C-Span is streaming Jeb Bush's tortured walk through the Iowa State Fairgrounds and the network is taking calls, too. Some of them, mostly from conservatives, make one fear for democracy. "We don't need no minimum wage," said one caller, 'ceptin "them illegals is takin' our jobs." Another lamented this "severe depression" we're going through.
Thus we can see — in this case, hear — why Trump is leading in Iowa.
There's also this, from the Post's Rucker and Costa's "An Iowa surprise: Donald Trump is actually trying to win": The Donald's Iowa team consists of "10 paid operatives," and the number is "growing." Jeb Bush has nine staffers in Iowa; Scott Walker has four. Continues the Post:
The Trump campaign is targeting voters who may not have participated in a caucus before, modeling its strategy on Barack Obama’s 2008 Iowa campaign, which mobilized tens of thousands of new caucus-goers.
"We’re reaching people that the Republican apparatus doesn’t even know exist," [said Trump's Iowa organizer]. "The other day, one woman came up to say, 'Hello, a lifelong Iowan.' Her first question to us was 'What’s a caucus?' After we told her, she wanted to help…. Politics has not been the biggest thing in a lot of these people’s lives. They’ve got lots of stuff going on with their jobs or families. But they feel Donald Trump is what this country needs."
Well, he is at least what the GOP deserves.