Iowa Caucus Guy’s Presidential Election Blog

  I write about the fun of the Iowa Caucus and as you may have noticed, the fun (like the candidates) is dwindling School board elections saw a big loss for the Moms of Liberty in Des Moines (of course) the progressive suburbs(probably) the rich suburbs (surprise), the rural counties (shock) and even Western Iowa (say what).  It’s    still early, so I don’t feel like I have heard a lot of buzz.    If there is any buzz, it’s been around Ron DeSantis who is seemingly so far away at Trump at this point, I’m not sure it matters.  On the TV front, Trump is attacking DeSantis (the presumable second place candidate) and DeSantis attacking Haley (presuming attacking Trump won’t move any needles.) Vivek Ramaswamy is running ads which are like him, perhaps the most dynamic of the campaign. In it, he attacks politicians while a variety of bipartisan images of run behind him.  Fox News reports: Republican presidential candidate  Vivek Ramaswamy  is ...

  This is the blog that points out the weird and wonderful in the Iowa caucus race  Last week, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported on the candidate’s expenses and campaign expenses are truly the weird and wonderful.  What a limousine ridin' jet flyin' son of a gun might look like This post is pulled from that article which reported on campaign spending for the third quarter of the year.  Ryan Binkley- $3,25x,xxx I have been predicting a Binkley breakthrough for awhile, but we will see the size of that breakthrough. The three million spent in this quarter dwarves the field but Binkley is all in on Iowa to make a name for himself. Binkley is largely funding the campaign.  Money is being split between campaign ads and campaign gear. Binkley has been known to give hats away everywhere he goes, to get his name out there. He also has donated to the Family Leader- the Iowa Conservative think tank and wannabe caucus kingmaker.  Donald Trump - $217,xxx Trump visited ...

I like to blog about the funny and weird parts of the Iowa Caucus campaign.  My last post had mentioned the Lincoln Dinner held in Des Moines in July. There have been several notable “viral” moments but this may be the one that caused the most buzz.  The Huffington Post reported: Former President Donald Trump faced the music at a campaign event in Iowa ― and the irony was off the charts. As Trump took the stage, the song lyric “one could end up going to prison, one just might be president” played from Brooks & Dunn’s “Only in America.” Trump pumped his fist after “prison” but probably wasn’t hearing the words. News outlets reported that the dozen candidates who spoke to the crowd all walked out to snippets of the same song.  Armchair pundits postulated that it surely wasn’t an accident.  Politico reported: - that it could have been a retaliation to a then recent verbal attack by Trump on Gov. Kim Reynolds (Reynolds had been a shortlist Veep candidate on most pund...

  For some time now, I have written about the primary elections in the US There are plenty of places to read serious political discussion but that’s not what I do.  I don’t love politics, but what I do love is those early days of an election where every is patriotic, everyone is hopeful and the problems of the world look solvable.  It is those times where even the most obscurest of politicians feel the call to help their country.  You can blame Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Pete Buttigieg among others who actually went from obscurity to national headlines.  But, those are the exceptions. Only a real election historian is likely to remember Wayne Messam, Rubin Askew, Alan Cranston, Gary Bauer, Fred Karger, Carol Mosley Braun, and Arlen Specter to name a few.  For the 2024 cycle, I haven’t been able to be timely- so I have been cherry picking the most interesting things to write about.  It is for that reason, that I haven’t gotten around to writing abou...