Friday- After the Caucus

Living in southern Minnesota we had all the ads for the Iowa caucuses which were held yesterday. I am glad they are over- but I know that is only a pipe dream. Minnesota's primary is only a month away.

Earlier in the week I did one of those online polls at ABC News. They ask a series of political questions with choices to pick for what your opinion is on each one. I have done it a couple of times at different places, and in spite of different types of answers I always seem to come out the same.

I am most in agreement with- Mike Gravel, former Governor of Alaska.
Then comes Dennis Kusinich.
And third- Chris Dodd.

I guess I will never be mistaken for the mainstream of anything! Esepcially since among them they got the equivalent of somewhere around 0% last evening.

Another site, Glassbooth has a really good set of questions. There I come in first with Kucinich, second with Gravel and third with Hillary Clinton. Finally, I get into the mainstream. Wait, I'm not so sure that's a good thing.

Actually as many pointed out the results were interesting. Obama and Edwards beating Hillary. Huckabee defeating Romney and Guiliani being barely visible. But it is only the beginning of what may be a heated series of races and primaries. Only time will tell.

And I live in the awareness that the democrats will still find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Interestingly, though, here is how Andrew Sullivan saw it:

The under-30s backed Obama over Clinton by 57 to 11 percent. And you turned out tonight. Keep it coming. --(link)
.....
Tonight was in many ways devastating news for the GOP. Twice as many people turned out for the Democrats than the Republicans. Clearly independents prefer the Dems.

Now look at how the caucus-goers defined themselves in the entrance polls. Among the Dems: Very Liberal: 18 percent; Somewhat Liberal: 36 percent; Moderate: 40 percent; Conservative: 6 percent. Now check out the Republicans: Very Conservative: 45 percent; Somewhat Conservative: 43 percent; Moderate: 11 percent; Liberal: 1 percent.

One is a national party; the other is on its way to being an ideological church. The damage Bush and Rove have done - revealed in 2006 - is now inescapable. --(link)

We'll see. We will see.

So anyway, on we go to New Hampshire ... and beyond.