Friday January 4, 2008 12:45 pm
Presidential Race Changed by Iowa
Even those who aren’t politically savvy know about the Iowa Caucuses - perhaps that’s why they were covered on three different cable networks Thursday evening. The results are in, the votes tallied, and the outcome of the Caucus is pretty surprising. On the strength of these results alone, two Presidential hopefuls have already completely dropped out the race. That’s the strength of popular opinion…at least, in Iowa.
Republican Mike Huckabee was declared winner for his party early in the evening, with Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson falling well behind Huckabee in votes. Early Republican frontrunner John McCain had a dismal showing with only 14%, while former mayor Guiliani barely even registered on the poll.
On the Democratic side, Barack Obama leapt to an early lead and held on, becoming the party winner before the night was all said and done. Surprisingly, it was not Senator Hillary Clinton but John Edwards who fell into second place. Bill Richardson brought up the rear with a low 4%, while Democratic hopefuls Joe Biden and Chris Dodd - who have both since dropped out of the race - received 1% and 0% of the vote respectively.
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Tomorrow is voting time. The problem is, I'm still undecided. This stinks. you think i'd get anything if i did a classifieds saying "WANT MY VOTE,GIMME SOMETHING!" lol. in all seriousness, this is tough. i'll be voting around 2pm central time, so i'll have some more time to think about this.
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If you live in a swing state your vote might matter but if not, than just fill in the blank because the beauty of the electoral college makes your vote worthless. In all seriousness though, make sure you review whats important to you and make your decision on how the candidates handle that issue. I know how I'm voting but I knew that right after I voted for Gore and watched the ensueing nightmare. Anyway, I hope everyone, no matter what your preference, gets out and votes tomorrow. It's always been my opinion that if you don't vote you have no right to bitch about current conditions.
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Take a look at his location, bud. He's a Lone Star like me!! But I *still* voted against da grain!!!! Woohoo! :P Best of luck, Mr. Antman :)
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ok, i gone done and voted. half the people at the jr. high didn't think i was there to vote, cuz they thought i was too young. then i started to get upset, and they shot me with a tazer. after i woke up about 5 min later, they sent me to a booth and let me vote. then they gave me a donut for the inconvienence they caused me. i still managed to make it to class on time.
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[url=http://www.fec.gov/pages/ecworks.htm] Some Answers: [/url] [i]Whichever party slate wins the most popular votes in the State becomes that State's Electors-so that, in effect, whichever presidential ticket gets the most popular votes in a State wins all the Electors of that State.[/i]
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[quote author="sweet jesus"]If you live in a swing state your vote might matter but if not, than just fill in the blank because the beauty of the electoral college makes your vote worthless.[/quote] Please explain this to me, since I'm new at all this. Popular votes (made by us) translate to electoral votes, right? Why do they even need electoral votes then? Just use the number from the population? Either way, they were able to determine that Bush won last time, by a mere 200K? How did they figure that out, if it's electorals that count. I'm confused.
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