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The Transparency Of JPod

By The Daily Dish
Jan 4 2008, 4:39 AM ET

He's still spinning for Rudy:

The result in Iowa could not have been better for Giuliani tactically. Romney has been injured. Huckabee won, but did not apparently win by a huge margin, and there won't be many other states where evangelicals make up fully three-fifths of the primary electorate.

My italics. Huckabee beat Romney by nine points in a very crowded field. He got ten times the vote of Rudy. That was a huge margin of victory, however you look at it. The final polls showed a three-point lead. He tripled it. JPod may be right about the next few weeks in general, though I doubt it. But you can't spin away this victory as anything but huge. Benen comments:

I've seen blind optimism, but this is ridiculous.



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