Dean Comes Third

The Iowa Caucusses result could have been better. Kerry - of whom I have a pretty poor opinion (he's pro Iraq war; he does have a semi-decent platform on healthcare, the environment and education - but it reeks of 'pie in the sky' vision, lacking any real detail) came first, and Edwards (a 'help the middle class' economic policy, one free year of college tuition, pro-war/patriot act, and with such a piddly little healthcare reform policy that it might as well not exist) came second. Dean, probably because he's a leftist with vision, came third by quite a large margin. He's not out of the race, but if he doesn't do better in New Hampshire then he may well be. :-(

What's really interesting is looking at the statistics of who voted for whom. Iowa Men love Kerry, while women tended towards Edwards. Dean had a lot of the younger voters, of both genders. Unfortunately for Dean, this powerbase may cost him the race: young people in America are apathetic in the extreme. Dean mobilised a pretty impressive number of people in Iowa (as Caucusses go - taking 2+ hours to vote in public is ridiculous, and might put anyone who has a job off voting!), but it wasn't enough. Lets hope that New Hampshire goes better.
Mood: worried
Music: Construction workers