Comments on: emptywheel’s Quickie Analysis

By: HowlnAround

HowlnAround — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 03:44:07 +0000

EW, and others,

“(Four years later and I still sound like goddamned Howard Dean, bless his soul.)”

He looked like the cat that just ate the canary, all lean in his button down style. Makes you want to get out his speech about the pickup truck with the dixie flag in the window. Just listen for the back beat.

By: klynn

klynn — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:27:40 +0000

BTW, I still cannot access the site with the county breakdowns. I get a failure notice. Anyone get Warren County, Iowa stats?

By: Leen

Leen — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:55:53 +0000

John Edwards not taking Pac Money. Hillary is Pac Woman and the rest of the candidates are all Pac Men!

Hello New Hampshire John Edwards not taking Pac Money. This is huge!

By: CasualObserver

CasualObserver — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:04:39 +0000

I make that 8%. But that would be of total population, which isn’t appropriate. Still interested to know what % of caucus-potential pop. showed up to caucus.

the reason I ask stems from commentary last night about the breathtakingly huge turnout.

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:27:11 +0000

Yup–that’s one of the reasons I highlighted that above. Obama succeeded (without Emily’s List’s Help, apparently) in doing what political groups have been trying to do for some time.

By: Redshift

Redshift — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:00:33 +0000

I would also point out that there’s been a lot of talk over the past couple of years that if we could get single women out to vote, it would be really good for progressives and Democrats. The Iowa breakdown doesn’t tell that specifically, but the high female turnout and Obama’s strength with younger women is a strong suggestion that he’s done well on that goal.

By: cognitorex

cognitorex — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:52:34 +0000

Your analysis that each and every Dem aspirant received at least 50% more votes than Huckabee is an enormous story.
Money is going to flow to Dem coffers probably at the rate of five to one. The consequences for Congressional races are huge.
I suspect that the reason the MSM is not ballyhooing this voter disparity story is because they know that if they get behind the story and really trumpet it’s likely effects those effects will increase geometrically from the added publicity.
If the same trend repeats itself in NH with no corresponding organized evangelical vote as in IOWA the stats may favor the Dems even more.
Some days are better than others. (Psst, tell the Press.)

By: BooRadley

BooRadley — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:34:39 +0000

Hmmm January 3rd, 2008 at 9:22 pm
144

I’m sure this is hopelessly EPU’d by now, but I think Klynn may well have a point — IF the telcos were not merely serving as data conduits, but also hoovering-up recordings of all data transmissions (as many people suspect), and later deleted said recordings. Further, if telco immunity kills this class of suits, then it also prevents all discovery in this area, where assertion of the state-secret privilege (the fave ploy to date) is likely to carry less weight.

By: klynn

klynn — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:49:18 +0000

LHP

Keep following those breadcrumbs. Did you read Hmmm’s comment at 144 in the What Did Helgerson Do With The Torture Tapes?

(Sorry I did not link. I have had big problems with getting the link to function since the new site came online.)

By: Rayne

Rayne — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:39:29 +0000

Population of Iowa is 2.9 million. Meant to point that out before I got called away.

236,000 is a pretty big chunk.