"Obviously we're still counting votes, but it's not looking good," said Dave Roederer, chairman of McCain's Iowa campaign, in reaction to Obama winning Iowa and the nation. "We're disappointed that Senator McCain doesn't appear to have won it. We felt we were doing pretty good until the economic tsunami hit and I think Republicans got wrongfully blamed for that."

Iowa Republicans at the Marriott in downtown Des Moines booed as U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin made his televised acceptance speech, just as the crowd surrounding John McCain did as he made his concession speech and said he called Obama to congratulate him.

The party of Iowa Republicans seemed to be dying down quite a bit after 10 p.m. and more drinks were evident.

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