Jackie Broyles and Dunlap — the Red State Update boys — analyze the Iowa results. Jackie’s in a good mood because “Hillary Clinton lost” and Dunlap says Huckabee better enjoy himself while he can.
Jackie: “Them Iowans like all that Jesus talk but they ain’t gonna wanna hear none of that as soon as he gets to New Hampshire.”
In his post-Iowa caucus speech, John Edwards stays on message, bashing insurance companies, “corporate greed,” overpaid CEOs, oil companies and the Washington establishment. Oh yeah, his grandparents and his father worked in a mill.
Speaking to her supporters after a third place finish in the Iowa caucus, Hillary Clinton puts her best spin forward: She’s the experienced candidate, she’s the Democratic candidate who can win in November, she’s the change candidate, she’s in it for the long haul, etc. etc.
Sound Bite: “We have always planned to run a national campaign all the way through the early contests.”
With only hours to go before the Iowa caucus begins, Barack and Michelle Obama work the lunchtime crowd at a mall food court in Des Moines.
After all the rallies, all the townhall meetings, all the debates, all the advertising, all the canvassing, all the telephone calls, all the local and national media coverage, all the focus on this first test for the candidates, why is there such a low voter turnout in the great state of Iowa? Just askin’.
In a sign that the apocalypse is near, throngs of media folk jam a Des Moines barbershop as Mike Huckabee gets a little taken off the top of his thinning dome.
Barack Obama speechifies and preachifies about “hope” in Davenport, Iowa.
Sound Bite: “Hope is not blind optimism. Hope is not ignorance of the difficulties of the tasks ahead or the hurdles that stand in your way. It’s just the opposite.”
In her two-minute message to Iowa voters on the eve of the caucus, Hillary Clinton says things are bad all over — really, really bad. But don’t despair Hawkeyes, she’s “ready to start solving the big challenges we face on day one.”
Sound Bite: “Put on your coats and call up a friend and help me change America.”
