Comments on: Obama Huckabee Win– SD 25 Race Close

By: DantheMan

DantheMan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:10:02 +0000

Obama vs. Huckabee…. has a nice ring to it. At least it would be a spirited and articulate series of debates, unlike what we got with Kerry v. Bush or Gore v. Bush.

By: donn

donn — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:44:07 +0000

Ross - yup, 5th. You can participate in the (god I hate saying this) Facebook co-sponsored debate if you come in 4th in Iowa, or have polled at 5% in a national poll. Since he didn’t come in 4th, and the most a national poll has had him at is 4%, he wouldn’t have been able to participate in the debate. Or he could’ve debated Kucinich and Gravel across the street.

By: Kollege Kid

Kollege Kid — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:30:03 +0000

Ok, back to the subject at hand…

YAH OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Archer Dem

Archer Dem — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:29:36 +0000

This was just the second day back to classes for St. Olaf and Carleton, plus many of the active students were likely to be gone to Iowa for the caucuses. It was carefully chosen to minimize youth turnout from those two colleges, especially after they contributed in large part to Cox’s defeat in 2006.

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:06:42 +0000

Well John-
to name a few, putting down Native American Voter turnout, Supressing young voter turnout, sending out wrong information to voters, and not registering some voters, thats just a few, she lost get over it, name the mistakes Ritchie made aside from the email list. Do you have any? You put up or shut up, I put up.
I am saddened by Biden as well, actually I believe he got 5th behind Richardson.
Oh and John, Pawlenty tried, and he did try, to disenfranchise young voters by scheduleing the election on Jan. 3rd, right in the middle of Winter break for the college students, reliably Democratic, of St. Olaf and Carelton Colleges who reliably vote democrat and sent Rep. David Bly to the State House in 2006. Yet thanks to a great organization of the DFL and College Democrats we fixed these problems that pawlenty created and tried to disenfranchise young voters. now we have a veto-proof majority in the state senate.

By: donn

donn — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:56:21 +0000

I am very saddened that Joe Biden dropped out. Even if he hadn’t, he wouldn’t have been invited to the next debate thanks to the 4th in Iowa/5% rule. I’m still going to write his name in on the primary ballot come February 5th, and will vote for whomever the nominee is come the generals unless it’s John Edwards (not a big deal because Illinois traditionally is won handily by the Democrat nominee).

By: Johan

Johan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:50:28 +0000

Don’t bother with the sniping from these guys - the DFL picked this seat up by 1300!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:49:03 +0000

I am tired of hearing all the pundits on CNN talk about the results in Iowa. What I really want to hear is the reaction from Big Kahuna. As we all know, Big Kahuna is the prognosticator of prognosticators. The Nostradamus of MN Publius.

I want to hear some specifics on how Senator Clinton comes back. Please help me Big Kahuna.

A curious and naive liberal,

Chris

By: john

john — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:46:59 +0000

how did he try to do that exactly? archer?

By: Archer Dem

Archer Dem — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:43:34 +0000

Holy Crap, huge win for Dahle. His margin of victory was triple what I calculated it was going to be based on turnout. Congratulations to the College Dems at St. Olaf and Carleton for an amazing job showing Pawlenty that it isn’t so easy to disenfranchise young voters!