Some pundits are reading Iowa as a repudiation of the hard-core Lefties who've controlled the dialogue thus far in the 2004 campaign. Most have pointed out that 75% of the vote went to candidates who supported the Iraq War. This DOES show that the war isn't the defining issue of the campaign, but that's not the same thing as saying the lunatic Left has lost its teeth.
The war was only a focal point of a much broader, more lasting motivation -- hatred of Bush. Voting for relatively normal candidates like Kerry and Edwards doesn't demonstrate a sudden bout of sanity. It shows that they're calculating enough in their madness to see Dean was damaged goods.
This election is about finding a way to get rid of the "thief" of the 2000 elections. And once Dean went wobbly on them in the past couple of weeks, it seems to me that Iowa voters moved on to more electable candidates.
Posted by Discoshaman at janvier 21, 2004 12:40 AM | TrackBack