[upsdriver]

Winning Iowa is way overrated.

[onyx]

Yes, but not if Sarah wins Iowa!!

[SF_Redux]

” Winning Iowa.”

that is code to the masses of talking heads as who they want to send to white house

[MBB1984]

Maybe, but if Huckster wins it and Romney wins NH, Huckster would have a good chance of winning in SC. At that point it would look like a Huckster v. Romney race with Palin out. If Romney then wins FL, it may be over.

Huckster may be Romney's stalking horse and Romney's VP nominee.

[stockpirate]

Winning Iowa is important to liberals on both sides because it is a liberal state, controlled by a liberal press.

[dangus]

You said it.

Ronald Reagan won the Iowa Caucuses in 1976, not 1980;
George Bush won the Iowa Caucuses in 1980, not 1988.
Bob Dole won the Iowa Caucuses in 1988 by a much larger margin than he won in 1996.

Come to think of it, the guys who win the Iowa Caucuses tend to lose the nomination a lot, but go on in subsequent years to do much better.

[The Shrew]

Winning Iowa is way overrated.

This is my early morning candidate for post of the day!

Huckabee has as much chance of being president and/or deciding who will be president of the United States as I do of playing in the NBA. This is more of Myth's attempt to establish the King Makers - who will make him King.

How can we expect politics to be different when we keep re-using the same old script. Meredith Wilson sums up Iowa pretty well. Do we really want to continue to let these people decide who our president will be?

Iowa Stubborn:

Music: Meredith Willson
Lyrics: Meredith Willson
Book: Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey
Premiere: Thursday, December 19, 1957

Townspeople:
Oh, there's nothing halfway
About the Iowa way to treat you,
When we treat you
Which we may not do at all.
There's an Iowa kind of special
Chip-on-the-shoulder attitude.
We've never been without.
That we recall.
We can be cold
As our falling thermometers in December
If you ask about our weather in July.
And we're so by God stubborn
We could stand touchin' noses
For a week at a time
And never see eye-to-eye.
But what the heck, you're welcome,
Join us at the picnic.
You can eat your fill
Of all the food you bring yourself.
You really ought to give Iowa a try.
Provided you are contrary,
We can be cold
As our falling thermometer in December
If you ask about our weather in July.
And we're so by God stubborn
We can stand touchin' noses
For a week at a time
And never see eye-to-eye. But we'll give you our shirt
And a back to go with it
If your crops should happen to die.

Farmer:
So, what the heck, you're welcome,
Glad to have you with us.

Farmer and Wife:
Even though we may not ever mention it again.

Townspeople:
You really ought to give Iowa
Hawkeye Iowa
Dubuque, Des
Moines, Davenport, Marshalltown,
Mason City, Keokuk, Ames,
Clear Lake
Ought to give Iowa a try!

We tried Iowa and the gave us Obama. Enough said.

TS