Iowa
Boy, were my predictions hopes wrong. I actually figured it would be Huckabee then McCain.
I was completely wrong on the Democrat primary. I thought (snark aside) that it would be Clinton, Edwards, Obama.
My thoughts? I hope Iowa isn’t indicative of the rest of the country (though they have a history of predicting eventual winners). Big government liberal v. big government Evangelical liberal doesn’t exactly give me hope. Huckabee is good on guns, though. And Obama is horrid on guns.
The good news is that Iowans voted for not quite the worst candidates. I mean, it could have been Romney and Clinton. Or Giuliani and Clinton. I guess there’s that to be thankful for.
And this time I didn’t make any serious predictions. Usually, in these political contests, I make beer bets. I’m 100% on my bets for political races (I lost one beer to an American Idol prediction) but this year, I could not get a feel for it. Still can’t.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I can’t see how Edwards would be less bad than Clinton.
That page on wiki gives me hope for Thompson, thanks!
January 4th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Don’t we have a beer bet out there?
January 4th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Do we? I forget. I’m sure the bet wasn’t ‘obama can’t win iowa’.
January 4th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
No, its that he would win the nomination and the presidency…I’m one step closer to the first one…though I wish you had taken my bet on Fred Thompson being President.
January 4th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Aha. Your search-fu is better than mine.
I still stand by that bet. Double or nothing, even.