I know this is mostly a sports blog... But...

Thank you Iowan democrats for voting Barack Obama as your candidate for president. Seeing the results last night felt as if the Brewers had won the division, or if the Indians had ever pulled out ANY Game 7 in their playoff history....

News that Barack won 57% -- 57%!-- of the vote of peoples between the ages of 18-30 is astounding. This young group of voters is a demographic that has not really been reached out to for a while, other than the actual presidential election.

Obama nailed the demographic with his early rise on YouTube and Facebook -- two sites where the young people of today spend a lot of their time.

Also, listening to Obama speak brings out a bit of grace, confidence, hope, and life... I've said this to people in private conversations, but now I'm mentioning it to the world: Sometimes when Barack talks, he sounds eerily similar to MLK. His voice, his base, his hope, his optimism, his uniqueness.... I don't see how people can disregard him as not being a viable candidate.

To me, Obama's message is that he truly cares about not only this country in general, but the world, this country's reputation, the actual people of this country, and the future of our nation. He's not doing it to suck at the almighty power teet. He's not doing it because he is a famous woman whose husband was already president.

To me, Obama is the single most geniune candidate since Kennedy. His racial mix should be embraced, not scorned against. His father's native background of living in a Muslim country (Kenya), though he did not practice Islam, should not make people think that Obama is a Muslim. He's not. The only dirt other candidates have put on Obama are lies, his lack of experience (which, in terms of actually holding an elected office, he has more experience than Hillary, and more than Bill had when Bill won the presidency), and the fact that he doesn't have the "foreign relations" to lead this country.

I disagree with all of those. Your foreign relations is how you make them. The relations that we need to fix are Pakistan, Russia, North Korea, China, Iran, and Iraq with a few others in between. Obama's openness and willingness to at least talk and communicate with other countries shows that he knows we need to work well with these nations in order to grow our country, their countries, and humanity in general as a whole.

I'm not even dipping into other topics that could/should be talked about. However, I am very proud that those quarter of a million people that turned out to the polls voiced themselves and put the democratic candidates where they deserve to be: 1. Obama, 2. Edwards, 3. Clinton.

If Obama can win one of the next three (NH, Nevada, South Carolina), and place second in the other two, I think he has a great chance at becoming our next leader. And I could not be more happy.