you missed Tom Vilsack’s campaign for president, which will end today.
I don’t know enough about the situation in Iowa to have a good sense of whether this matters much. Vilsack never emerged from the low single-digits in the horserace polls, but one assumes that he had a reasonably well-developed operation in his home state of Iowa that other candidates will quickly try to gobble up. It’ll be interesting to see whether Vilsack himself remains neutral or moves to back someone else.
So. There’s a three-person “top tier” for the Dems: Clinton, Obama, and Edwards. I continue to hope against hope that Bill Richardson can break into that tier and make it a really interesting four-person race. The others — Biden, Kucinich, etc. — are not going anywhere.
It’s pretty early.. I think Edwards shouldn’t be in the top tier and Richardson should. Hopefully as things progress and the election gets broader than the activists who haven’t stopped working since 2004, that will probably happen.
There’s an article in The Nation stating that Vilsack was only in the race to keep influential Iowans uncommitted until Hillary’s campaign was ready to win them over.
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