Ok, I’ve seen that Huckabee won Iowa. It’s a bittersweet morning for me with Huckabee and Obama winning. I could gladly agree with what pundits have been saying for years: that Iowa is not that important; but then I’m somewhat shooting myself in the foot because I’m happy Obama won. There is no happy medium.
On the grand scale, though, Iowa does not matter nearly as much as it seems to. The only reason we watch Iowa’s strange caucuses with such fervor is due to its first-to-do-it status. If the first state were Colorado or Tennessee or some other ‘middle-America’ state, we would have the same view. The real contest will be New Hampshire. There you have a real election, where people actually turn out and exercise a vote. They don’t just stand in a corner with their hand raised.
As seen time and time again, whoever wins Iowa does not always win New Hampshire and does not always win the nomination. On that note, I still want to say how happy I am Obama won but there is still a long road ahead and I don’t know that he’s got what it takes to get the nomination. The same goes for Huckabee, thank goodness. It’s always nice, though, when an underdog wins. I can only hope that the underdog in this whole extravaganza is Obama not Huckabee.