It’s all over but the singing. Too bad we have to wait until January for the votes to be counted in Iowa.
Howard Dean met his Waterloo in Iowa, so I decided to go to Cedar Rapids instead. Barrack Obama and John Edwards both went to Waterloo. A lot of good it did them. The Des Moines Register released their latest poll the other day. Clinton over Edwards and Obama in Iowa.
On plan. On schedule.
If you want to hear a fat lady sing, come to Iowa in January. If you can’t make it, don’t worry. Opportunities abound. There will be a fat lady singing in New Hampshire and South Carolina, too. She’s booked for two more songs right after the primary elections in New York and California on February 5th.
On plan. On schedule.
Florida and Michigan have me worried. Bill says it won’t matter. Iowa and New Hampshire run these rinky dink little votes far in advance of real states. It makes them feel important. Candidates like both states because it doesn’t cost much to campaign in either. Both are colder than hell in January.
The problem is that other states want to feel important and have some impact in a presidential race and gather a few million in campaign spending. Florida and Michigan moved their primary election to January just to get under the spotlight, so the DNC stripped them of their delegates and Democratic presidential candidates won’t campaign in either state. It serves them right.
Besides, Florida and Michigan both have so many near-deaf retirees that we have to run four television commercials to every one we would run in California or New York just to get across the same message.
I’m not a near-deaf retiree, so I have heard what has been said. If I have spend a couple of grand just to hear what the Democratic candidates have to say, since they have chosen not to speak to the masses per the DNC, I will vote for any other candidate than a Democrat.