What the Iowa Caucus Results Mean
Obama has a commanding lead. He is a remarkable orator, a very charismatic figure. His record is not quite as progressive as his rhetoric, but if he (or Edwards) is the nominee, I would vote Democrat in November. If it’s Clinton, with her hawkish politics and defense of extremely antilibertarian legislation such as the Patriot Act, I’ll vote for Cynthia McKinney on the Green ticket.
Edwards’s second-place showing is remarkable given the way he was outspent.
The marginal voices are being squished out. Neither Kucinich nor Mike Gravel got any showing at all, and Richardson, Biden and Dodd together couldn’t muster 3 percent. Ahead of time, Kucinich threw his support to Obama in the caucuses, and Nader to Edwards. Following the results, Dod and Biden dropped out.
Speaking of outspent, the very scary Mike Huckabee ran away with the GOP side, 34% to Romney’s 25, and Romney outspent him 3:1. And Ron Paul got 3 times as many delegates as Giuliani.
Much as I love the idea that you don’t have to spend your way to the nomination, I am extremely troubled by Huckabee’s beliefs. I don’t trust him to be the president of all of us.
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I got this note from People For the American Way regarding Huckabee:
Huckabee’s friendly, folksy demeanor can distract attention from the disturbing fact that he and his backers essentially urged conservative evangelicals to vote for him based on his being the “right” kind of Christian.
That should make Americans very nervous.
Governor Huckabee has pledged to support every item on the Radical Right’s wish list: a constitutional ban on abortion, a veto of legislation to protect gay and lesbian Americans from discrimination, support for a bill to keep federal courts from intervening when local officials violate the separation of church and state, and most importantly, a far-right Supreme Court.
When asked about what kind of justices Huckabee would appoint to the Supreme Court — something CNN predicts the next president could get to do three or more times — his answer was:
“I would want people who are in the spirit of Scalia. He’s probably my hero in the Court.”
That should make Americans even more nervous.
To find out more about what Mike Huckabee and the other Republican presidential candidates are saying about the Court, please visithttp://www.TakeBackTheCourt.org.
And for more information on Huckabee and the Religious Right, see PFAW’s reportThe Huckabee Surge: Why Religious Right Activists Like Mike and our Right Wing Watch Huckabee archive.
I got this note from People For the American Way regarding Huckabee:
Huckabee’s friendly, folksy demeanor can distract attention from the disturbing fact that he and his backers essentially urged conservative evangelicals to vote for him based on his being the “right” kind of Christian.
That should make Americans very nervous.
Governor Huckabee has pledged to support every item on the Radical Right’s wish list: a constitutional ban on abortion, a veto of legislation to protect gay and lesbian Americans from discrimination, support for a bill to keep federal courts from intervening when local officials violate the separation of church and state, and most importantly, a far-right Supreme Court.
When asked about what kind of justices Huckabee would appoint to the Supreme Court — something CNN predicts the next president could get to do three or more times — his answer was:
“I would want people who are in the spirit of Scalia. He’s probably my hero in the Court.”
That should make Americans even more nervous.
To find out more about what Mike Huckabee and the other Republican presidential candidates are saying about the Court, please visit http://www.TakeBackTheCourt.org.
And for more information on Huckabee and the Religious Right, see PFAW’s report The Huckabee Surge: Why Religious Right Activists Like Mike and our Right Wing Watch Huckabee archive.