Thursday, January 3, 2008

Endorsements and a prediction

Salon.com asked some notable people who they favor on the Democratic side and Colorado Confidential has a endorsement scorecard to keep track of various papers and politicians.

Also, I've never done this before but just for fun, I'm going to take a guess at the Iowa caucus results. On the Democratic side, I'm going to predict Obama, Edwards and then Clinton. And in the Republican race, I'm going to go totally nuts and say it will be Huckabee, McCain, and Romney, since McCain is poised to benefit the most from the last-minute and stubborn rumor that Thompson is poised to drop out of the race.

7 comments:

sandy on signal said...

What about Ron Paul? I think he may place 3rd and ruin the dreams of both McCain and Thompson. The media is not giving Paul any attention but his followers are quite noticeable.



I see more Paul signs here than any other candidate. When we were in Florida, I saw Paul many signs and even a freeway blogger. He has raised lots of money and I think he may place in the Iowa primaries. My take for the GOP in win, place, show order: Huckabee, Romney and Paul

alice said...

We'll know in just an hour or so!



Fun, fun, fun! :-D

sandy on signal said...

Fred's not dead; yet, looks like he gets to see another day.



Obama wins. I feel sick that Edwards didn't beat Hillary by a bigger margin. Hillary will probably tell us tomorrow how this wasn't an important race it was just a caucus. Heh.

alice said...

Oh, tune into MSNBC -- we're about to hear from the Hillary machine. Let the spinning begin!

sandy on signal said...

Edwards is on now. I love his message. I hate to ruin my good mood by listening to Mark Penn's mouthpiece, so I think I will turn over to Wolf Blitzer after Edwards is finished speaking.

smijer said...

close on your predictions... good job. I still stand by my prediction of a Romney nomination, but things are definitely looking up for John McCain. The GOP could do worse (than the latter).

alice said...

Either Romney or McCain would be ok with me -- we can run against them comfortably and they both have strong negatives. Huckabee worries me as our opposition (there's no predicting that religious right), but think maybe he's peaked, fortunately. I don't see Thompson, Hunter or Giuliani getting any traction, and the only way Ron Paul is going to be in the race past the primaries is as an independent/third party candidate.