even afford Applebee's, you don’t even have to stoop so low as to eat at McDonalds.”

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But he did it in front of many who probably make it a habit to stoop to eating at McDonald's.

Obama's new ad

A Clinton precinct captain switched to Obama over the kindergarten controversy:

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Pretty in your face there!


I was wondering who our lefty readers would be voting for. Could you please leave a comment to let me know who you are voting for?

Obama flip-flopped on wanting to run for president

Well, that's what it sounds like Clinton is saying:

On Sunday, Clinton's campaign issued a memo suggesting that Obama is lying when he told voters in Boston that he has has "not been planning to run for president for however number of years some of the other candidates have been planning for," a seeming reference to Clinton.

Clinton responded by having her campaign issue a press release in which news articles show that Obama wrote in both kindergarten and third grade essays that when he grows up he wants to be "a president."

"I'm sure tomorrow they'll attack him for being a flip-flopper because he told his second grade teacher he wanted to be an astronaut," Burton said in response.

This is plain silly! I bet if they looked harder they'll find better skeletons in the closet than that!

Obama leading Clinton among women in Iowa!

*snicker*

In the new poll, Obama leads with support from 31 percent of women likely attend the caucuses, compared to 26 percent for Clinton. In October, Clinton was the preferred candidate of 34 percent of women caucusgoers, compared to 21 percent for Obama.

Women represent roughly six in 10 Democratic caucusgoers, according to the new poll.

Apparently women think she'll start a war with Iran:

Iowa City Democrat Katharyn Browne said she abandoned her support for Clinton in the past month and now supports Obama in light of the Iran issue.

Obama spent weeks in October and November attacking Clinton's support for a measure that allowed President Bush to declare the Iran's Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization, a move Obama said was a step toward war. Clinton said the measure enhanced U.S. negotiating strength with Iran.

"An Iran war terrifies me," said Browne, a 30-year-old University of Iowa student.

I guess triangulation is tougher than Bill Clinton made it look.

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Obama supporters pressed SC officials to keep Colbert off ballot

You think he might be afraid of a little competition or maybe he lacks a sense of humor :-)

Two prominent supporters of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign in South Carolina called state Democratic Party officials and urged them to keep funnyman Stephen Colbert's name off the primary ballot, according to party officials and Obama supporters.

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The Obama campaign denied any connection to the phone calls.

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"I placed the calls as a concerned Democrat, realizing that we are a country in despair," Sellers told CNN. "It is not a time for games or to make a mockery of the process."

The country's in despair? Where? Are you in despair?

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