WHAT TROUBLE? CLINTON HAS EARLY LOCK ON IOWA CAUCUS, QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY POLL FINDS

[MADem]

72. "Sometimes though, it ain't what you think at first glance."

I came into this conversation after "All American" was changed to "athletic" and I think you might be trying too hard to make an inference of religious bigotry when that wasn't the intent.

Senator Sanders looks like a bookish academic, a guy who might be more comfortable in a classroom than in a corn field. I can't picture him in jeans (mom or otherwise) or a barn coat. I can't imagine him in a pair of sneakers or wellies. He wears loafers.

Despite the fact that VT has lots of farms and he represents farmers, I've never seen him not wearing a suit. He might take off the jacket on a hot day, even remove the tie, but even in his "casual" photos, he's wearing a dress shirt, often button down, and dress pants and those loafers. I've also never seen him toting a gun, and those are the kinds of things that they like to see in Iowa, especially in the male candidates that run around at that way (remember Kerry going pheasant hunting? Obama in his "mom" jeans doing target practice?). Women do seem to get a pass if they want one (Palin gleefully did not--not that it helped her ticket in the big picture), sexual stereotyping is alive and well, apparently.




HRC has been to Iowa a lot. She listens to people when they talk to her. She's a known quantity. She has a solid organization on the ground there. She's got a husband who looks like he fits in with those folks (and, let's be clear--by "those folks" I mean "those folks who live in a predominantly RURAL state). I think she's got a barn coat in the back of her closet, too.

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