Newsweek covered my Iowa caucus site!

[CoffeeCat]

What a terrific night this was!

http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/01/03/inside-the-quaint-chaotic-caucuses.aspx#comments

[lpbk2713]

1. WTG

:thumbsup: :hi: :thumbsup:

[Cha]

2. Wow! Two Sparkles!!

You made the big time, girl~ Interesting blog..I know a little bit more about it than before, which was zero.

[CoffeeCat]

3. Hey zidi...

I think that reporter did a pretty good job of covering the caucus.

I hadn't ever read his blog before. He's a pretty good writer and I
like his coverage.

I think I'll keep reading his blog through the election.

Thanks for your nice comments.

:hi:

[Cha]

4. I get it...I think.

That's where you went to caucus.. at the Ankeny High School?

At first I was thinking you wrote that blog but it's Andrew Romano who wrote it about where you caucused, right:)

[CoffeeCat]

5. Right...

As much as I'd love to get paid for blogging for Newsweek, I don't! :)

The blogger, as you said---Andrew Romano--wrote the article about my precinct in Ankeny.

I'm the "30-something, stay-at-home mom" he mentioned.

[Cha]

6. Oh, I was wondering if

you were but for some reason I didn't want to ask. lol. You're immortalized!

[CoffeeCat]

7. LOL...

My 2 seconds of fame that will vanish when someone hits the 'refresh' button! :)

Now, we await the NH results. We've got a long road until November.

I can't even imagine how tired our candidates are.

How do they do it?

[Cha]

8. They're

superhuman or maybe that's why Obama didn't want to take questions tonight in New Hampshire cause he was just too bloody tired.

[kevinbgoode]

9. That's a nice story. . .:-)

And it looks like a great evening of people getting together.

The only thing that bothers me a little bit is this sentence:

"Two days earlier, Hagerty, a Ankeny Democrat who was then "considering several candidates," stopped by an Obama houseparty; her friend, the host, had voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004, so she was intrigued."

I keep reading little tidbits here and there with references to former Bush supporters (and workers) who support Obama. Has ANYONE else seen anything about that? One buddy in another discussion forum told me that at one caucus, a lot of people coming in to participate had never been even seen before in the neighborhood. And here this story references that Man from the South who came up to caucus - was it really that easy?

"Edwards also gained in realignment, thanks to C. Carlyle Steele, a mysterious silver-tongued Southern lawyer in a blue blazer and boots who flew up from South Carolina for the occasion. If only Lyle Lanley were a Richardson fan.

The night's biggest loser? Clinton. Her sourpuss precinct captain, P.J. Yusten, spent most of her speech railing against Steele, an outsider. . ."

Now I know this isn't the right thread to make this statement, but. . .since you are an Iowan, can you tell me if anyone could fly into the state and participate in these caucuses?

[flashl]

10. Congradulations. n/t