6 things to watch at Iowa's 'Growth and Opportunity Party'

[brooklynite]

USA Today:

During the Iowa State Fair, the Varied Industries Building is an indoor mall jam-packed with booths displaying hot tubs, adjustable beds, kitchen cutlery, life-size handcrafted palm trees and gutter protection systems.

The exhibitors Saturday will be Republican White House hopefuls, selling themselves.

The last big field-wide Republican cattle call before the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses will be a fall festival of politics, with a Soapbox-like stage ringed by candidate booths featuring kids’ games, free cotton candy and TVs for football watching.

Three days after the third Republican debate and 93 days before Iowa leads the nation in kicking off presidential voting, the Republican Party of Iowa’s “Growth and Opportunity Party” event will give caucusgoers the chance to hear 10 candidates speak and to stop by their booths for a personal conversation.

My wife and I will be attending (undercover). We're both over 50 and white, so we should blend right in.

[leftofcool]

1. I wish I was going undercover to this. What a hoot!

[brooklynite]

2. "The National Rifle Association will have a sweepstakes for a Browning BPS 12-gauge shotgun..."

sigh.