[Grunthor]

I’m glad to see someone else looking at the Iowa Straw poll.
My feel on it is this; the top five in that poll stay in the race, the rest drop out for the good of the party. What do you think? I would add that in the next two states, the person coming in last place in each, drops out successively for the same reason.

[SittinYonder]

My feel on it is this; the top five in that poll stay in the race, the rest drop out for the good of the party.

I think each candidate makes that decision themselves. The straw poll is a long way to the caucus, and I don't know that anybody would or should drop out based solely upon the poll.

Now, they might find that coming in last in the straw poll kills fundraising and it's not their decision to make anymore.

Personally, I'd like to see all the candidates stay in until the Convention and let the delegates sort it out.

I hate this situation where we've frontloaded the primaries.

I do think the straw poll will help people decide which way to direct their donations, though.