Barack won Iowa, and now Hillary has won New Hampshire.
Good. I'm fed up with this idiotic system which determines who my party's nominee is long before any big states get to vote. All due respect to Iowa and New Hampshire voters, but there aren't a lot of them, not a lot of them come out to vote in caucuses or primaries (although there was record turnout for Democrats in both places this year), and they're too white. I want a contest between good candidates, not a coronation after two events. Make no mistake, had Obama won tonight, that's what the media spin would have been. It might even have been true (although we saw from tonight's results that the polls coming into the voting booths were very very wrong).
Now we see what happens in Nevada on January 19 (the Republicans also hold their SC primary that day) and in South Carolina on January 26 before heading into Super Tuesday on February 5, when 24 states hold primaries or caucuses. CNN has a good map and calendar here.
Posted by Linkmeister at January 9, 2008 12:01 AM | TrackBack