Happy New Year!
It's really exciting out here in Iowa. The campaign is fired up! The GOTV volunteers are lining up and just doing everything we can to make a strong showing at the caucus. We are going to do well on Thursday, but the most important thing that has already happened here in Iowa is Mitt Romney went from being a unknown candidate nationally... to the only candidate who has a shot at winning every early contest. All the rest of the candidates are still just regional favorites.
This caucus process is completely different than how we'll do things in New York our presidential primary. In New York we have our polling places decided and publicized weeks in advance, the board of elections will send you a "official election mail" notice telling you what party you're registered in and where to go to vote. (Mitt supporters, Don't forget to register if you haven't already done so! Deadline is a few days away.)
In Iowa's caucus, the local political parties are in control of the caucus locations, which can be anywhere from a family's living room to a high school cafeteria. Even in a church. And then as they find out more people are coming than expected, or some other conflict arises, those locations get changed. It takes a real sharp campaign machine to make sure your caucus goers get to the caucus location, and Romney has that infrastructure here to a level nobody on the GOP side can match.
Here was something odd, I noticed in the list of churches that were caucus sites there were a lot of evangelical (Huckabee) churches. That's probably a big help to Huckster, and after his goofball "here's my negative campaign" press conference yesterday, he's going to need it.
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