#1 - Evangelical’s Drove the Caucus
- Based on entrance polling 60% of caucus goers were evangelical christians of which 46% went to Huckabee and only 19% went in for Romney.

#2 - 68% Supported President Bush
- 20% of Caucus goers considered themselves enthusiastic about President Bush of which 38% voted for Huckabee. Meanwhile 48% said they were satisfied with President Bush of which 34% voted for Huckabee. Meanwhile only 26% of voters said they were dissatisfied and of those Huckabee won over 31% of the vote. Only 5% were angry at Bush of which 54% voted for Ron Paul.

#3 - Huckabee Dominated Issues
- Illegal Immigration was the top choice for 33%, War in Iraq 17% , Economy 26%, Terrorism 21%. On all issues Huckabee won.

#4 - Values Votes Mattered
- 45% of voters made their decision based on “Shares my values” of which 44% went to Mike Huckabee. and only 26% turned out for Romney. 33% supported a candidate because they “says what he means” of which 33% went for Huckabee and only 14% went for Romney. Only 21% voted on electability or experience of which Romney took both categories with McCain in second and Huckabee a distant third.

#5 - Decision Was Already Made
- 59% of Republican Caucus goers made up their mind a month ago or longer and they had decided on Mike Huckabee overwhelmingly.

#1 - Second Choice Voters Went Overwhelmingly to Edwards
- Based on TPM Election Central noted that based on Entrance Polls Edwards not Obama received the majority of support from second choice votes. Clinton & Obama walked in with the bulk of their support in most precincts with Obama scoring some extra momentum from those who supported “also-ran” candidates.

#2 - Youth-Turnout
- The youth vote went overwhelmingly to Senator Barack Obama based on entrance polling. 22% of those voting were 17 - 29 years old of which 57% supported Obama. Next up 18% of the vote were ages 30-44 of which 42% went for Obama. Then the majority of the vote. These two groups made up 40% of the vote.

Clinton was the clear favorite of those 65 and older who represented 22% of the vote. She received 45% of this demographic. Meanwhile those 45 - 64 were split pretty evenly amongst the three with John Edwards squeaking out 1% more in this demographic.

#3 - 73% of the Vote Made Up Their Minds Early

73% in the entrance polling said they had made up their minds a month or over about whom to Caucus for. Only

#4 - Change
- 52% of the people voted based on wanting change. Of this 51% went in ready to caucus for Obama. Meanwhile only 20% voted based on experience of which Clinton garnered 49% of those going in. Only 8% based their decision based on electability of which Edwards won 36% of the vote with Obama coming in third with only 23% of these voters.