AMERICAblog has a correspondent on the ground in Iowa for the caucuses. Rather than just repeat the old "who's ahead" drivel that we can give you from our own armchairs in DC, our guy on the ground, Marc Laitin, is going to be beaming in his impressions of the overall event. Here is Marc's first report.
Where are all the signs?More from Marc in Iowa after the jump...
Hey all, I just got into Iowa via Davenport an hour ago. I'm going to write a bit more about what I'm going to try and see and do here over the next 48 hours later today, but I wanted to pass along a quick first impression.
Where are all the yard signs?
I've spent a lot of time in cities and states with important elections, and other than Ohio/Florida 2004 I can't think of a place I've been where there has been more at stake than Iowa right now, but for some reason the standard overwhelming yard sign battle appears not to have sprouted up here (at least not in Davenport). I suspect it will be different in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, but maybe not.Marc Laitin is a founder and Principal of Wired for Change, a political technology and strategy consulting firm based in Washington, DC. In 2004 Marc co-founded and directed the Run Against Bush campaign, which organized over 15,000 people in all 50 states to literally run against Bush.
Anyone know what is up with that? Is the fact that only 100-125k Iowans are likely to caucus tomorrow mean that campaigns need to do less mass brand marketing and more direct outreach, or is there something else going on here?
