John Nichols- Six Ways Iowa Progressives Will Caucus Tuesday
Six Ways Iowa Progressives Will Caucus
John Nichols on January 3, 2012 - 12:04am ET
Mickey Davis is a smart, politically engaged progressive Iowan with lots of opinions about the presidential race.
And, like a lot of Iowa progressives, he will be caucusing on Tuesday night.
“Of course, I’ll caucus,” says Davis, as he pauses in a Des Moines coffee shop. Flashing his forearm tattoo of a map of the Hawkeye state, he explains, “We’re Iowans. We caucus.”
But what is the point of progressives caucusing on Tuesday?
Actually, there are a lot of points to be made, even if most of the media is missing them.The Republicans who are competing to be the candidate of the 1 Percent will get 99 Percent of the media attention that is devoted to the Iowa caucuses. But some of the most exciting activity with regard to the caucuses is not on the right, it’s on the left.
Iowa progressives are organizing on a variety of fronts to raise issues, upset expectations and challenge the Republican and Democratic game plans for Tuesday night.
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