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In addition to John Aravosis' point below, remember that ultimately this first, second, third place chatter is really sort of beside the point. This was not a winner-take-all contest. Yes, Obama won the "race," but in terms of delegates won, Obama, Edwards and Clinton were virtually tied. As were Fred Thompson, John McCain and Ron Paul!
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by John Aravosis (DC)
Huckabee won Iowa with nearly 36,000 votes.
Hillary lost Iowa, and came in 3rd, with 29% of the vote. A projected 220,000 people turned out to vote in the Democratic caucuses, meaning Hillary got 29% of those voters, or an estimated 63,800 - nearly twice the number of votes that Huckabee got. (Actually, the Des Moines Register's latest numbers show Hillary getting just over 67,000 votes, so I was right.)
So our 3rd place candidate beat their first place candidate by almost a factor of two. Not sure what it means, but it's funny as hell.
Huckabee won Iowa with nearly 36,000 votes.
Hillary lost Iowa, and came in 3rd, with 29% of the vote. A projected 220,000 people turned out to vote in the Democratic caucuses, meaning Hillary got 29% of those voters, or an estimated 63,800 - nearly twice the number of votes that Huckabee got. (Actually, the Des Moines Register's latest numbers show Hillary getting just over 67,000 votes, so I was right.)
So our 3rd place candidate beat their first place candidate by almost a factor of two. Not sure what it means, but it's funny as hell.
From: AmericaBlog
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