Iowa Isn’t That Important, Clinton Staffers Say

[sabra]

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/01/04/iowa-isnt-that-important-clinton-staffers-say/

ON BOARD THE CLINTON PLANE — After pouring millions of dollars and nearly a year of effort into a win in Iowa, senior staffers for Democrat Hillary Clinton now say the state isn’t that important after all.

“The worst thing would be to over count Iowa and its importance,” said chief strategist Mark Penn, just hours after the New York senator finished in a disappointing third place, behind Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.

“Iowa doesn’t have a record of picking presidents. We’re in a strong position to move forward,” Penn told a handful of reporters on board a chartered midnight flight that took Clinton staffers and such high-level supporters such as former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright from Des Moines, Iowa, to Manchester, N.H.

That contradicts the huge gravitas Clinton put on the Iowa caucus in her recent stump speeches, evoking the process as a democratic gift in the wake of Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s death.

“The Iowa caucuses are such a unique part of American democracy. I am so impressed at how seriously everyone here in Iowa takes it,” she said at a recent event in Clarion. Iowans caucus for “our hopes and the possibilities America should have again.”

[bryant69]

1. That was predictable

Still given that Bill Clinton lost Iowa and New Hampshire, I suppose there's precedent.

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[ccpup]

2. they're right

Clinton lost Iowa in 1992 and did fine, and there are others who lost Iowa and still went on to win the Nomination.

One doesn't win the race in the first inning.

[spanone]

3. reminds me of Spinal Tap....when their boston show canceled mgmt. said it's not a big college town.

[beberocks]

4. Very true--Iowa is not that important

Since all this hoopla is based on the votes of all of 220 people, and Obama stacked the deck with all the college students who reside in other states (but attend college in Iowa and voted there), the Iowa results mean NOTHING! I'm a Californian who is tired of not having a say in who the Dem nominee should be.

[madrchsod]

6. it`s important to the people who went out and voted

but of course they don`t count...

[madrchsod]

5. oh that`s nice

i hope those over 65 voters feel real proud they voted for someone who just said their votes were no big deal...thanks suckers!

so remember voters of new hampshire if you vote for hillary and she loses well you people do`t count anyway....


...the edwards and obama crews want to thank you for their talking points mr penn...

[Romulox]

7. "There is no danger that HRC will sink. HRC is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience

will be suffered by her bundlers!"

:rofl: