Politics: Iowa Caucus Losses for Anti-Gaming Politicians

This will just quickly sum up that Hildawg and Mitt Romney both lost in upsets in the Iowa Caucuses, the first round of the primaries (though they're not technically primaries until New Hampshire Tuesday). My previous post on the subject should fill you in on their stances on video game legislation. The candidates that won, Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee, both have specific factors increasing their video game, uh, street cred. Obama is cool simply because he sounded the least willing to pass legislation to ban M-rated video games for minors, though still not exactly defending their right to play them.

Huckabee, though I don't support him at all, has at least documented proof that he has played Guitar Hero (along with real guitar). The gamepolitics.com article here talks about it, though the doctored photo is a bit weird. Huckabee did not respond to the survey from my previous post, however, so his stance on video game legislation is unknown.

Anyway, sort of good news for the political gamer. I'm not suggesting that you vote on one issue like these articles talk about, but at least make sure you vote if you're able, or else these politicians will never represent the youth perspective as much as they ought to. We shouldn't be settling for just the least offensive position on video game legislation as we are anyway.