They keep showing the percentages for the two parties independently, and the headlines say things like “Obama wins Democratic Caucus,” but here are the total numbers (from Dailykos), out of 356,000 total voters including Democrats and Republicans:
24.5% Obama
20.5% Edwards
19.8% Clinton
11.4% Huckabee
The #1 Republican comes in 4th.
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on January 4, 2008 at 11:03 am Lynn wrote:
So, what does this mean? There are 4 people more poplular (in Iowa) than Huckleberry.
on January 4, 2008 at 3:06 pm Lynn wrote:
Four, counting Ophra that is.
on January 7, 2008 at 5:51 pm George Siede wrote:
Donna thinks this might be because a lot of republicans caucused for Obama in order to subvert support for Hillary.
Xorge
on January 7, 2008 at 7:44 pm Tom wrote:
I hadn’t heard the notion that Republicans caucused for Obama, but they’ve done that kind of thing before so I wouldn’t be surprised. Still, it’s not like 2004 when the Republican candidate was a foregone conclusion — there’s a lot of desperate fighting going on within the Republican Party right now, so maybe New Hampshire (a more traditional election format) will be a better indicator.
I was dubious about Obama for a while (which made me unpopular in the Chicago liberal crowd I run with), but I’m finding myself more and more convinced that he’s the guy for me. I wasn’t sure who I liked more, but I was worried that Obama had stacks of great ideas and seemingly no intention of explaining how he planned to do any of this. But a little of that is coming out, and more and more I’m realizing that he (and any one of the others, for that matter) would be an idiot to give specifics he can be held to later under currently unforeseen circumstances.
NPR today had a piece where they were talking to New Hampshire voters — more than one person was going to vote for Romney because, among other things, he looks presidential. And a couple made allusions to Huckabee being their choice because he’s a straight talker.
Didn’t a bunch of people vote for W because he’s a straight talker? ‘Course, turns out he’s not. But still — recent history shows that this isn’t really a good reason by itself to vote for a guy. Eeesh.
on January 9, 2008 at 8:23 am Doug wrote:
I think many of Romneys supporters like him because he’s a straight
talker.