Obama Meets With Iowa Advisors For Gore 2000, Kerry 2004

[JABBS]

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[BonnieJW]

1. Kerry advisers??????

You mean like Bob Never Won An Election In My Life Shrum???? Run Barak! Run like the wind!

[zulchzulu]

2. Friends Don't Let Friends Hire Schrum

God help Obama if he even lets Schrum in his office...

[sandnsea]

3. Kerry won Iowa

Duh. He also won more votes than any Democrat in history, a detail too many fail to grasp.

[JABBS]

4. but he didn't win.

[sandnsea]

6. Iowa Advisers

who won the Iowa primary for their candidate with 40% of the vote - are a problem how???

[Deep13]

5. Oh, that's encouraging.

I wonder if Mondale or Dukakis's campaign managers are still available.

[frylock]

7. as someone who lives in a state that has the 6th largest economy on the PLANET..

I've grown sick and damn tired of Iowa and New Hampshire deciding who my presidential candidate is going to be. Primaries need to all be held on one date.

[IA_Seth]

8. Oh, cause that would be fair?

Holding all primaries on one date would reduce the nomination process to airport speeches and TV/Radio ads and would elminate those with less money from gaining traction the way they are able to now in the smaller lead states. The campaigns with less money would be forced to write off large areas of the country to focus their dollars on winning SOMETHING, while the wealthiest candidates would be able to spend money everywhere on TV time.

Reeeeal representative there.

[ripple]

9. I doubt Iowa will decide much of anything this time

Vilsack's candidacy is almost guaranteed to skew the results in Iowa. You make a good point about the overall principle of a couple of states choosing for the rest of us, though. It stinks.

[warrens]

10. As someone who lives in Illinois, which ain't chopped liver

I think the present system is just fine. I like to spend time looking all the candidates over, and they can spend a lot of time in two small states and really get concentrated national coverage. By the time the big primaries come up, you know what your choices are.