Is Jon Swift’s piece really parody?
A day or so after the Iowa caucus, Yahoo! News headlined an analysis of the “winners and losers” at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/01/winners_losers_from_iowa.html by Stuart Rosenberg of RealClearPolitics.com, a supposedly non-partisan website (more on that later) that makes one wonder whether Swift’s post was parody or, rather, an amalgamation of the punditry coming out of the Iowa caucuses. I assume Swift meant to be tongue-in-cheek with his calling out of Huckabee as the big loser on the Republican side, declaration of Biden/Dodd/Richardson as the big winners for the Democrats, and endorsement of Kucinich’s political strategy; but as for the other candidates, there is really not that much difference between the two lists. Even with Huckabee, both emphasized the same caveat regarding Huckabee’s base, each going into similar statistical detail regarding Huckabee’s support in Iowa from religious/evangelical voters. Clinton and Edwards, who each garnered somewhere betwee
