ABC broke in to regular programming to declare Huckabee and Obama winners

[undeterred]

more than 10 minutes ago... with Clinton finishing second and Edwards finishing a disappointing third. Since all the precincts aren't counted yet and its very close- how does he know that? This was done by Charlie Gibson.

[DS1]

1. they don't care. they report what they want to hear

[Donnachaidh]

2. ABC is full of shit, of course

but then, they went with Bush before the votes were in, so why not? :sarcasm:

[babylonsister]

3. Wow. It ain't over yet for Dems. Huck is a done deal. nt

[maddezmom]

4. odd, MSNBC has it Obama, Edwards, Clinton

35%, 32% and 31%

[lonestarnot]

6. :shrug:

Senator Barack Obama : 34.62%
Senator John Edwards : 31.48%
Senator Hillary Clinton : 31.13%

http://www.iowacaucusresults.com/

[MadMaddie]

Does this sound familiar my friends

The media did the same shit in the last election....remember?

[lonestarnot]

5. fixing the caucus ... bwaha ha ha ha.

:rofl:

[salin]

7. NBC did the same for Huckabee, but announced the lead of Obama

and tie (a few percentage points below) for Clinton and Edwards.

[Penndems]

8. It is waaay too early for the networks to make these projections

Didn't they learn anything from the 2000 Presidential Election? :mad:

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. For the huckster it is possible, he is well over 10 points ahead

[Penndems]

11. If Huckabee is ten points up, then yeah - he's blowing away the other candidates

But the Dem Caucus is still a three-way, neck-and-neck race.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Hmm Obama is STILL in statistical error

SENATOR BARACK OBAMA : 34.81%
SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS : 31.34%
SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON : 31.04%
GOVERNOR BILL RICHARDSON : 1.69%
SENATOR JOE BIDEN : 1.00%
UNCOMMITTED : 0.07%
SENATOR CHRIS DODD : 0.04%
PRECINCTS REPORTING: 1108 OF 1781
(PERCENTAGES ARE STATE DELEGATE EQUIVALENTS.)

[joe_sixpack]

12. It was the media

that told us who the only three viable democratic candidates were, and we accepted that quite easily. Why should we doubt them now?

[undeterred]

16. Right.

I looked at the Iowa caucus page right after he said this and only 700 had been counted. They just want us to know everything is under control.

[rAVES]

13. :P

Senator Barack Obama : 35.06%
Senator John Edwards : 31.19%
Senator Hillary Clinton : 30.87%
Governor Bill Richardson : 1.78%
Senator Joe Biden : 0.97%
Uncommitted : 0.11%
Senator Chris Dodd : 0.03%
Precincts Reporting: 1262 of 1781

[Lone_Star_Dem]

14. I'll give them Huckabee

But I'm not comfortable in calling a Dem win yet.

Obama is doing great and Edwards and Clinton are fighting it out within fractions, but still any one of them could pull it off.

[bigwillq]

15. MSNBC just called for Obama

[Lone_Star_Dem]

18. It's looking good for him.

Still, how the heck can someone pick second and third at this point?

[salin]

17. NBC just called for Obama

[dweller]

19. yeah, they cut the sound of the show

to show a text w/ a blaring tuba or something...

dickheads.
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