Obama and Huckabee take an early lead. I like Obama the most of any viable candidate and it is very good that all of the Democrats in the field roughly agree on a platform way to the left of the “centrist” platforms we had to deal with before. Not as left as I would like of course, but good.

The big nightmare for the republicans is that the rubes they were pandering to actually found a true believer in Huckabee. But at this point it looks like the only candidate that has any chance in the general election–Mccain–seems to be way behind. Also Ron Paul’s relatively strong showing makes me think he might make an independent run, if he can fund it. So at the risk of being horribly, horribly wrong I am going call this election for the democrat, who I suspect will be Barack Obama or John Edwards.