It’s on in Iowa (UPDATE 20: BIDEN DROPS OUT)
The caucuses will be underway at 8pm ET. The media and the blogosphere are buzzing in anticipation of what the results will be.
Iowa predictions
The big news of the day of course is tonight’s Iowa caucuses. Please use this thread to make your predictions about what you think will happen. I’m predicting Obama and Huckabee as tonight’s winners. Keep in mind, though, that a winner tonight doesn’t guarantee that that guy or gal will be the nominee, so if your candidate doesn’t win, don’t lose hope.
Going for broke: John Edwards calls for rapid withdrawal from Iraq
With one day left before the Iowa caucuses, His Royal Phoniness, currently on a 36 hour ‘marathon tour’ of Iowa (lucky Iowans!), is making a desperate last pitch to Iowa Democrats for their vote by unveiling a ‘new and improved’ Iraq withdrawal plan that would quickly pull out most US troops who are training Iraqi forces, as part of an overall strategy of withdrawing most troops within ten months of his (hoped for) election as president (h/t: James Joyner):
Hillary Clinton makes Mike Huckabee look like a genius on the issue of Pakistan
On Saturday, I wrote about Republican candidate Mike Huckabee’s numerous flubs on the campaign trail, and noted that one of the most recent ones was a false assertion he made about illegal Pakistan immigrants. That wasn’t the only flub he made about Pakistan in the aftermath of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Read about the rest here.