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Some thoughts on yesterday's Iowa caucuses:

While my wife is pleased with the outcome, I still think that John Kerry's victory will be remembered as a great day in the history of robots -- even unemotional mechanical beings posing as humans can win! (It's not that I think Kerry is plastic, phony and forced, but... well, yeah, I guess it is.)

I found it interesting that, at approximately 9:15 or so, CBS (and probably the other major networks) decided to call the winner of the caucus with less than half of the precincts reporting in. Isn't that, you know, pretty much what got us into the Florida debacle in 2000? Granted, Iowa's system is such that you're not looking at the popular vote, and I suppose that one could earn enough delegates early on to mathematically make oneself the winner without having to wait for the rest of the state to weigh in. Still and all, is that a road you want to travel? Wait and see if it happens next week in New Hampshire, I guess. (Note: Turns out some of the news networks were calling it as early as five after eight. And don't get me started about the false utility of "entrance polls"...)

A note to DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe: I know you think the party will choose its nominee by March 10, but you don't mind if the voters in, say, Kansas or Illinois or Pennsylvania or New Jersey or a dozen other states cast their votes first, do you?

posted by Gus at 8:27 AM | |