Iowa The Day After - Goppers

Huckabee and Romney were a pretty easy guess yesterday. And I thought McCain was a gimmee pick as well. Who the hell are these people that voted for Thompson? The man has said nothing. The man all but slept through the debates. Yet 13% of the people still voted for him. It proves that there are a group of people who aren't paying attention any more than what they hear on the Tonight Show and 3 minute blurbs on the nightly news.

Rudy, who ignored Iowa* was only able to beat Duncan Hunter. Ron Paul doubled Rudy's vote total. Rudy is toast.

According to NPR this morning, 112,000 people voted in the GOP caucuses. That is up from 87,000 in 2000, the last contested GOP primary.


*Or pretended to ignore Iowa. Another item on NPR this morning said that Rudy spent a fair amount of money and had a lot of operatives on the ground.