A Race to the Finish
DES MOINES (Posted Jan. 3, 2008) – Miles of skywalk in downtown Des Moines help you combat the cold and negotiate your way 
around the city. There is a collage of campaign buttons and candidate signs, and a voter enthusiasm for tonight’s caucuses is at a fever pitch.
One of those exuberant folks is Princella Smith, a 24-year-old who proudly sports the campaign of Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s (R ). Smith’s an African-American, a Republican and a native of Arkansas. She told me that other Blacks should also take a serious look at him too.
“He’s got a lot of executive experience,” Smith said. The American people cannot be bought, and they can’t be fooled. He’s not trying to do either.”
Black folks and the Republican Party have a lot in common, she said, and they should at least consider him as an option.
“The Republican Party is about ownership, leadership and individualism,” she said. “It talks about a message of improvement, and it’s very in-sync with African-Americans.”
Lori Mordini, from Des Moines, is supporting Delaware Sen. Joe Biden (D). “I’ve always been impressed; my husband supported him in 1988,”she said. Mordini went to see other candidates, but she said none came close to Biden. “He spoke to my heart and gave detailed answers to every question – he brings the audience along.”
When you look at media reports, the race appears to only be about the frontrunners in both parties. But I discovered, while driving around town, that the neighborhoods are peppered with placards for all of the candidates and that folks are wearing lapel pins for dozens of candidates.
Brendon Davis, 28 is from Washington, D.C., and he moved to Iowa for a month to help his candidate, Ron Paul. Davis said his support for Paul is to protect his generation and his children’s from the reckless ways of Washington. “Spending is out of control and he’s the only candidate who wants to restore good government and cut spending,” Davis said.
While we’ll have to wait for the results tonight, one thing is for sure: We don’t have a clear picture of who’ll win in either party.
Do you think Blacks should take a look at more candidates in the Republican field? Will you?
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