DISQUS

In my Des Moines Precinct... In my precinct in Des Moines, I'm the precinct captain for Obama.  I went outside Obama's campaign to reach out to the Richardson campaign's precinct captain here. 

We've agreed to boost each other's group to increase either viability or to give the other the extra delegate.  For example, if the Obama group needs 6 extra people for an extra delegate and the Richardson crew has 10 more people than they need, then they will give us those 6 extra people. 

Not sure if this is happening in other precincts.

Boo Hoo... Quit your bellyaching, America.  If you had a caucus system, there would be no Republican party.  It's such a great party building exercise that you'll be thanking us for delivering our state for President Obama after we created 50,000 new activists here. 

A national primary would discourage party building in battleground states like Iowa and New Hampshire.  The caucus system works, so get over it.

One JJ story... One aside... prior to the Jefferson Jackson dinner, my wife and I were driving around trying to find a place to park in front of Vets auditorium.  We have twin toddler boys, and forgot our stroller, so we wanted to park in the designated Hillary parking lot across the street.  We explained our situation to the volunteer staffing the entrance to the lot, and she did everything in her power to stop us from parking there, so we ended up parking 7 blocks away, cursing Hillary's name the whole way.  Maybe that's unfair, but that one act fired us up enough to begin volunteering on a more regular basis for Obama.

I have a Hard time believing... I have a hard time believing that Hillary doesn't call individual Iowans, and I think that this whole "she doesn't understand Iowa" thing is a tad overblown.  I think it's one explanation, but it's not THE explanation.

I'm not a Hillary supporter by any means, in fact, she's probably my fourth choice, but I have serious doubts that she doesn't have a call list of like 1000 people that travels with her in her HILLacopter.  Teresa Vilmain and most of HRC's staff have been around the block in Iowa, so they know what to expect. 

I do agree that she's a bit out of touch with the process, the lack of media access, etc., but I would be shocked if she didn't call average voters personally.