{"id":2327,"date":"2008-01-03T16:39:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T22:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/caucus\/"},"modified":"2008-01-03T16:39:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T22:39:17","slug":"caucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/caucus\/","title":{"rendered":"Caucus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight: Iowa! While it may seem to have come upon us suddenly, I feel I’ve been waiting for a year. I talked to a few people this past holiday and was surprised by how many like Obama (I do) and how many could live with McCain (I could).<\/p>\n

I despise Nit Romney after his “we’re all Christians” speech. I dread Clinton v Guiliani — no winner in that face-off. (Though I could more easily live with Clinton.)<\/p>\n

Curiously, the Republicans in Iowa don’t really caucus. They effectively have a primary: pick one, go home. I think Huckabee will do well. He’s a nice guy, a real compassionate conservative, unlike Duhbya. Too bad he doesn’t believe in evolution, wants a 30% sales tax, and thinks we should round up Pakistanis — a bit of a slip of the halo, there, but one that probably increases his appeal to the Republican base.<\/p>\n

As for the Dems, in caucus, if your candidate doesn’t get 15% tonight, you can move on to a more electable choice. It’s all about who is in the room at the time.<\/p>\n

Four years ago, I was a Dean supporter. Dean got screwed by the media. Watch closely what dirty tricks come out tomorrow and all the way to Election Day. The Swiftboaters have already started their engines.<\/p>\n

Watch Charlie Rose tonight (repeats at noon tomorrow). If you can stand him (I can’t), he will have analysis from interesting guests (if he lets them get a word in edgewise).<\/p>\n

Watch ABC Saturday night, with back-to-back Republican and Democratic debates just before New Hampshire. Be ready for 2\/5 — the nominees will more than likely be determined by then. mjh<\/span><\/p>\n

PS: Whatever happens this year, we can all celebrate the end of the Bush Error. Duhbya, Cheney, Rove — gone!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight: Iowa! While it may seem to have come upon us suddenly, I feel I’ve been waiting for a year. I talked to a few people this past holiday and was surprised by how many like Obama (I do) and how many could live with McCain (I could). I despise Nit Romney after his “we’re … Continue reading Caucus<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}