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Obama’s speech is here.

Huckabee’s speech is here.

Huckabee’s speech was gracious and personable. It was pure Huckabee and considering the insiders he’s going up against, he needed this speech to reach as many undecided or uninterested GOP voters as possible. Most of the liberal blogosphere seems to think that the corporatists will line up with McCain after tonight. I think they’ll go with Thompson unless Giuliani can pull something out of his ass by the time South Carolina votes.

Obama’s speech was inspiring and personable. It was pure Obama. As I mentioned before, I think that the Clinton campaign will pull more dirty tricks. I’m also interested to see what the media will tell people to believe in the next few days. The standard ploy is to play up the hype, then 3 days later do the hit jobs. But the NH debates are on Saturday (they vote in the primary on Tues. Jan. 8), so the media doesn’t quite have the time to change up the narrative that fast unless the debates go wonky. He’s also going up against the insiders, both the Democratic “leadership” and the Black “leadership”. Whether he wins or loses in NH, I think that South Carolina will be Obama’s big media test on how the autonomous Black voting bloc will view him.

Over at CNNs Political Ticker, they’re blogging their data. As I mentioned before, I was stunned that Obama won in Iowa. The state is 94.9% white. I told my husband that means Iowa is even whiter than he is. With South Carolina, a state with an even larger percentage of non-white voters, one could assume that Obama would win the primary there too. After all, his win in Iowa puts to rest a lot of unwarranted fears of lame Black people who’d hand-wring and whine that “white people will never vote for a Black man”. I don’t get the “loyalty to the Clinton’s” line in that in that. The Clinton’s have never done shit for Black people, so I’m not sure where the loyalty is coming from.

Another data blog blurg that’s interesting to me is that women voted for Obama (35%) over Clinton (30%). Well, according to CNN, women in the over 60 age group voted for Clinton. Too hear that twit Andrea Mitchell at MSNBC yammer on, this is detrimental to Clinton. I don’t know that that’s a huge gap, but I’ll never understand percentages and punditry (I say this because Obama’s 119pt*. win over Clinton tonight is a “whooping”, whereas Huckabee’s 119pt. win over Romney simply “changes the dynamics”.).

Make of it as you will, the commenters at these sites are and the bigheaded mediadorks are certianly doing the same. As this data is certainly interesting to me, I know and see how the Clinton campaign works. This means that we can probably expect some serious smears against Obama in the next day.

*See…I suck at The Math and somehow, I always get 9 and 11 mixed up when I do subtraction. Don’t ask me why. I also get my hundreds and thousands confused with pisses off my husband. Yes. I’m an idiot.

Oh hell…I’m really upset that Dodd didn’t do well in Iowa. He lost to ‘undecided’! I understand that he had these media corporations against him (Biden too!), but he moved his family to Iowa. Exactly what was his campaign doing with him out there? I’m not too upset about Biden. Both him and Richardson have great foreign experience, but Biden is way too corporate for my tastes. Some people excuse that because of the situation in Delaware. I’m not quite buying it. But they both did well in the debates, when the talking heads actually gave them time, and I’ll be sorry to see them leave before Nevada.

CNN says:

Delaware Sen Joe Biden will abandon his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, three sources tell CNN. He is not expected to endorse any other candidate tonight.

A senior campaign aide tells CNN that Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd is abandoning his campaign for president as well — an official announcement is expected shortly.

The email I received from the Dodd campaign:

I count the past year of campaigning for the presidency as one of the most rewarding in a career of public service.

Unfortunately, I am withdrawing from that campaign tonight.

But there is no reason to hang our heads this evening — only the opportunity to look towards a continuation of the work we started last January: ending the Iraq War, restoring the Constitution, and putting a Democrat in the White House.

I know a lot of you came to this email list through a shared desire to return our nation to one that respects the rule of law, and I want to make one thing clear to all of you:

The fight to restore the Constitution and stop retroactive immunity does not end with my Presidential campaign. FISA will come back in a few weeks and my pledge to filibuster ANY bill that includes retroactive immunity remains operative.

You’ve been an invaluable ally in the battle, and I’ll need you to stick by my side despite tonight’s caucus results.

So, one more time, thank you for all of your efforts throughout the course of this entire Presidential campaign.

We made a real difference in shaping the debate, and we’ll continue to do so in the coming days, weeks and years.

I’ll never forget you, and what we’ve fought for, together, over the past year.

Chris Dodd

Whoa…Sen. Obama is the projected winner of Iowa according to MSNBC. I’m stunned. I didn’t expect Sen. Clinton to win, I thought that Edwards would carry Iowa no problem, especially after seeing Huckabee’s numbers. I mean, they both have the same message and seem to have the same or similar beliefs. There’s no difference between the two, in my opinion, besides the fact that ones a lawyer and one’s a minister.

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So far, Clinton and Edwards are vying for second place.

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There are reports that Biden, Dodd and Richardson supporters are joining Kucinich supporters in going to Obama as their 2nd choice. The news channels are reporting that, though from watching C-SPAN and reading other blogs, that doesn’t necessarily bare out. It seems that those supporters are either going to Edwards or splitting between Edwards or Obama.

At least CNN and MSNBC are both calling Iowa for the Huckster. This should be interesting and I’m not at all surprised that people in Iowa fell for his schtick. And yes, even though I despise Huckabee and think of him as nothing more than a one-trick pony, I see the Corporate Republicans are scared of his message and that tickles me to no end. I can’t wait to see how the money flows as these primaries go on.

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I’m not shocked that Giuliani’s numbers are so ridiculously low. My hope is that this means the media will stop trying to force President Drag Queen on us.

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Now, I wonder if this means Romney is going to dump more money into New Hampshire. After all, the papers there and in nearby states have either “anti-endorsed” him or endorsed someone else. I’d also be interesting in seeing how Romney does in the Wyoming Caucus on Saturday (It’s GOP only).