Gephardt Regains lead in Iowa

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Re. the Battle Flag, it's Dean not Gephardt that said he wanted "guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks" to vote for him.

[migrendel]

I'm aware RealPolitik, and I'm wondering whether that's enough to force me to oppose Dean and re-join Kerry.

[Flying Dog]

Kerry is 10 times better than dean.  But gephardt is 1,000 times better than kerry.  But thats only my opinion.

I used to be a lieberman supporter.  But I found him to conservative and not attacking bush on the issues.  I was looking for someone who whould stand up to bush. I found that in dean.  I was a dean supporter in the summer.  But more and more I listened to dean I found him more and more liberal.  To liberal to win the white house.  There were 8 other candidates I could choose from. I crossed of Lieberman because he is to conservative.  I crossed of braun,sharpton,and kuchinich because they hardly have a chance of winning.  I didnt like edwards.  I put clark on hold because I didnt know were he stood.  Kerry and Gephardt were left, I decided not to support kerry because the was like dean a northeast liberal and could not win. I choose gephardt the and I agreed on most on issues.  He had a good chance of winning the white house. Vote Gephardt

[Flying Dog]

sorry that is kind of sloppy

[Flying Dog]

Another sign that gephardt is goin to win Iowa.


GEPHARDT: 27%
DEAN        : 20%

[Inmate Trump]

I think Gephardt will slide eventually in Iowa and Dean will come back to sweep victory.  That's just my early prediction.  We'll see.

[Gustaf]

I don't know enough about American politics to be sure about this, but wouldn't it hurt Dean if he lost Iowa, considering he has been ahead? I know it would be worse for Gephart to lose, but still. Couldn't it then damage Dean's NH vote enough to make it look bad (say he wins with a much smaller margin than expected, like Muskie or Johnson did). Then he might lose his momentum, someone else could move in and a completely different picture could emerge.

[jravnsbo]

It would hurt Dean, but so far there is no indication that he will lose IA, he has continued to lead recently and even strengthened his lead.

[Gustaf]

Ah, this entire discussion was slightly outdated...

I didn't look at the dates and the Swedish media don't say much about American politics, so I can't follow the polls as much as I would like too. But there you go then, forget I said anything, I won't post more comments on outdated threads.