Iowa Caucus Guy’s Presidential Election Blog

I have been interested in politics seemingly since birth. I write about it periodically like a groundhog seeing his shadow, I see it is that time again. Over the years, I have tried to keep my analysis and observation light and put a positive nonpartisan spin. I don’t always do that but I am going to try, and what a better way to show that lack of bias than with a post about Winners and Losers in the recent GOP Iowa Caucus race. So let's jump in.  Vivek Ramaswamy : Winner   The Entrepreneur got a lot of headlines for saying the voting age should be 25. Though he did say if someone served in the military, they could start voting at 18. I am undecided if this is a good idea or even a good recruiting tactic, but in a race with a lot bigger names and being an unknown, he got headlines and got his name out there and for that he is a winner. Doug Burgum : Winner  The North Dakota governor wasn’t even the most likely person from the Dakotas to win the Nomination but he’s thrown his h

The “first in the nation” Iowa Democratic Caucus is dead. Much will be written about it. Or probably won’t. Most Iowa Democrats seem to be signing a sense of relief. The kind of relief that comes when cities are glad they don’t have to host the Olympic Games. I find it bizarre and counter to my beliefs, but I am one person and I have no real skin in the game. I should have seen it coming, of course. But even if I was too enamored of the process, I knew things were in trouble on Caucus Night. The face of the local NBC affiliate newscast, Dan Winters looked annoyed, even angry. It was clear that things weren’t going to be tidy and everyone was going to be in bad before 10:00. I am not sure why Winters looked so physically agitated, but surely him or the producers or whoever could have guessed that they might be there all night. Even if everything went smoothly. (Winters, as good as a local talking head as any I have ever seen, retired in 2022, after 18 years in the busin