It doesn't matter what channel you turn it to, the coverage of the Iowa caucus is just not that exciting.
UPDATE: CNN is calling it for Obama. Clinton and Edwards finish tied for second.
UPDATE II: Also, they're calling it for Huckabee on the Republican side. Heads explode.
UPDATE III: The Washington Post reports that 200,000 Democrats turned out for the caucus, a 75,000 increase over 2004. They weren't motivated enough last time?
UPDATE IV: Matt Glazer at Burnt Orange says Dodd is done. Matt Yglesias says the same. Dodd never had a chance, which is a shame because his foreign policy expertise and reasonableness is really quite formidable.
UPDATE V: Biden is out too, according to CNN.
UPDATE VI: Is it really that remarkable that white Democrats are willing to endorse a black man for President?
UPDATE VII: Mavs-hater and TNT sports "analyst" and clown Sir Charles Barkley says Obama is off to a "great start." I guess he can't be wrong about everything.
UPDATE VIII: By the way, none of my excitement over Obama's win changes my opinion that the Iowa caucus is an insane way to being the process of picking our next President.
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A great victory for Obama, indeed. But the fact that Democrats had nearly double the number of peopel turn out (in what is a record) and 56% were first-timers is amazing.
In a compilation of the total vote, Dems and Reps, Obama won 25%! And all three Dems got a greater percentage than Huckabee.
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