The Hawkeye Cauci

Well, you can hold your head high Ma, Iowa did not go for Ron Paul and his Paul-natics. The new McCain beat the new Huckabee by 8 votes. Sauron, Lord of Mordor came in 3rd and the caricature of Newt Gingrich 4th. Soon to be also rans Perry, Bachmann, and Huntsman got participation ribbons. I am dying to know how it went Mom. Also Katie was a poll watcher in Council Bluffs and I want to know how that went. Ma, yell at Katie and have her post about her experiences and let us know how yours was.

Update: I am now reading my morning political stuff. The Morning Jolt summarizes Bachmann this way:

The Hawkeye State killed off the chances of a perfectly good candidate, Tim Pawlenty, in favor of his Minnesota rival Michele Bachmann, only to drop her like seventh-period Spanish by the time the actual caucuses rolled around. The caucuses weren't even over when the Fox News Decision Desk could project, with confidence, that she would finish sixth out of six major candidates in the caucus. As of this writing, she is set to finish 5 percentage points ahead of Jon Huntsman, who effectively conceded the state. Put another way, she finished 6 percentage points ahead of you and me, and we didn't even run.