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Well, THAT was an interesting night last night, huh?

No matter what any of your opinions are about the Iowa caucus results, I think that we can all take some pleasure in the fact that the Democrats had a rather dully horrible night.  The Clinton supporters are frantic at the thought that she almost lost. The Sanders supporters are worried about the fact that he didn’t win. I don’t know what the O’Malley supporters thought, and neither does anybody else.  And the Democratic party in general is probably looking at their total vote participation, then looking at ours, and then getting really, really worried.

Also: f*ck ethanol subsidies. F*ck them, if you’ll pardon the highly crude pun, right in the ears. That I will gloat about, and I refuse to feel bad about said gloating.

Duelling narratives on Iowa ground game?

Or, Always get involved in a ground war in Iowa.

If you want to really appreciate the chaotic nature of the pre-caucus environment in Iowa right now, contemplate the two stories below (both via Hot Air Headlines):

  • People reading the New York Times are being told, effectively, that the ground game race is effectively between the technocratic Mitt Romney and the plucky Rick Santorum (with his 1,000 precinct leaders!), with the weird Ron Paul only still on the board because of the cult-like devotion of his campaign staff.  I’m paraphrasing, mind you, but you can tell that the NYT writes for an audience who considers Mitt Romney the least incomprehensible specimen of that most exotic (and no doubt poison-secreting) species known as Republicans.
  • Meanwhile, people reading CNN are being told that Rick Perry has recruited over 1,500 precinct leaders, covering 95% of the 1,700+ caucuses (some precincts are combined into one location); and that neither Romney’s or Paul’s organizations are ready to give that information out.  Note that the CNN article is not precisely complimentary to Perry in its tone: articles that start with “Even as they grapple with mediocre poll numbers, a gaffe-prone candidate and internal staff feuding…” rarely are.

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