(2008/01/05) Round 1: Iowa (MP3)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 5 January 2008
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Act 2: The Young Turks - Iowa Wrap Up
Act 3: Obama - Victory Speech
Act 4: Rachel Maddow - Economic Populism
Act 5: The Young Turks - Record Breaking Turnout
Act 6: Sam Seder - Break Out the Popcorn
Music:
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Rise - Public Image Ltd.
The Nothing Song - Sigur Rós
Lookin' for a Leader - Neil Young
Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J
Produced By:
Billy Baptism
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Best of the Life and Podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | Today we have clips from the young Turks, Barack Obama, Rachel Maddow and the Sam Cedar |
| 0:17.7 | Sherry to welcome to the young Turks Iowa caucus special coverage tonight live |
| 0:35.6 | janky group bed manquets west large union will be joining us later J.R. producing |
| 0:39.9 | Jesus directing everybody yet ready is that that is that what they do in Iowa is |
| 0:53.8 | somebody actually blow a bugle to say the caucus rooms are open yes now they're |
| 0:57.2 | not open yet hold hold they open in half an hour T minus half an hour left |
| 1:06.0 | they're coming so we're coming 630 they open in Iowa 630 Iowa time they will open |
| 1:13.5 | and they will be flooded by tens maybe dozens yeah Iowa caucus goers |
| 1:36.0 | yeah I just think it looks like that the rural rapids really turned out for my |
| 1:47.8 | company well look by the way it was 40% of the precincts reporting Huckabee's |
| 1:53.3 | lead is at least smaller it's now 31 23 it's that doesn't make a slight |
| 1:58.2 | difference if at 16% it's a blowout at 8% okay he beat Romney comfortably but |
| 2:03.4 | it's not a blowout oh we got a gavel we got a gavel well that's kind of |
| 2:09.0 | strong language it's 718 and Phoenix I'm prepared to I'm prepared not the |
| 2:17.9 | network I'm gonna call it wow we have a call yeah Barack Obama's gonna win the |
| 2:22.8 | Iowa caucus wow there it is we are a slash maybe not no no no no it's a I mean |
| 2:28.8 | it's been a steady climb since those first numbers you know we're pushing 60% |
| 2:34.2 | now of the votes are in in fact we're over 60% we're coming in on 70% that |
| 2:39.8 | lead has done nothing but increase it's now a three and a half percent lead |
| 2:43.4 | with over 60% of the precincts reporting he's gonna win it's a question I |
| 2:48.1 | mean I don't know whether he's going to win by two three four five but he's |
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