Superville Review

Jesse Jackson ran for Presidential office on two occasions. Shirley Chisholm. Alan Keyes. Barack Obama, who some black pundits felt the need to point out wasn't a "real" African-America despite the fact his father is Kenyan, his mother a midwesterner, and he was born in the United States, actually won the Iowa caucus. Obama's platform of hope was able to resonate in Iowa, a state that is whiter than Antartica. I must admit I never though I would see this event. I hoped it was possible. I daydreamed it's happening, but in my mind I thought Senator Obama would be doing well coming in second place to Hillary Clinton. Sometimes America can surprise it's own.

Mike Huckabee? A month ago he was one of the many non-descript candidates on the GOP side attempting to delineate themselves from each other and distance themselves from the debacle of George Bush's presidency. But like Obama, Huckabee has shown himself to be different enough from the status quo and at once likeable and thereby able to garner enough support to topple "Slick" Romney and John McCain in Iowa. (And Guiliani finishes uh-oh last.)

New Hampshire awaits these new front runners, but there victory in the Live Free or Die state is far from guaranteed. But at least for one night one state of Americans truly seem to be telling the rest of the country that change can only come from politicians that seem to be less like politicians.