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Iowa Death Trip: Will It Ever End?

Steve Perry: Idle Sunday thoughts on what the Democrats have learned in Iowa

1) There is real electoral gold in going after the Bush gang directly and lustily. It already should have been evident from the successes of Howard Dean, but these people are extraordinarily slow to learn and predisposed to stick to the Republican Lite script. Iowa should demonstrate to anyone paying attention that anti-Bush sentiment runs broader and deeper than our pols and pundits have yet recognized.

2) Even though Wesley Clark's is clearly the ascendant Get-Dean candidacy in the eyes of establishment Democrats, John Edwards could easily leave Iowa contending with Clark for that mantle. (Kerry will have a harder time doing so even if he wins Iowa; the party tried to hand him the nomination on a platter at the outset, and he only dribbled it down the front of his shirt.) If Edwards performs well in Iowa--and I really think he might top Kerry's finish--look for Wes the Shark to start splitting his attentions between Dean and Edwards. 

Posted by Steve Perry at January 18, 2004 12:30 PM

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