Doesn't that sound like the lamest pay per view wrestling match ever?
Anyway Robert Novak does a little play by play of the Gephardt Campaign, which seems to be gaining momentum in Iowa. Of particular note is the following passage.
"Gephardt on the campaign trail could not be more different than Dean. He gives no hint that Sept. 11, 2001, ever happened. He didn't mention terrorism or the Iraq war in Carroll, at a previous stop at Cronk's Cafe in Denison or the night before at the Bluffs Area Family Center in Sergeant Bluff. Nor did anybody ask him about the war during question periods. He does not mention his votes to authorize the war and to finance the occupation.
That silence is not an effort to evade overwhelmingly antiwar sentiment in the pacifist Midwest, charmed by Dean's antiwar rhetoric. Polling data indicates that most Iowans support the war, and that includes many Democrats (such as the scrupulously neutral new state party chairman, Gordon Fischer). To Gephardt, the war never has been foremost in the minds of Iowans. "Politics is all local and personal," he told me after his Carroll appearance, "and people want answers to their problems."
Gephardt might be right; people might really not care about Terrorist threat, and be mostly focused on local domestic issues. Among Iowa Democrats.
But I don't think that attitude persists across the nation, which is where the General Election while be fought.
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