What PROPAGANDA, especially considering that the indies in Iowa broke for Obama!
Michael McDonald, an election analyst with the Brookings Institution:.
"If turnout analysis shoes independents were showing up to vote for Democrats], we may think then that McCain will be at a disadvantage in New Hampshire, [because he is depending on unaffiliated voters to buoy his campaign]."
But the Globe is not BIASED or anything!!!
Read the coverage for yourselves!
As Ron Paul will get single digits, mark my words!
Watch how they are treating him, readers!
"It's Huckabee, Obama; Caucus-goers pass over fund-rich, familiar figures" by Susan Milligan and Scott Helman, Globe Staff | January 4, 2008
DES MOINES - Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and former governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, two political sensations delivering messages of change and conciliation, captured the first victories of the 2008 presidential campaign yesterday, winning their parties' Iowa caucuses decisively after hard-fought, wide-open contests.
Iowa's voters, despite being wooed by well-funded political veterans in both parties, in the end favored the candidates whom polls indicated they simply liked better.
We are just idiots out here! Who do ya' like, 'Murka?
Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, who had staked their candidacies on a strong Iowa showing, dropped out of the race after failing to break through.
Once again, web rewrites and censorship:
Huckabee, presenting a populist message and a folksy style, pulled together a coalition of evangelical Christians and home-schooling advocates to beat Mitt Romney, despite the former Massachusetts huge cash advantage, superior organization, and a negative ad campaign. The loss to Huckabee, a Baptist minister, represents a major blow to Romney, whose planned path to the Republican nomination always began in Iowa. Romney had spent much of the past three years courting voters in Iowa, building a massive organization, and positioning himself as the electable conservative.
Now back to the web:
Though Romney remains a top-tier candidate in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, yesterday's second-place finish puts him in a perilous position in the days ahead. Senator John McCain, who won the 2000 primary in New Hampshire, is resurgent in the Granite State polls, and Romney must now face him without the momentum he sought from Iowa.
Back to the censored cut:
Huckabee faces a tougher fight in New Hampshire, where there are few evangelical Christians. But the Arkansas lawmaker, pointing to polls suggesting he is performing well in states like South Carolina and Georgia, hopes to use Iowa to build a national groundswell of support.
And no Ron Paul, right, Globe?
The Iowa caucuses, which were expected to draw record number of participants (it was lower for the Republicans?), capped a year of aggessive campaigning in the state by more than a dozen presidential candidates. The results are expected to end the candidacies of some White House hopefuls while setting the survivors up for a series of showdowns this month, first in New Hampshire and later in Nevada, South Carolina, Michigan, and Florida.
Former senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee, whose low-key campaign in Iowa baffled supporters who hoped he would emerge as a consensus candidate for fiscal and social conservatives, fced the possibilty of an early exit. Thompson initially suggested he needed to place second in Iowa to continue, but he backed off that assertion yesterday before the caucus began.
And, coincidentally, he takes third! Pffffftttt!
The apparent close races in Iowa pitted more established or better funded candidates against political upstarts whom polls suggested voters simply liked better.
Among Democrats, the race has long been a three-way battle among Clinton, the more experienced top-tier candidate; Obama, the newcomer to national politics with a unifying message; and Edwards, the second-place finisher in the 2004 caucuses who retained a loyal well of support in Iowa. Before the voting that led to Obama's win, questions hung in the air. Was Clinton able to attract all those first-time women caucus-goers whom she had been courting?
Iola Schreiber, an 80-year-old retired secretary from Indianola who could not remember the last time she caucused:
"I'm caucusing for Hillary. I think she can get things done."
Was Obama able to draw the legions of young people, independents, and Republicans whom he has targeted?
Ron Wittenwyler, a 60-year-old Des Moines actuary who tends to vote Republican:
"I see him as being the person we need."
Yeah, he wouldn't vote for Ron Paul. Apparently, no one did!
And was Edwards able to pull in a strong contingent of union members and working-class voters receptive to his populist message?
Sheila Grady, 48, a registered nurse from Des Moines:
"He's for the little guy."
On the Republican side, Romney held a wide lead in most polls for the majority of the year. Relying on a strong ground campaign, millions of dollars in TV ads, and a network of veteran political advisers, Romney sought to convince voters that he was the more experienced and reliably conservative contender.
When Huckabee's once-dismal poll numbers began to rise in Iowa, Romney went on the attack, accusing Huckabee in a barrage of TV spots of granting more than 1,000 pardons and advocating tuition assistance for children of illehgal immigrants. Both of those issues are important to Iowa's GOP voters.
Huckabee, with a conservative-populist message laced with self-deprecating humor, won voters over with a promise to reform the Republican Party and help middle- and lower-income people raise their stations in life. Frequently pledging to be the president of "Main Street, not Wall Street or K Street," he underscored his own humble upbringing in Hope, Ark.
We don't need another president from Hope! One is enough!
That message clearly resonated with GOP voters. In the Des Moines Register poll, respondents picked Huckabee over Romney, 35 percent to 19 percent, when asked which candidate "matches my own core principles."
Unable financially to fight back, ad for ad, against Romney's attacks, Huckabee professed to take the high road, saying he would maintain a positive message and prove that money can't buy an American election.
Gary Walter, a voter in Indianola:
"That's part of my motivation [for supporting Huckabee]. You see someone else who has so much money. How do you compete? It's not fair."
Damn right it ain't fair.
Look at Ron Paul, and the MSM coverage of him!
And I am sick of rewriting MSM press reports, readers!
"Political history a warning for early-season winners" by Peter S. Canellos, Globe Staff | January 4, 2008
DES MOINES - Now comes the hard part for Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee, the insurgents who last night took center stage in their parties' presidential races, but who will now face the daunting scrutiny of the political and media world, with many of their own parties' leaders arrayed against them.
The triumphs of Obama, a freshman senator who four years ago was serving in the Illinois legislature, and Huckabee, the little-known former governor of Arkansas, were dazzling and even historic in their own ways: Each struck a rich vein of anti-Washington feeling in Iowa and withstood strong challenges from far more famous opponents.
For Huckabee, who lacks the campaign funds of Obama, the battle in New Hampshire and beyond is even more challenging. The GOP has never in recent history chosen a presidential nominee with a national profile as low as Huckabee's; in recent Republican contests, the establishment favorite has always prevailed.
And the establishment is clearly arrayed against Huckabee, whose past support of tax increases and criticism of Bush's foreign policy have made him anathema to economic- and defense-oriented conservatives.
Luckily for Huckabee, the GOP establishment is more split than usual this election, with insiders backing both former governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Senator John McCain of Arizona. In New Hampshire, McCain and Romney will square off against each other, with Huckabee expected to place no better than third. Wounded by his distant second-place finish in Iowa, where he invested time and resources, Romney will be fighting for his political life in the Granite State.
Quite possibly, only one of the establishment favorites will survive to compete against Huckabee in Michigan, on Jan. 15, and South Carolina, on Jan. 19.
If Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister, can't win in South Carolina, with its large evangelical population, his Iowa win will look like an odd footnote to the rise of another candidate as the new GOP nominee."
Then the Romney-bashing starts:
"Edged aside, Romney points to road forward"
"Upheavals leave Huckabee exultant, competitors scrambling; Romney must regain footing in early states" by Charlie Savage and Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | January 4, 2008
DES MOINES - Mike Huckabee's resounding win in last night's Iowa caucuses instantly reshaped the race for the Republican nomination for president, transforming the former Arkansas governor into a legitimate contender ahead of Tuesday's New Hampshire primary.
The Iowa results left Mitt Romney needing to scramble to find a way to restore momentum to his campaign.
Huckabee, whose passionate following by evangelical Christians propelled him to the top of Iowa polls, outpaced the better-funded campaign of Romney, the one-time front-runnerwho barraged Huckabee with negative ads in the closing week.
Romney was on a path toward a second-place finish, with three other candidates locked in battle over who would win third-place bragging rights. Early results showed former senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee, John McCain of Arizona, and Representative Ron Paul of Texas bunched in the next tier.
The unexpected twists of the Iowa contest -- including the abrupt rise of the relatively unknown Huckabee and a late revival by Mccain, who has also surged back into second place in New Hampshire polls -- left GOP candidates scrambling to figure out their next moves.
Huckabee, at a noon rally in a veterans' hall in Grinnell yesterday, told a crowd of several hundred supporters:
"[My probable strong showing will be] a seismic shift [in the political world because I have been outspent] 20 to 1 [by Romney]. We don't have to finish first here in order to feel like we're succesful, but... if we are unable to win, it is an incredible testament of the revival of the American political system and the fact that when it gets down to it, individual votes still matter and money can't buy elections."
Despite his popularity in Iowa, Huckabee faces a less sympathetic audience in New Hampshire, where the GOP electorate is driven more by fiscal conservatism than social issues.
Supporter Dennis Crawford said yesterday he hoped New Hampshire primary-goers would take a second look at Huckabee following the caucuses:
"The more people listen to Huckabee, the more they like him, so [the caucus results] will say to the people of New Hampshire that hey, this guy is not a fluke."
But Romney also faces a new threat from McCain. The Arizona lawmaker whose campaign appeared to be on life support last summer, has pulled within striking distance of besting Romney in New Hampshire - a potentially devastating blow in Romney's backyard. McCain supporters hope a respectable showing in Iowa could give him more help in the Granite State.
Funny how things work out, huh, readers?
McCain made a rare tip to Iowa the day before the caucuses in the hope of rallying enough supporters to pull off a third place upset.
Rigged elections! Drops in for a day, then places fourth?
Supporters of Paul, a libertarian leaning antiwar conservative, were hoping for a double-digit finish by the congressman to prove his relevance in the face of a decision by Fox News not to invite him to participate in the New Hampshire debate.
Well, now that he finished fifth behind Freddy, they can exclude him.
Pretty CONVENIENT, huh?
See the SHOW called "NEWS," 'Murkns?
Spokesman John Zambenini said Wednesday that Paul's volunteers were "fervently working to get our supporters to the caucuses tonight."
Apparently, the enthusiasm doesn't cut it in RIGGED ELECTIONS!
The flurry of attention to the other candidates left former mayor Rudy Giuliani of New York, who lagged far behind in polls in Iowa and finished far behind in sixth, out in the cold. With his pro-abortion rights stance, Giuliani has had trouble winning voters in the earliest primary states, and largely abandoned campaigning in Iowa in the hope that he will instead score big in Florida at the end of the month.
Analysts said Giuliani could benefit from upsets and upheavals in both Iowa and New Hampshire - any scenario that would keep the race open enough for him to make a comeback later this month.
Yup, see how the Zionist controllers set up the scenario?
In the end, it will be Hitlery vs. Heir Rudy, watch!
If Giuliani wins Florida and does well in Michigan, which will also hold a January primary, his campaign believes he can seal the nomination on Feb. 5, when voters in New York, New Jersey, and California -- locales with more moderate GOP voters -- go to the polls.
Giuliani told reporters yesterday after meeting voters at a Segway factory in Bedford, N.H.:
"We're sitting in a pretty good position. We think whatever emerges from Iowa and New Hampshire, there'll be a lot of possibilities. The deck is going to get shuffled and there'll be a lot of possibilities."
Pffft!
This is what the web added:
The Thompson and Paul camps, meanwhile, weren't eager to talk last night.
Darrel Ng, a Thompson spokesman, wrote via e-mail:
"We aren't saying anything until all the votes are counted."
Paul's Iowa spokesman also declined to comment on the fifth-place finish, referring calls to a national spokesman who did not answer his cellphone. Still, Paul's campaign has a life of its own. His unconventional mix of views has attracted a small but passionate following in New Hampshire, and he raised more money than any other candidate in the fourth quarter of 2007."
Yeah, thanks for the late praise, MSM assholes!!!
Why don't you start investigating things, rather than reading government-approved scripts?
You can start with the bogus presidential elections of 2000 and 2004!
Now the Globe's McCain push-prop (as opposed to push-poll that McCain is running):
"In N.H., campaign shifts to overdrive; Spotlight, rivals heat up contest" by Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | January 4, 2008
MANCHESTER, N.H. - As Romney campaigned in Iowa, he launched a new attack on McCain, his main rival in New Hampshire, unveiling a television ad featuring people praising the senator's military record but lambasting his actions in Congress on taxes and illegal immigration. The ad repeats charges that McCain opposed President Bush's tax cuts and that he favored "amnesty" for illegal immigrants.
McCain has said he never supported amnesty, but did back President Bush's plan to put illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship behind legal immigrants. McCain no longer supports such a plan.
That's from the paper that endorsed him!!
Reread this post when you are finished, readers, and look for the anti-Romney, pro-McCain BIAS!!!
If you read it closely, it is there!
Just the MSM PUSHING the AGENDA!!!!
McCain, after landing at the Manchester airport yesterday afternoon from Iowa, declared that "we will win" the primary. He was welcomed by the Republican leader of the state Senate, Ted Gatsas, who offered a late endorsement, saying he is convinced McCain is the candidate mot prepared to handle national security.
McCain aired a new television spot of his own, reminding voters of his victory here in 2000 and asked once again for their help.
McCain, appearing before a large American flag, said in the ad:
"The issues are tougher and the times more dangerous. I've learned a lot in eight years. And I feel better prepared than ever to lead this country."
No offense, readers, but the American flag now looks like a Reich swastika flag to me!
Meanwhile, in the phone call scandal involving Romney and his Mormonism, Attorney General Kelly Ayotte pointed to two firms: Western Wats, of Orem, Utah, that made the calls; and Moore-Information Inc., of Portland, Ore., that hired Western Wats. But Moore-Information has refused to name its client, and a court hearing is not set until Jan. 16.
The callers also made statements strongly supporting McCain, whose campaign immediately called for the investigation, suggesting the calls were designed to embarrass him.
By Buckahee's people, maybe?
The Granite State contest has shifted to a close battle between Romney and McCain.
But Giuliani told reporters while campaigning in Bedford:
"This is a different kind of election. We've never had 29 primary and caucuses in one month. . . . Something different is going to win this election. We hope it's our different strategy that wins it. And we're confident it will."
All of the candidates will be under an extraordinary time crunch. Instead of eight days between the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, as occurred in 2004, there are only five days this year.
Moreover, the candidates face crucial debates - back-to-back Republican and Democratic forums Saturday night on ABC, and another Republican one Sunday night on Fox News.
Controversy continued yesterday over the preliminary decisions by debate organizers about who will appear on stage. For example, Fox News said it planned to exclude Representative Ron Paul, the Texas Republican, even though Paul said he raised nearly $20 million in the last quarter of 2007.
Yeah, like Ron is a fly in the ointment!!
Well, the American people are certainly a fly in the Globalist's ointment!
ABC's Democratic debate might exclude Senators Joseph Biden of Delaware and Chris Dodd of Connecticut as well as Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio if they did not place high enough in Iowa.
Embarrassment solved!
Dodd and Biden quit, and Kucinch might as well have -- he threw his support to Obama!
How much you wanna bet it will be Ron Paul's last invite to a debate, too?
Let's turn back to the DemocraPs now:
"Win may give Obama burst of momentum; Hawkeye State result may have a domino effect" by Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff | January 4, 2008
DES MOINES - Last night's Iowa caucuses did not decide who will ultimately be the Democratic presidential nominee, but the shortened window before Tuesday's New Hampshire primary means that Barack Obama can expect a disproportionate boost, while Hillary Clinton and John Edwards will be burdened with grave worries.
Hillary Clinton, like Obama, has the money and national organization to stay in the race through Feb. 5, when almost half the states go to the polls, but the two senators still face the strong possibility that Iowa will create a domino effect. TV networks projected last night that Obama pulled out a close win, with Clinton and Edwards battling for second.
She will be even more of a concern given that it appeared last night that she came in third, and with all precincts reporting, Obama had 38 percent, Edwards 30 percent, and Clinton 29 percent.
Back to the web censorship, readers:
As the top three duked it out, there was what amounts to an entirely separate Democratic contest: for fourth place. Senators Joe Biden and Chris Dodd and Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico have all, in effect, acknowledged they needed to place at least fourth in Iowa to stay in the race.
Well, Bill got 3%, so BYE-BYE BILLY!
A tracking poll released earlier yesterday showed Richardson in fourth with 7 percent, Biden in fifth with 5 percent, and Dodd in sixth with 1 percent.
Their damn polls are never right!
The second group of candidates was hamstrung by state Democratic Party rules that require a candidate to have at least 15 percent support at a given precinct to win any delegates there. Supporters of candidates not reaching that threshold can then choose a second candidate.
But that also means that the backers of those nonviable candidates may have an outsized influence on who wins. In 2004, Dennis Kucinich asked his supporters to make Edwards their second choice, and that helped Edwards make a surprisingly strong second-place showing.
This week, Kucinich instructed his backers to support Obama in precincts where he won't win any delegates. The Richardson and Obama campaigns apparently made a similar deal yesterday. After the New York Times reported that there was an arrangement, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said it wasn't a formal arrangement, but that the two campaigns would coordinate in some precincts.
The Washington Post said the Biden campaign was also in similar talks with Obama, but Biden's campaign denied it. The reason such arrangements may appeal to some second-tier candidates is because they could gain, too.
Under the complicated Iowa Democratic Party rules, in some precincts the front-runner might have extra supporters that he or she doesn't need to win delegates, supporters the candidates can then steer to someone like Richardson.
Hours and even days before Iowans gathered at schools and churches for their caucuses, the campaigns were already trying to set expectations and spin results.
When Bill Clinton ran into reporters at a Starbucks in Iowa yesterday, he downplayed the importance of the early states, saying he didn't win in 1992 until later-voting Georgia:
"You just got to keep going. It is a long process."
Then why all the MSM focus?
And for days, Hillary Clinton backers have been pointing out that she didn't start out very well in Iowa polls a year ago, and Clinton, herself, claimed she was in "single digits."
But rivals soon made hay out of that remark, because no one could point to any 2007 poll in which she had been below 10 percent and for months polls had suggested that Clinton was leading or tied with Obama in Iowa.
Now WHY would the Globe want to CENSOR Hitlery's LYING, readers?!
WHAT LIARS the Clintons are!!!!!!
Back to the article in my paper:
Iowa was particularly important to Obama because it will help him win votes in New Hampshire from independents, said Stephen Ansolabehere, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Clinton is leading in most New Hampshire polls, and spokesman Doug Hattaway said she should do well because "a broader sample of people" participate in the primary compared with the caucuses, which he said are attended by "an activist core."
Ansolabehere argued that Iowa and New Hampshire are less crucial to Clinton because she is polling so well in bigger Feb. 5 states such as California and New York.
Oh, so the two Zio-candidates -- Hitlery and Heir Rudy -- have the SAME STRATEGY!!!
How much you wanna bet the "New Yawkers" face off in the general election, even though America is opposed to them!
And what about the fourth ticket out of Iowa?
Ansolabehere said it really didn't matter:
"They don't have the resources, they don't have the organization, they don't have the popular appeal. So I just don't see any of them being credible right now."
I don't see these elections as credible!
Here is what the paper added in place of the censored pieces:
Coming so far short of Obama, it's difficult to see how Edwards can raise the money he needs to compete seriously for the nomination, some analysts said. He is far behind Obama and Clinton in fund-raising and doesn't have a strong national organization.
Senators Joe Biden and Chris Dodd did so poorly that they abandoned their campaigns. Neither veteran senator's campaign ever caught fire, overshadowed by the better-financed campaigns of Obama and Clinton in particular.
Yeah, money means something on the DemocraPic side!
Pfffffffttttttt!
Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico did only a little better last night, but claimed success in a statement.:
"We made it to the final four. My staff and volunteers worked their hearts out to get us here. Now we are going to take the fight to New Hampshire."
Yeah, with 3 percent!
Get ready to be whooped by 50 points in the National Semi-Final, Billy-boy!
The leading candidates also all looked forward to New Hampshire. Clinton said the record turnout among Democrats showed that the country is ready for change and a Democratic president.
Clinton told cheering supporters:
"We're going to take this enthusiasm and go straight to New Hampshire. We've always planned to run a national campaign all the way through the early contests."
Edwards claimed second place, and said Iowa voters responded to his message of standing up against corporate greed and for the middle class:
"The status quo lost and change won. And now we move on. We move on from Iowa to New Hampshire."
And then you will step aside, right Johnny?
So why do I have to retype all this MSM shit, readers?
WTF?
