Uk nationals celebrate a little early

America goes Obama mad says the Sun as the nationals take the results in Iowa as the start of a change in American politics

George Pascoe Watson writing in the same paper

COULD this be the Presidential election which changes America for good?
Barack Obama is a black man who swept to victory in a state which is 95 per cent white.
He won over huge swathes of under25s and undecided voters.
And he won the hearts of women voters – despite being up against feminist Hillary Clinton.
Obama is a 46-year-old rookie untainted by the cynical treadmill of Washington politics.

The Independent not surprisingly is over the moon at the prospect of regime change

"Change" is the oldest word in the political lexicon, but it is also the most galvanising. And suddenly it seems more than conceivable that Mr Obama, black, relatively untested and looking even younger than his 46 years, could ride it to the White House.

Its leader ,with a hint of caution ,reminding us

The clear victory for Barack Obama, in a state that was not his natural terrain either, was seized upon by some as giving the lie to the view that white voters would never support a black candidate. Gratifying though Mr Obama's victory will be to him and his burgeoning team, however, the white Democrats who constituted the Iowa caucus electorate were never likely to present his main problem. It is white Republicans he has to win over, and – while this may seem counterintuitive – the many black Americans who do not see him as one of them.

The Guardian too

Even with this year's changes, an American presidential election is still a marathon not a sprint. So start with some provisos. The winning numbers in the 2008 Iowa presidential caucuses were not overwhelming. but also telling us

do not shy away from the obvious, either. On the Democratic side, the next presidential candidate will now be either a black man or a woman - and the chances have risen that it will be Mr Obama.

The Telegraph rather philosophically says

On one continent, at least, democracy is gloriously in the ascendant. Asia is shamed by Pakistan, Africa by Kenya. In South America, three Left-wing autocrats have dissolved their parliaments. Europe, meanwhile, is traducing the whole notion of representative government by adopting the reheated constitution without the referendums that had been promised in seven EU members.
In North America, though, we have democracy at its rawest and most elemental. Primaries expose candidates to the blasting wind of public scrutiny. Try as they might to press themselves into some sheltering nook, they cannot hide their personalities from the voters.

The message that Bush should take from the mood expressed in Iowa says the Times was

expressed by voters in Iowa towards the present incumbent in the White House was not quite that brutal, but it was firm all the same. A record number of electors turned out to the Democratic caucuses, which had more than twice the participants seen at their Republican equivalents adding that

Mr Bush should not shrink into his shell. Nor should he resort to desperate populism in a probably doomed attempt to drive up his opinion poll scores. He retains immense authority. Neither the United States nor the wider world can afford for him to become a semidetached leader. As the American unemployment figures yesterday confirmed, there is the serious risk of a sharp economic slowdown in the US. Averting this will not be helped if the executive branch is regarded as ineffective. A departing president should also be looking to diminish the foreign policy problems that he hands over to a successor. Mr Bush must not be reduced to an Aunt Sally for angry and alienated voters during the primary season.

American revolution says the Mirror

The beginning of the end of George W Bush could also break the mould of American politics thanks to yesterday's triumph by Barack Obama.

The Mail too praises democracy

Can there be anything more fascinating in politics than the raw democratic process by which America chooses its president? The Iowa caucus, the first contest for presidential hopefuls, threw up some electrifying surprises yesterday.

Across the water,the La Times looks to New Hampshire

the challenge for the winners -- Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mike Huckabee -- is to make their political magic work with voters in other states who may be less receptive to their anti-establishment message.The risk for Obama and Huckabee is that they may suffer the fate of past insurgents who soared in early tests only to fizzle in late primaries. In 1984, Democrat Gary Hart had a surprise win in New Hampshire, but faded fast and was eventually trounced by the establishment's candidate, Walter F. Mondale.

Caution from the New York Times

It is dangerous to draw too many conclusions from the Iowa caucuses — a telegenic display of activism by a tiny slice of Americans. No winner of contested Iowa caucuses has then gone on to win the White House.

but

some powerful political currents were on display in Iowa, starting with a yearning for change and inspirational leadership among Democrats.

and in the same paper,David Brooks writes that

I’ve been through election nights that brought a political earthquake to the country. I’ve never been through an election night that brought two.

The Washington post looking at the realities

In his breathtakingly eloquent victory speech Thursday, Mr. Obama said Iowa would be remembered as "the moment when we tore down barriers that have divided us for too long, when we rallied people of all parties and ages to a common cause."
But what cause, precisely? There's virtually nothing in Mr. Obama's platform that diverges from the standard, left-wing Democratic fare. He promised again Thursday not to "just tell you what you want to hear, but what you need to know." But virtually nothing he says is dissonant to liberal ears; in foreign policy, trade policy, education policy, fiscal policy, there is nothing with a nod to the possibility of good ideas in the red-state playbook.

Its commentator,E.J.Dionne Jr,writes

Iowa voters in both parties staged a rebellion against the status quo and against the past.
Mike Huckabee's decisive victory over Mitt Romney in the Iowa caucuses last night marks a revolution in Republican politics. An outspent outsider triumphed over a former governor who played an inside game. Huckabee's victory is also the revenge of evangelical Christians who had been taken for granted by the GOP establishment and decided to vote for one of their own, a Baptist minister turned politician.
Change, particularly generational change, was also at the heart of Barack Obama's victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards. Young voters and independents flocked to the Illinois senator. Media entrance polls showed that Obama defeated Clinton by better than 5 to 1 among voters under age 30, and such voters made up almost as large a share of the caucus electorate as voters over 65, a strongly pro-Clinton group. Among independents, Obama beat Clinton by better than 2 to 1.