Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Le Shorter: It's a Horse Race

As I thought, Iowans are equally divided within statistically insignificant percentages between the three Democratic front runners. The caucus process is truly a unique American form of democracy where the persuasive abilities of your neighbors count almost as much as those of the various politicians they support. The confession by a Grinnell College sophomore that policy wonk Hillary did not know enough about her competitors' health care proposals to take unscripted questions from the audience will not go down well with the dour farm folks.