Author: BooMan

Ahem, No We’re Not

This struck my funny bone: Down the hall, in the school cafeteria, Republicans from the 8th precinct were preparing to take their own straw vote. “We’re for Mitt Romney, said Stan Wilcox. “Ahem, no we’re not,” said his wife...

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Where I Engage in Rank Punditry

One of the benefits of not having a dog in the presidential primaries is that I can sit back and do punditry without worrying much about whether it will affect the outcome (not that it would, in any case). I’ve seen a few...

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New Predictions

Yesterday I predicted that Mike Huckabee, quite comfortably, and John Edwards, in an essential tie with Obama, would win the Iowa caucuses. I revised that prediction this morning when I saw that Biden and Richardson were going...

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Obama and Huckabee Win Iowa Caucuses

Obama and Huckabee have won the Iowa Caucuses. Here are the current results: Senator Barack Obama : 37.12% Senator John Edwards : 30.02% Senator Hillary Clinton : 29.62% Governor Bill Richardson : 2.13% Senator Joe Biden : 0.95%...

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Iowa Caucus Thread

In 2000 and 2004 I watched caucus coverage on C-SPAN and they picked a random caucus to focus on all night. I anticipate that they’ll do the same thing tonight. Update [2008-1-3 20:42:35 by BooMan]: My sources on the...

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