Iowa's already a whistle-stop for 2008 race

[davidinalameda]

http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/14132633p-14961576c.html

With just over 1,000 days remaining until Americans elect a new president, Iowa is producing a bumper crop of presidential wannabes - all of whom are working hard not to look like presidential wannabes.

Noncandidates abound.

Mike Huckabee, the Republican governor from Arkansas, ate chili with 150 Iowans in a high school cafeteria in Sioux Center on Jan. 16, marking his sixth visit. Four days later, Mitt Romney, the Republican governor from Massachusetts, showed up to raise cash in Council Bluffs, marking his fourth visit. And John Edwards, the former North Carolina Democratic senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate, will make his fifth visit Feb. 25, going to Davenport to give a speech on poverty.


"It blows my mind. We just happen to be in a position of being first," said JoAnn Huygens, 69, a retired teacher from Hospers.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

1. You can't walk around Iowa

without running into 412 rabid fucking presidential candidates, even 3 YEARS BEFORE THE GODDAMN ELECTION. Maybe if politicians (if all stripes) would back away from the campaigning and start doing their fucking jobs, this country wouldn't be so screwed up. It's possible for some politicians to spend more than 50% of their time campaigning and raising money instead of doing the job they were elected to do.

Oh yea, and it's also ridiculous that people in Iowa and New Hampshire have so much control over MY presidential candidate.