{"id":778,"date":"2008-01-04T11:44:05","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T10:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=778"},"modified":"2008-01-04T11:44:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T10:44:05","slug":"the-american-presidential-election-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"The American presidential election (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first actual vote of voter opinion in the US presidential primaries,  the people of Iowa have now spoken &#8211; or at least a few hundred thousand of them out of three million (although turnout was much higher than four years ago).<br \/>\nIn the Republican camp, the result was:<br \/>\nHuckabee    34.3%<br \/>\nRomney       25.3%<br \/>\nThomson     13.4%<br \/>\nMcCain        13.1%<br \/>\nPaul 10.0%<br \/>\nGiuliani   3.5%<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think this result tells us very much about the likely winner of the Republican race. Huckabee&#8217;s massive support from evangelical Christians in Iowa will not translate to New Hampshire and elsewhere<br \/>\nOn the Democratic side, the result was:<br \/>\nObama          37.6%<br \/>\nEdwards       29.7%<br \/>\nClinton           29.5%<br \/>\nRichardson     2.1%<br \/>\nNow this is a much more interesting result. It doesn&#8217;t mean than Clinton (or even Edwards) cannot win the nomination, but it is an enormously satisfying performance for my preferred candidate Barack Obama.<br \/>\nAn American friend of mine from Illinois &#8211; where Obama is a senator &#8211; e-mailed me today: &#8220;His speech tonight was excellent, talking about bringing the country together. If he can win in New Hampshire, he is definitely on his way to being the candidate. I think it is remarkable that a mid-western state that is 95% white, has brought out the vote among so  many young people, for a Black candidate. We surely do live in interesting times.&#8221;<br \/>\nYou can see how the American press carried the news on their front pages <a href=\"http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/page\/community\/post_group\/ObamaHQFeature\/CCqB\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first actual vote of voter opinion in the US presidential primaries, the people of Iowa have now spoken &#8211; or at least a few hundred thousand of them out of three million (although turnout was much higher than four years ago). In the Republican camp, the result was: Huckabee 34.3% Romney 25.3% Thomson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}