Setting the bar very, very, high, Tommy Thompson's campaign manager emailed supporters yesterday: "Tommy Thompson has made it clear that if he doesn’t finish first or second this week in Ames, Iowa at the straw poll, he will not go on in this race." A University of Iowa poll released Wednesday showed the former Wisconsin governor with 2.4 percent support, so perhaps his best hope for second place is if people confuse him with Tom Tancredo or Fred Thompson.
At Bleeding Heartland, Chris Woods talks about caucus date leapfrog and says stick to your guns, Iowa:
The penalty Florida faces is basically a preliminary wrist-slap that says "we won't seat your delegates at the DNC Convention next August." The thing is, whomever has the nomination is going to demand Florida's delegates be seated--for all practical purposes the nominee trumps the existing DNC chair and will dictate from that point on what will happen.
However, last August the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee hammered out their new rules which would again penalize state parties as mentioned above, but also penalize candidates who campaigned in early states.
So what I'm looking for on August 25th in DC is for Iowa's Democratic representative on the Rules and Bylaws Committee, First Vice Chair Sarah Swisher, to stand up and demand that Florida get their slap on the wrist as well as get a statement from the committee reaffirming its commitment that should any candidate campaign in Florida that they should be penalized.
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