Comments on: blogger & podcaster wins iowa nomination

By: Hugh

Hugh — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:19:50 +0000

@zeke: well it’s not an election, it’s a caucus (kinda like a leadership convention in Canada). And I gather the caucuses are stranger than the primaries, but I don’t know the details. The “low” numbers for the Dems is actually double the turn-out from the last Iowa caucus, so that’s interesting.

Guiliani conceded Iowa - he did not even campaign there, which explains his low numbers - that and overwhelming majority of evangelicals who vote in the Republican caucus in Iowa - a market segmet guiliani doesn’t sell well to.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:49:23 +0000

thanks.

By: julien

julien — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:50:46 +0000

you misspelled Barack.

By: Zeke

Zeke — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:37:26 +0000

Howdy!

You know that only 82,941 people voted for Obama vs. 65,073 for Clinton. For comparison purposes 202,302 voted for Gérald Tremblay and 136,777 for Pierre Bourque in the last municipal elections here.

On the Republican side Huckabee got 39,814 votes, and Guiliani only 4,013.

There aren’t all that many people in Iowa, and not a lot of them vote in the caucuses which are not a secret ballot either (hence the poor showing by Rudy).

Now don’t get me started on New Hampshire :-)