Anything's Possible

What Democratic candidate can play to a stadium of 10,000 fans?
Donald Trump did that in Iowa and he does it routinely, once or twice a week every week.
Meanwhile, here in Hampton, New Hampshire, we go door to door and we're lucky if 9 out of 40 houses on our list open the door to us to even hear the pitch.

It's the ants working on their colony getting swept away by the big wave, every week.


But here is the Des Moines Register:

For those Iowa Republicans, the high-profile backing could boost their support among some Republican voters. But it may make no difference to those crucial independent voters or even hurt support for the candidates among them.

A recent Iowa Poll found that 52 percent of Republican voters and 48 percent of independent voters say candidates' support for the president would make no difference to them; 39 percent of independents say a candidate's support for Trump would make them less likely to vote for the candidate.

In Young's 3rd Congressional District, where the Republican incumbent faces a tight race against Democrat Cindy Axne and 61 percent of Iowans view the president unfavorably, the numbers are even starker. Among likely voters, 46 percent say if a candidate supports Trump, that would be a mark against them.

Who knows? Maybe, if we're lucky, there is something going on we do not see on CSPAN every night.