Skinny is a mish-mash today....

http://www.dmcityview.com/skinny.shtml

Civic Skinny
Some this and some that

The This: It’s certainly nice that Drew Miller, the head of information technology for the state Democratic Party, is a registered voter. But do his bosses know that Miller is a registered Republican?...

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The Barack Obama trip to Des Moines all but guarantees one thing: If Obama is elected President, Iowa’s caucuses will be first-in-the-nation again in 2012, say big-time Dems who usually know what they’re talking about. The party can have all the conferences it wants and listen to all the wailings from other states, these Democrats tell Skinny, but Obama will call the shots, and he’s not going to forget where he got launched.

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Skinny hears the meeting of the Democrats’ Central Committee was more than a little heated when two Culver aides — including chief of staff Jim Larew — tried to defend the governor’s veto of the labor bill. One person who was there says a party bigwig is threatening to cut off party money to Culver in 2012. …

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Obviously much more at the link......

There will once again be the whiners out there who will say "Iowa doesn't represent America" "Iowa is a small state", etc. etc. I say let'em whine. Obama knows indeed where he got his start.

She lost when she had to win to be inevitable so nothing she could do afterwords could make up for it not even the Unrestricted Submarine Warfare to which she later on resorted.