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...it’s happening: In Thursday’s Iowa Caucus, despite being outspent five to one by two celebrity, media-darling candidates, John Edwards was lifted by the support of regular Americans to a strong second, and defeated the so-called “inevitable” candidate, Hillary Clinton. The mandate in Iowa was overwhelmingly for change, a sentiment that is undoubtedly shared by people across the nation...
...McCain’s reputation as a maverick above partisan politics is well-earned. Calling on his own experience as a prisoner of war, he has ardently opposed torture and criticized many in his own party who do not. While campaigning in Iowa, he refused to “drink his morning glass of ethanol,” as he jokingly refers to other candidates’ support of ethanol subsidies to pander to the Iowa constituency. Time and time again, he has come out against special interest groups and wasteful government spending, all in the name of serving...
Last Thursday, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama emerged from the Iowa caucuses with a decisive victory over his two main opponents, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. At first glance, the wide margin of Obama’s victory might seem inexplicable. After all, every Democratic candidate supports withdrawal from Iraq, a broad expansion of health care, a comprehensive solution to the threat of climate change, and a host of other progressive reforms. In the absence of major differences between the candidates’ policy positions, Obama’s victory might seem...
...ordinary political process. Obama won with enthusiastic support from more groups than his typical strongholds—college students and highly educated liberals. More women voted for Obama than for Clinton; more union members and their families voted for Obama than for Edwards. Clearly, then, his victory in Iowa was not only a consequence of his campaign’s ability to mobilize an established base of voters...
Once again, the Iowa caucuses provide evidence for the power of this message: Of the majority of caucus-goers who said that “change” was the single most important issue for them, more than half voted for Obama, compared to 19 for Clinton and 20 for Edwards. Moreover, Obama won decisively among the unprecedented 57 percent of caucus-goers who had never attended a caucus before. The record turnout in Iowa, especially among the formerly politically apathetic, shows that his campaign is already starting to achieve its aims...