Idle Speculator: Huckabee and Obama

Please see our latest Idle Speculator piece, an assessment of the Obama and Huckabee victories in Iowa and their respective tax platforms: http://www.symmetrycapital.net/idlespeculation/20080104.pdf

Further reading:

Alan Fram of Associated Press reports that Huckabee’s supporters were overwhelmingly driven by religious motives, and that Obama was helped by turnout among younger voters: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hWo9LoUnPeka7_l2cOeaLRisAJ5gD8TV5IJ80

The Economist’s take, "A call for change", is available at http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10473364&top_story=1 

CSM also sees the results as an endorsement of political change: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0104/p25s03-uspo.html 

NPR looks ahead to New Hampshire: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17844497 

Laffer: Attacking the “Onslaught”

Art Laffer’s begins his rebuttal to Jonathan Chait with a good counter offensive ("The Onslaught from the Left, Part I: Fact Vs. Fiction"). See our full review, "Wing Nuts Unite!", at http://www.symmetrycapital.net/idlespeculation/2007110701.pdf