Posted on 01/27/2016 4:14:37 AM PST by Biggirl
The gloves are coming off in Iowa, as the leading candidates in both parties battle fiercely for advantage before Monday’s caucuses. Tensions are rising on the Democratic side, with Hillary Clinton’s team trying to rebuff the advance of a newly aggressive Bernie Sanders. Among Republicans, the long-standing “bromance†between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz has given way to open hostilities.
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I have been a political junkie since the days when I hired a TV repair guy to run a new cable so I could see the lone TV from the kitchen back in the “Watergate” days,, but I am absolutely SICK of the ads, the mail and the phone calls. I anxiously await the seedcorn and herbicide commercials that will miraculously turn up on my TV on Feb. 2.
I bet the phones are ringing off the hook too, with push polls and other manipulative traffic.
The calls are mostly robo calls talking up individual candidates,, with a few polls trying to get us to indicate who we will caucus for. I am still undecided. I will analyze the final polls and figure out what I need to do.
Vote your conscience. I often no-vote, or pull for a candidate that has no prayer of winning the election. It's just one vote!
I don’t usually answer the home phone but I made the mistake of doing so one evening last week. It was a poll and the young woman on the phone asked if I was in a safe place to answer some questions. She then absolutely mispronounced caucus and I asked her to repeat what she said and she mispronounced it again—and badly. I gave her some advice which I am sure she found helpful and hung up. I really do not have any confidence in the polling.
Take heart; the Iowa Power Farming Show will be in downtown Des Mones in a couple of weeks.
A sure sign the politicians and media have left Iowa! Yeah!
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