The real story from Iowa: the GOP is in trouble
Submitted by kc on Fri, 2008-01-04 15:34
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One look at these stats and it's clear that the GOP is in deep you-know-what:
Total Voter Turnout (approximate)356,000
Percentage of total vote
24.5% Obama
20.5% Edwards
19.8% Clinton
11.4% Huckabee (R)
When Republicans in a marginally red state can't turn out enough voters for a hotly contested caucus to give their chosen one more votes than the third-place Democrat, then we could be looking at a rout come November. Democrats and Independents are fed up with Bush and the GOP, and they are excited about voting in a Democratic administration.
Real Story?
You should never lump elections together. There was a Republican Caucus and a Democratic Caucus. Extrapolating Hukabee's percentage is misleading when you realize that the big loser of the night, HR Clinton, got almost TWICE as many votes as the Republican WINNER!
The big winner is the Democratic Party with an energized voter base out for Republican hide.
I agree. The point of the
I agree. The point of the post was to show that Democrats turned out in massive numbers compared to Republicans in a pretty conservative state.