Friday, January 04, 2008
Thoughts on Iowa
In Eastern Iowa, Dr. Paul got 14% of the vote, which put him solidly in
3rd place there. Eastern Iowa has the college town of Iowa City, so he
got the youth vote. The problem with Iowa was the internet. Iowa is
rural and barely registers as a source in internet searches. Huckabee's
support was massively in the rural areas.
The most significant internet searches for Dr. Paul are coming from
Texas, California, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Tennessee, and
Massachusetts. Big states.
Eastern Iowa is also closest in demographics to New Hampshire.
Dr. Paul was also the big favorite with independent voters - and they
are a significant number in New Hampshire.
The big news on CNN, of course, is that he beat "frontrunner" Rudy by a
landslide. And neither of them really concentrated on Iowa. Also, CNN is
(delightedly) capitalizing on Fox News' excluding Dr. Paul in the
debate, which is bringing more awareness to Dr. Paul.
After the primary, Dr. Paul told supporters in Des Moines, "This is not
the end. This is the beginning. I am more encouraged than ever before."
He is favored to win at least 3rd in New Hampshire, which will be a big
boost to the campaign overall.
As to the Fox News debate, this was a very bad move. Dr. Paul's
supporters are holding rallies, writing letters to editors, boycotting
all the sponsors, and calling Fox News. Supporters have already shut
down the phones at the New Hampshire GOP HQ, which has had to ask people
to please call Fox News, they had had nothing to do with it. Perhaps
most painful of all, they are calling shareholders asking them to sell
their stocks.
There's evidence that the stock is already taking a hit.
If you would like to see Dr. Paul in a debate, please tune in Saturday night from 7 to 11 (EST) on ABC for the New Hampshire Debates.
3rd place there. Eastern Iowa has the college town of Iowa City, so he
got the youth vote. The problem with Iowa was the internet. Iowa is
rural and barely registers as a source in internet searches. Huckabee's
support was massively in the rural areas.
The most significant internet searches for Dr. Paul are coming from
Texas, California, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Tennessee, and
Massachusetts. Big states.
Eastern Iowa is also closest in demographics to New Hampshire.
Dr. Paul was also the big favorite with independent voters - and they
are a significant number in New Hampshire.
The big news on CNN, of course, is that he beat "frontrunner" Rudy by a
landslide. And neither of them really concentrated on Iowa. Also, CNN is
(delightedly) capitalizing on Fox News' excluding Dr. Paul in the
debate, which is bringing more awareness to Dr. Paul.
After the primary, Dr. Paul told supporters in Des Moines, "This is not
the end. This is the beginning. I am more encouraged than ever before."
He is favored to win at least 3rd in New Hampshire, which will be a big
boost to the campaign overall.
As to the Fox News debate, this was a very bad move. Dr. Paul's
supporters are holding rallies, writing letters to editors, boycotting
all the sponsors, and calling Fox News. Supporters have already shut
down the phones at the New Hampshire GOP HQ, which has had to ask people
to please call Fox News, they had had nothing to do with it. Perhaps
most painful of all, they are calling shareholders asking them to sell
their stocks.
There's evidence that the stock is already taking a hit.
If you would like to see Dr. Paul in a debate, please tune in Saturday night from 7 to 11 (EST) on ABC for the New Hampshire Debates.
2 Comments:
We were watching FNC last night with Gretta, Shep, Laura, and that gravelly-voiced democrat woman, when Gretta said she thought Fox ought to pull up a chair for RP in the next "debate." They aren't going to do it because they want to try to focus and narrow the playing field. Sure, RP adds a lot to the discussion, but he is not a viable candidate (in most people's opinions)...so, he's excluded. I think it's not "fair and balanced" to exclude any candidate who wants to remain in the race. I think the field gets narrowed as primary results show who the front-runners are and those who don't get votes start to bow out. FNC is effectually denying a candidate his right to be heard and denying "the people" the right to hear him.
To paraphrase my dad's quote from last night, 'what happened to "we report"?'.
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