It's not a real election until Talk Radio says so..
Last week, Elizabeth Warren announced a Presidential Exploration Committee and a high profile visit to Iowa. That’s a game changer right there. The right- leaning local talk station headlines it with a “First Serious Candidate visit” blast. Which was surely news to Cory Booker and others. They also helpfully explained she her visit was mere miles away from Pocahontas County. More insightfully, a local talking head/ former Republican state congressperson said there are three groups of Democrats and those groups are forming around Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Beto O’Rourke so Warren might end on the outside looking in. True enough, maybe, though Warren did speak to packed houses (and a picture of her event in Time magazine looked like a rock concert) so let’s not jump to conclusions. It’s a field of 25 to 40 potential candidates that will likely scatter once some big names get in. In the meantime, the annual Progress Iowa dinner was held in mid December is a nice media m