Vilsack Has A List, Obama Has A Rally

Vilsack Has A List

An interesting tactic: Vilsack publishes a list of 1159 Iowa committments. The list geek in me loves it but I don't have time to dig into the whole thing; it's Obama Day (hence the timing, Tom?) and it's what we in Johnson County call Hy-Vee Saturday. Six early voting sites for Tuesday's SILO election.

But I had time for a quick look. The gems of the list are the Harkins of Cumming; Secretary of State Mike Mauro is listed too, as is one of his predecessors, Elaine Baxter. The name Culver is absent... no Tom Miler... no Fitzgeralds... no Blouins... Look, here's Gordon... seeing a lot of Mount Pleasant here... Cacciatore... Gene Fraise...

Here's the eastern Iowa names I'm recognizing:

Cedar Rapids Mayor Kay Halloran

Former state senator Jean Lloyd-Jones of Iowa City (1992 US Senate nominee)

Former Linn County Supervisor Ken Perry

Anyway, if someone doesn't beat me to it (oops, looks like Iowa Progress already has) I'll do a deeper analysis later. Maybe after Tuesday...

Speaking of lists and SILO, they ran a several-hundred name list of supporters on a full page of the Press-Citizen yesterday... and on the left Joe Bolkcom's name is on it plus a mention in his newsletter.

Ans speaking of Obama, his site's got live video of the announcement. I'm not sure if my coverage is live or pseudo-live yet. Gazette has a teaser:

"The Obama campaign would like to do a living room campaign", said Steve Sovern of North Liberty, who will introduce Obama. (Deeth notes: Sovern=prominent area attorney, former congressional candidate) "They know it'll just have to be a larger living room."