Political Equinox

This post is part of a two part series. Neil Kelty will be commenting on the Republican Primaries while Patrick McAlister will soon follow with the Democratic Primaries.

If you didn’t notice, yesterday was Super Tuesday. The big news yesterday was the “Huckacomeback.”

Mike Huckabee was considered to be the John Edwards of the Republican Party. You know, the I’m in the race, but not really type of candidate. The only problem with that notation is that Huckabee nearly won several states. His big loss was Missouri, that hurt. Big time. Those 58 delegates actually put him 116 behind where he would have been. (I guess if you want to be all mathematical you could say 58, but since Huckabee could have …

Tags: candidate, fort wayne, huckabee, Internet, John Edwards, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, mitt romney, president, republican, ron paul

Update: Just in case you didn’t realize, Super Tuesday coverage is now over. Therefore you cannot watch live coverage anymore. I have removed the live stream to save us all some heartache.

Enjoy live MSNBC coverage of Super Tuesday. This stream is from MSNBC and is ahead of your television!

When in Iowa, Tyler Chris and I took part in an NPR discussion in a museum in downtown Des Moines. While wandering around the museum after the event, we stumbled upon an exhibit which looked at the history of the Iowa caucus. One wall had the campaign posters of everyone in the 2008 race. I had heard of every name on the wall, even those who had dropped out early on - Senator Bayh, Senator Vilsack, former Senator Daschle were just a few of the names on the wall.

There was, however, one candidate I had never heard of - he was a Republican named John Cox.

When i got back to my room, I Youtube’d (hey, we use Google as a …

Tags: candidate, Congress, Illinois, republican, web