You Are in I-O-Way

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!

Tings is heating up, mon. (To radically switch cultural references.)

Looks like a tightening three-way race in Iowa. Or something. Dean seems to have lost his Big Mo. Boring candidates are right on his heals. Yawn.

The interesting thing is Clark's rise in the polls in New Hampshire with his simultaneous sowing of seeds of his own self-destruction there. (He skipped Iowa to concentrate on NH.) Clark is a truly terrible candidate. I don't mean that he'd make a poor president; I happen to think that he would but that's not my point here. I mean he's just a lousy candidate. Kooky. Makes Dean look presidential. Kucinich could conceivably roll his eyes at Clark's statements. He's not even looking like a viable VP at this point. Mary, help!

It appears Iowa and New Hampshire will come and go leaving no obvious front-runner. That's a bit surprising given Dean's last 4 months or so. (By the way, don't hold me to that.)

Update: Oops, that's a four-way heat. Although I don't see, given Gephardt's low poll numbers in NH, how he has any chance there regardless of how well he does in Iowa. Anyway.

I'll have the beers ready by the TV tonight to watch the results by. It's like the NFL play-offs for us news junkies (and no pre-emption of The Simpsons too).