Clinton supporter Strickland says Iowa role makes no sense

[BeyondGeography]

Prominent Clinton supporter criticizes Iowa

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (CNN) – Just days before the Iowa caucuses, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter criticized the state’s privileged role in the presidential nominating process, forcing her campaign to declare that she did not agree with the assessment.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland was quoted in Sunday’s edition of The Columbus Dispatch as saying that it “makes no sense” to grant Iowa the right to hold the first contest of the 2008 race for the White House.

"I'd like to see both parties say, 'We're going to bring this to an end,'" Strickland told the newspaper.

Competing campaigns seized on the article and emailed it around to reporters to highlight Strickland’s comments late Sunday night. The Clinton campaign moved quickly, and issued a statement shortly after midnight distancing the New York senator from the governor’s remarks.

“Senator Clinton has worked her heart out campaigning in Iowa because she knows it plays a unique and special role in the nominating process and that process must be protected,” read the statement. “As she has said many times she is glad Iowans are entrusted with this responsibility because they take it so seriously. On this issue Hillary and Gov. Strickland strongly disagree.”

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/12/30/prominent-clinton-supporter-criticizes-iowa-2/#more-4074

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. You Better Hope That Sticks Because Zogby Said Obama Polled In The Low Twenties On Sunday

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[BeyondGeography]

3. Wow...sounds like we're screwn

:eyes:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. You Need To Follow The Lead Of Your Candidate And Bash John Edwards

It looks like he's about to piss in your New Years Eve punch....

[BeyondGeography]

7. Sounds like someone already pissed in yours

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. No- I Made Sure You Relieved Yourself Before You Came Over

How do you like my new tagline...

[BeyondGeography]

9. It's strange...like your behavior here this morning

Edwards is all emotion, Hillary is all calculation.

You might need to have your head examined, or your heart.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. How Is My Behavior Strange?

I come here and see Hillary getting bashed...It's a pattern...I bash back...It's Pavlovian...I admit it...The reptilian brain kicks in...

I liked HRC because Bill Clinton was really the only Democratic president I knew as an adult...I also admire her grit...But if she can't win then I prefer to see the most electable Democrat, imho, get the nomination...Plus JRE realizes who the enemy is...The red-blue divide is real and red state thinkers need to be brought to heel like they were at Appomattox...

[Gman]

2. With a mere 57 delegate votes

it makes no sense to give Iowa the weight it has.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. We All Know That But We Have To Pretend It's Fair They Go First Every Time

What's the rationale?

[BeyondGeography]

5. He's not alone in this view...but there's a time and a place for everything

[DU9598]

14. In defense

Other states had every opportunity to be in Iowa's position. They didn't do the hard work to build the process that the Iowa Democratic Party has done. Now that we have a great position, it gets old that others think they have the infrastructure to just magically appear at the top. Other states can invest in going sooner in the process or coordinating with regional parties, but no individual state could build what Iowa has built up.

[sniffa]

10. STREISAND ATTACKS

[Lerkfish]

11. someone is preemptively trying to soften the blow.

I do think

[Bluzmann57]

13. Yawn.

Maybe Strickland should go back to Ohio and straighten out the numerous voting irregularities in that state. Very few people here care what he thinks.