Monday, February 12, 2007
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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2:03 PM
Both Hillary and Obama were in Iowa this weekend. At dueling events in the freezing cold - Obama turned out 15,000 to Hillary's 3,000. And this is Iowa - Obama's neighbor state - there is no "curiosity factor" playing into this one.
By my count that's 12,000 MORE recruited volunteers he now has the capacity to tell someone, get them excited, man a phone list, walk a district.
Right now (REMEMBER) it is not about nationalized polling...(Howard Dean was way ahead one year out in 2004.) What it is about is the excitement in the individual states and Iowa is a primary field of play at this stage.
(The "WHY OBAMA" disclaimer... I am officially on the record as having been the first person to predict that Obama will win the nomination and the presidency. I do so based on an extensive past of watching Obama up close in Illinois. It is also my GREAT DESIRE, that I am absolutely smashingly proven wrong.)