Early news is that Barak Obama is leading in Iowa. Anyone else see or hear anything?

http://www.iowacaucusresults.com/

Senator Barack Obama : 34.69%
Senator John Edwards : 31.52%
Senator Hillary Clinton : 31.00%
Governor Bill Richardson : 1.69%
Senator Joe Biden : 1.03%
Senator Chris Dodd : 0.04%
Uncommitted : 0.03%
Precincts Reporting: 1057 of 1781
(Percentages are State Delegate Equivalents.)

That site refreshes as the results come in CC

You're the best, will you be here participating with me for the whole election cycle?

I doubt it as I think all politicians are crooks since they change as soon as they get in office or when they get money from big companies

Maybe the next one won't, and we can treat it like a horserace, not a people vote race.

I would not mind politics if they would not try to make news laws and impose all sorts of restrictions on people and rely more on common sense then

Because I know you are all so interested in when you vote, I have the dates of your primary:

On Jan 8th 2008: New Hampshire

On Jan 15th 2008: Michigan

On Jan 19th 2008: South Carolina and Nevada

On Jan 26th 2008: South Carolina

On Jan 29th 2008: Florida

On Feb 1st 2008: Maine

On Feb 5th 2008: North Dakota, Montana, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Connecticut, Delaware, Missouri, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, American Samoa, New York, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Tennessee, Utah, Illinois, Kansas, Idaho, Georgia, Alabama, Alaska, and Arizona.

On Feb 9th 2008: Washington, Louisiana, Guam, Virgin Islands, and Kansas.

On Feb 10th 2008: Maine

On Feb 12th 2008: Washington DC, Virginia, and Maryland

On Feb 19th 2008: Wisconsin and Hawaii

On Feb 23rd 2008: Virgin Islands, American Samoa

On Feb 24th 2008: Puerto Rico

On Mar 4th 2008: Texas, Rhode Island, Vermont and Ohio

On Mar 8th 2008: Wyoming

On Mar 11th 2008: Mississippi

On Apr 22nd 2008: Pennsylvania

On May 3rd 2008: Guam

On May 6th 2008: North Carolina and Indiana

On May 13th 2008: Nebraska and West Virginia

On May 20th 2008: Kentucky and Oregon

On May 27th 2008: Idaho

On Jun 1st 2008: Puerto Rico

On Jun 3rd 2008: New Mexico, Montana and South Dakota

If you see a state listed as having a Primary on two different dates, that just means that on one date they are having a Democrat Primary, the other a Republican. Please check with your local election office to find out if you are eligible to vote and where your polling place is located. You can also call 1-888-VOTE-SMART (1-888-868-3762)

Any omissions are purly unintentional, my list was received from http://www.vote-smart.org

CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll. Jan. 9-10, 2008. N=443 registered voters nationwide who are Democrats or lean Democrats. MoE ± 4.5.

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"Please tell me which of the following people you would be most likely to support for the Democratic nomination for president: [see below]?" Names rotated. For 10/07 and earlier, includes second choices of Gore supporters.

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1/9-10/08
%
Hillary Clinton
49

Barack Obama
36

John Edwards
12

Dennis Kucinich
1

Mike Gravel
-

Unsure
2

Here you go Chicken
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/

It's flash based but lower down on the page you can click the state and see the results I hope this appeases the mighty chicken

Oh that's a nice link, thanks Trall!

I hoped you would approve of it

Barack Obama has swept another 3 states tonight, along with this weekend's...it's not looking good for Hillary.

I notice Barack actually adds people on twitter while Hillary does not. Maybe that is why he has a fan base 10x of what Hillary has

http://twitter.com/hillaryclinton
http://twitter.com/barackobama

Wonders if they will still use this after the election

Could be, could be!!

I heard on the radio earlier that Hillary didn't have all of the state by state local campaign offices set up and running the way that Obama does. That there were no locals helping in the campaign the way that there should have been.

Thats probably because she not making money to do these things like he is

McCain might have screwed up too with the new money rules on campaign spending. Something about him borrowing against Government matching funds and then hitting the spending limit.

Well I'm not voting for Hillary or Barack

McCain is to war happy for me.

We shall all find out on March 4th, otherwise known as Super Tuesday part Deux!

I voted for Hilary in the primary. She and Barack seem almost identical as far as policy goes, so I voted based on experience. Since she was her husband's co-president, I think she knows the job well enough.

In the end, I'll vote for the democratic nominee, and that appears to be Obama.

Blark. Not a big Obama fan, but anyone is better than Dubya.

I'm not in love with anyone, to tell you the truth. Clinton seems so cold, but I like her ideas and her aggressiveness. Obama is a little too green for me.

Which everone gets the nod, I fully believe the other one will be tagged for the second spot.

Hillary would have more power to stay in senate.

She may be very embarrassed, she's wanted this for decades.

Huckabee has dropped out of the Republican Party race for President.

Also, Hillary has won Rhode Island (per MSNBC)

Texas and Ohio!!

And she mentioned having obamma as her running mate.

All three of the candidates scare the heck out of me for different reasons.

McCain - The worst thing that scares me about him is him saying he'd stay in Iraq for 100 years if needed. But I'm also worried that he will die in office if elected. He's 72 now and doesn't look like the picture of health.

Obama - There are too many rednecks in the country and if he's elected, some idiot will at least try to kill him. It might even be a women if Hillary is Vice President.

Hillary - I trust her judgement more than any other candidate, but if she picks Obama as a Vice President, a lot of blacks might want to shoot her to make Obama the first black president in history.

I'm predicting none of them will make it to the second term. I hope I'm wrong. I lived through Kennedy's assasination and it was totally depressing. The nation went through a long period of mourning and upheaval.

How is Obama the first black President-he is biracial.

If he does bad he's black if he does good he will be biracial. Just look at how they talked about Tiger woods.

Does anyone else have the feeling that the election is following the plot of the last year of The West Wing?

As long as Obama wins I don't care.

Either way , the best liar wins How many Presidents do you know that take office and actually do what they promise That's not a real question by the way so no need for an answer

I totally agree, thats the reason why Ive never voted.

Obama just scares the livin daylights out of me , I dont think he is showing who he really is & has everyone buffaloed !

If they showed you who they really were they would not get elected at all

A choice of being shot in the face or stabbed in the back.

Mccain is going to be in my town tomorrow at 10AM for a speech. Too bad I'll be in Indy at that time. Otherwise I would have gotten tickets for it last night. The CEO of my company and a few drivers will be there.

I'd rather see it coming. Atleast with McCain we know we're screwed. Too many think of Obama as the next messiah.

Perhaps we can buy bullet proof masks?

Obama is not the next messiah, but it kills me to see my wife sitting over there suffering everyday when stem cell research could help if it was allowed. McCain will see to it that it continues to be not allowed. And she can't handle riding in the truck for much more than a half hour so going all the way to where it is allowed isn't happening either. Besides, who has the money for that? So I cannot vote that way.

I may be unique here in my reasoning. But that's my penny or two.

I am for stem cell research too.

Well our suspended overtime is being unsuspended due to a scheduled Obama riot I mean gathering on Tuesday. I'm expecting the natives to get restless regardless if he wins or loses and this opinion is based on the fact that they rioted when the Bulls won. They will also riot if he doesn't win.

Yep, I hate that crap when the news pumps up the michigan/ohio state fans as well then wonder why the people tear down the goal posts when just a week before they were on air pushing the limits by drawing stuff on the sidewalks and walking in to diners and starting crap.

I don't understand people much.

I am to tired to riot- We Democartes have worked our butts off last 3 days. No just looked it still there. Amy I just checked my email and one of my nieces is going to be there.

tell her to be safe

They are grown-they are visiting his folks in Kettering,Ohio. She said they will be in Chicago Monday night then going home Wednesday.

I told you so http://www.kentucky.com/329/story/577630.html

This op-ed piece in The New York Times articulates what has gone wrong with the Republican party far better than I ever could. It's a good read, so I will post a copy of it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/opinion/03cohen.html?em
"Republican Blues

By ROGER COHEN
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.

Fazal Fazlin has an American story. Raised in Karachi, Pakistan, he came to the United States in 1969 with an engineering degree and little else. Now he lives on a five-acre estate in the waterfront mansion that once belonged to Nelson Poynter, luminary of the newspaper business.

Poynter, who died in 1978, was the owner of The St. Petersburg Times, a bastion of journalistic excellence and liberal tradition.

Liberalism was never Fazlin’s thing. For most of his rags-to-riches American life, he was a Nixon Republican.

“I felt Nixon was a great President,” Fazlin, a dapper 58, told me. “He opened relations with China, and that’s what kept inflation down. He had a really good command of the world.”

So perhaps it’s surprising to see “Obama for President” signs outside the Poynter-Fazlin mansion and learn that Fazlin, joining long lines of early-voting Florida residents, has already cast his ballot for the Democratic candidate after twice voting for Bush.

But I’m not surprised. Lifelong Republicans turning to Obama has been one of the themes I’ve picked up in this campaign, ever since, back in January, I ran into Bryant Jones, an Idaho-raised Republican who’d volunteered for Obama in South Carolina.

For Jones, it was disenchantment with “my-way-or-the-highway politics and the same old faces.” For Fazlin, the Republican Party has “forgotten itself.”

That phrase resonated. This election has also been about the ideological exhaustion of a party. What was John McCain’s vice-presidential pick but a Hail Sarah pass reflecting the desperation of a Republican trying to succeed Bush?

Fazlin’s Republican Party, he told me over lunch, “was for less government and it was fiscally conservative. But look at the spending under Bush. We are trillions in debt. My granddaughter will pay for that.”

His Republican Party believed in a link between hard work and reward rather than between securitized toxic mortgage loans and instant fortunes. His Republican Party believed in transactions based on reality. “I had to jump through hoops for my first mortgage,” Fazlin said.

The party’s cultural shift also troubles him. In the party he joined, the Christian Right was insignificant. He sees a link between its rise and “an attitude toward Muslims that I really don’t like. Muslim cannot mean terrorist, but some of the emails I get suggest Republicans don’t see the difference.”

A Muslim himself, Fazlin was pleased to hear another Republican-to-Obama convert, Gen. Colin Powell, say: “Is there something wrong with some 7-year-old Muslim-American kid believing he or she could be president?”

American openness allowed Fazlin to make his way. He worked for Zenith in Chicago, then Control Data in Minneapolis, where he came up with “a process to change the surface energy of Teflon.”

I associate Teflon with easy-to-flip eggs, but apparently I missed something, which is probably why I’m a hack and he’s rich.

Fazlin’s breakthrough was important for circuit boards of high-speed computers. He moved on to plasma technology, founding Advanced Plasma in St. Petersburg in 1980.

Nineteen years later, he sold the company “for a few bucks,” enough to buy the Poynter estate. It was here that his far-flung family (from Pakistan, Canada and Australia) gathered for his birthday in June — and gave him the decisive prod into the Obama camp.

They asked: What’s happened to America? Why is it so heavy-handed? Why won’t it sit down, eyeball to eyeball, with its enemies and try to work things out? Fazlin considered those good questions.

He switched allegiance, helping to organize a fundraiser for Obama in Orlando. There, he met Obama and liked “the way he looked me in the eye, the way he wasn’t on a pedestal, but one of us.” He also liked Obama’s efficiency (and believes it could save the government money). They talked politics and Pakistani cuisine.

The Fazlin conversion is significant. Among Republicans flipping to Obama I’ve detected three core feelings: we have to do something different; we cannot be the party of fiscal irresponsibility; we cannot be the angry party of an “America-first” jingoism that alienates the world.

There’s something more, something unspoken. Reagan’s line was, “It’s morning again in America.” Bush has been about American dusk. Republicans are hard-headed but not to the point they want hope banished from the national vocabulary.

Enter Obama.

In Miami, I found more of the Fazlin phenomenon. Andy Gomez, an assistant professor at the University of Miami and a Cuban-American, told me his immediate family is made up of five registered Republicans and one Democrat.

Of that heavily Republican band, five, including Gomez himself, are voting Obama.

“Cuba’s not the issue,” he said. “It’s education, health care, the economy.”

Florida’s still a toss-up, but there’s Obama movement.

As Fazlin swept his Mercedes up the drive, I suggested the colonnaded mansion with its cascading bougainvillea was a Spanish colonial.

“What? I just think of it as Fazal style,” he said.

This is a great country. Hispano-Pakistani is fine. The past is prelude. Only the future counts. It looms tomorrow."

Good read. Everybody let us know when you vote!!

I'm voting after work at 2. I also get to be on call back if any of the people at the Obama riot get to rowdy. Another reason to hate that guy.

I voted this morning at around 10:30am. It wasn't very crowded inside, but it was hellish to find a place to park. So I have now done my civic duty and have not let the Suffragettes down.

I voted at 2. Long lines. 4 times the number voters so far today

I voted at 1pm. No long lines, but I live in a small town.

I was told yesterday by a woman who is in local politics that you guys get collected off the street & payed to go & vote. How true is that?

Only in Chicago

http://www.270towin.com/

This is a fun site to visit; lets you see what is going on.

Cool!!! Obama riots means people are voting which means we wont be ripped off by like we did the last 2 elections with the wrong person ending up in the white house

Damn, all these years I could have been getting paid; how did I miss this little trick.

No, I've never heard of it in modern times. Back in the day the political machines had ways of making you vote, yes some people got paid, some got jobs, some were intimidated. It wasn't that you were paid to vote, it was you were paid (in various ways) to vote for a certain party. We used to have a political machine second only to the Chicago and NYC machines, but it has since faded away. Can't give away jobs anymore, now you have to take a test and be on the list. Now with open govenment, everyone will know if there is monkey business going on - noone can keep a secret anymore.

But, really why wasn't I around for this good stuff, LOL.

I didn't get paid I also didn't vote to put our country in the toilet.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/11/black-panthers.html More Obama supporters I'm betting the Obama riot is going to get rowdy tonight

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/04/man-asked-to-leave-philly-polling-place/ Gotta love the Obamanots.

At least all this profiling will be over once the election is over as no one will be voting for either party and we will have a new president be it obama or mccain

Thanks. I think theres a local election coming & she was trying to sell herself. I told her I dont vote because they're all full of crap, & as Australia is a free country it should be by choice we vote not because we have to etc etc. She asked if I just except the fine. I lied & said yep didnt tell her Im not on the roll. I then got serving another customer & she yelled out to me she'll be back to win me over. I gave her the finger in my mind. Ill have her charged with stalking if she does.

Now that you all voted , you can settle down to a special drink with your candidates name
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/11/3/185231/245?source=daily

If it weren't so icky outside, I'd go to Starbucks and get my free cup of coffee for voting.

its beautiful here but I don't want Starbucks

I would have to drive 60 miles to go to Starbucks. So I will stay here. Hey aren't black Panthers CATS? I thought you loved cats AMY

Not all black ones. Harley is half and half.

So are you tazer qualified?

I know some little old ladies who would take that stick away from him and beat him with it.

They'd have to catch me first.

No

Have one of the guys or gals show you how to administer a kick to the perennial nerve in the thigh. It's a killer. When you get kicked there you will think that your leg is broke. Works like a charm.

I know that one. I just am not legal for the tazer as I'm a dispatcher. My weapon is my mouth.

I voted early. I didn't get a sticker... I'm bummed.

Obama won Ohio and Penn

You know, if Obama is elected all the kids that got lots of candy on Halloween will have to redistribute it and give it to all the kids that sat at home watching TV.

Yeah, it's pretty much over. If Obama can get the 55 electoral votes from California and the 27 from Florida, it's all done.

Yes we can?

Rejoice, It's 1932

I can say that I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this. There were actually crowds of people running down the street shouting and cheering when the news networks projected that Obama would be the next president. It makes me feel so much better to know that people still care, especially the young people who will mature to be the leaders of the future.

Even though I disagree with McCain's policies, I do think he is a man of character and integrity. And after watching his speech, I couldn't help feeling a bit sorry for him. Now it's Obama's turn, and I do hope that he can actually do what he says he can do for our country.

Obama is the future -looking at the people at McCain's speech all white, a mixture at Grant park. That is what we want. McCain's speech was very good-he is just like me older-we need new young people. Like Kennedy was.

Not that I vote but I look forward to the day that a black woman becomes leader. But not Oprah, dont much care for her.

RT: I wonder how long Obama will remain with us on this plain?

Ann, did you notice how McCain's crew booed at the mention of Obama's name but Obama's crowd didn't boo when he mentioned McCain's name?

There goes the neighorhood I mean country

You'll get over it. Just like we did four years ago. And eight.

It'll be okay. He can't be any worse than what we have now. BTW I didn't vote for Bush either time.

He has a chance. All the Dems do. Lets hope it isn't wasted.

I guess I voted for a Democrat. I voted for Pat Rodgers for judge not knowing his party. He won and he's a Democrat.

If only you had cast your ballot with a touchscreen, then your vote would have had a better chance to be dropped or changed parties.

Or charged particles.

I know election is over but a buddy just sent this to me and it is cute.

Ann that is terrific!

Looks like you will be getting a new Sen. What you think about Andrew Como? I have heard him and a few others in the lineup.

I heard that Andrew does not want it. He has two small daughters and they are pretty settled in. Their mother, Kerry Kennedy, had an affair while they were living in NYC and left the family. He's taken on the primary raising of the girls; and he's a very busy Attorney General. He's doing a great job. But, I think he would make a great Senator.

Our other contenders don't seem as qualified, but maybe the Governor will pick someone from the West, from Buffalo or another woman, there are many to choose from.

I'm unemployed

I nominate gweeptish

I accept

Go for it!

I nominate too, can we get his name to Gov. Paterson in time for him to make the decision?

I just got a thank you note from Barack and Michelle, you know the Obamas. They wanted to thank me for helping them get where they got. Did anyone else get a note?

I got one election night.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1320907,CST-NWS-rally09.article
Obama promised to pay this bill before his party. He's now stiffing the Chicago taxpayers. What a man to be proud of.

All I have to say

Bring sexy back and bankrupt Chicago.

Don't worry We can bail them out with everyone else

I don't think Chicago should be bailed out. I just think people who say they are going to pay for something should.

You should know by now what politicians say and what they do are two separate things from the previous 8 years of b.s.

I thought all of you voted for change. Just another Illinois politician to add to the list of corrupt politicians.

Oh and I told you all so

Obama has not done anything!!

Exactly he hasn't paid a bill he promised to pay. What a good do-nothing!

Better than Bush!!

Illinois has a long legacy of public corruption Where is Obama from?

He technically is not in office yet as I don't remember seeing the change of power on tv so he still has time unless bush declares martial law

Never said Bush was any good either. What happened to if you don't vote you can't complain? I voted so I get the right to complain. Have him pay his bills and I MAY shut up.

Doesn't need to be in office to pay a bill.

you wont shut up as you have been nit picking on him since he was elected so dont make political promises

I said MAY. I didn't say I WOULD

and I've been nit-picking him well before he was elected

Well all Chicago needs to do is take their signed contract with Obama to Judge Judy's court and viola , that is that

Judge Judy only does small claims. This isn't a small claim

They have to start somewhere They can bump it up to the supreme court after judge judy

I told you all to vote for Zappa...

I voted for Kinky Friedman.

Speaking of Zappa I will send you a PM

Anyone else going to watch the Inauguration on Jan 20th?

Nope.

So the Obama Administration isn't starting out very well.

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Sunday, January 4, 2009 -- 1:54 PM ET
-----

Richardson Said to Withdraw as Commerce Secretary Nominee

Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico has withdrawn his name as
the commerce secretary nominee because of an investigation
and President-elect Barack Obama has accepted, NBC News and
The Associated Press reported. According to The A.P., a
federal grand jury is investigating how a California company
that contributed to Mr. Richardson's political activities won
a lucrative New Mexico state contract.

Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com/?emc=na

This looks like a fun party to go to:

http://www.declareyourself.com/about_us/events.html

Today we get a new President. I am ready for change. Lets hope that it is good for all of us.

Has the world come to an end?
Has civilization ended?

Whether we agree with our presidents or not we need to pray for them and to pray that they make wise and good decisions. And we also need to realise that there is no president or government official or government mandate that will actually change our lives. If you want a positive change in your life you are the only one who can do it. No change in presidency has EVER resulted in someone's life being changed for the best or the worst.

So lets just sit back and see what happens.

I saw quite a change with certain presidents in power wesley so I have to disagree with you on this one. I remember talking about some of them taking away our rights and privacy all for our protection until it was too late