{"id":197938,"date":"2007-12-31T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/31\/my-predictions-on-iowa\/"},"modified":"2007-12-31T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T22:33:00","slug":"my-predictions-on-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/31\/my-predictions-on-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"My Predictions On Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Huckabee<\/li>\n<li>Romney<\/li>\n<li>Everyone else<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I think that Huckabee and Romney are the only two who will break the double digits, and Huckabee&#8217;s supporters are more than enthusiastic.  What the heck are the Romney supporters going for anyway, that hair?<\/p>\n<p>Democrats<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Edwards<\/li>\n<li>Clinton<\/li>\n<li>Obama<\/li>\n<li>Dodd<\/li>\n<li>Everyone else.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;m much less sure of these, but here goes:<\/p>\n<p>Edwards and Clinton will be very close, with the fact that Edwards is the 2nd choice of almost all the minor candidates giving him more than a boost than Hillary&#8217;s supporters being more politically tied in.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Edwards has spent  the past 3 years building a network will help too.<\/p>\n<p>Obama will come in firmly in 3rd.  He&#8217;s gots &#8220;lots of young new voters&#8221;, all of whom will get <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">completly owned in the complex Iowa Democratic Caucus Structure<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Dodd, with his filibuster in the senate floor, will, I think, end up a firm 4th place, though there is a possibility of him taking 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>Given my record, I think trhat I&#8217;m something like 0 for 23 on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">everything<\/span>, not just politics, I&#8217;d love to hear your predictions.<\/p>\n<p>Add more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans: Huckabee Romney Everyone else I think that Huckabee and Romney are the only two who will break the double digits, and Huckabee&#8217;s supporters are more than enthusiastic. What the heck are the Romney supporters going for anyway, that hair? Democrats Edwards Clinton Obama Dodd Everyone else. I&#8217;m much less sure of these, but here &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}