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Not much to blog about today, so I’ll bring up something I bookmarked and forgot to post. If anyone has any questions why Iowa should be first forever, I’ll let Kay Henderson answer them:

At this point in the 2004 election cycle, 2000 vice presidential nominee Joe Lieberman was running ahead in public opinion polls, but Lieberman dropped out of the race a few months before the Iowa Caucuses because he wasn’t getting the backing of hard-core party activists who prove crucial in early states like Iowa.

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