keithw999's Blog

While I can't accuse the news media of not reporting factual news events, it seems that it really takes some digging to find what should be the daily headlines. Just weeks before the first electoral contest in the nation, the Iowa Caucuses, Democrat contender Senator Barak Obama has taken the lead in the latest poll over the supposedly unstoppable front-runner, Senator Hillary Rodham-Clinton. There's hardly any mention or analysis of this in the mainstream press. With the millions of dollars that Mitt Romney has been spending in Iowa, suddenly second-tier candidate Mike Huckabee has moved up to second place in the polls, within striking distance. Mind you, Mike Huckabee has done this with practically no money. What's going on here?

I don't pretend to be a great mind that can analyze these two events (among others) but I see a couple of upsets in the making. In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and state for the record that unless Mrs. Clinton is able to shore-up her sliding poll numbers, she is about to be upset in Iowa. I don't think that is the case for Mitt Romney on the Republican side (yet) but that contest bears watching. Things can change suddenly between now and January.