Comments on Today in Presidential Politics; Or, 4 Days Until the Iowa Caucuses

hey maybe you gays at the paper can form a cabal. Call yourselves "I-Owe-A-Cock-Us-Is" not that there's anything wrong with that

Eli, care to comment on your bet with Jenny Durkan regarding Edwards's potential to win Iowa? Every day it looks a little more likely that you're going to be buying Jenny's lunch.

No Iowa predictions, just an observation: This afternoon at the downtown Borders I saw a Hillary Clinton voodoo doll--the perfect gift (as advertised on Faux News!) for the Bible thumping redneck in your life. I did not see any similar items for Edwards, Obama or the other Democrats.

To be fair to Borders, I must note that they also had a George W Bush voodoo doll on sale for the rest of us. I would have bought one except I made my own shortly before the 2004 election. The office manager where I work never did figure out why all those push pins kept disappearing from the bulletin board near where we keep the coffee. Lot of good it did, of course, and I had to use an extra cup of Tide in my washing machine to get the chicken blood out...