For those of you following the Iowa machinations the early results show Obama and Huckabee winning.

For the Republicans:

• Huckabee: 31
• Romney: 23
• Thompson: 13
• McCain: 12
• Giuliani: 11

No matter who wins...people will say Iowa doesn't matter.

And I'll be one of them!

Iowa is representative of only a small fraction of voters, and many people have lost Iowa but gone on to win not only their party's nomination but also the Presidency.

Still, it gives political junkies something to talk about.
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Much ado is being made of Mike Huckabee's second place finish in the Iowa straw poll ( Read more... )

This is incredibly bad news. The primary is still months away!
NEW YORK (AP) - Warning that her campaign needs "a new approach to winning," Hillary Rodham Clinton's deputy campaign manager wrote a memo this week urging the Democratic front-runner to bypass next year's Iowa caucuses to focus time and money on states where she's faring better.
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