Go North

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If you’re a Democrat and you’re from Missouri, go north on September 14th to Indianola, Iowa for the 37th annual (and last) Harkin Steak Fry. You’ll meet lots of like minded folks (we’ll be there), you’ll partake of an excellent feed, and you’ll have an opportunity to see and hear Hillary and Bill Clinton. There’s the added benefit of watching a vast herd of national media stampeding all over the place in their desperation to confirm and contribute to the conventional wisdom. If that ain’t an excuse for a one day road trip I don’t know what else is.

Then Senator Hillary Clinton at the Harkin Steak Fry in Indianola, Iowa – September 16, 2007 [file photo].

Ed Kilgore has a thing or two to say about the times:

The Irresistible Duopoly Of Iowa And New Hampshire

We are slipping up on another presidential election cycle, and once again, threats that Democrats and Republicans would come together to deny Iowa and New Hampshire their irrationally privileged position in the nominating process have come to naught. Aside from having long passed the window for national rules changes, with nothing happening that in any way endangered the duopoly, it’s now getting a bit late for potential candidates to make their initial pay-the-dues appearances in the town halls and potlucks of these two not-exactly-typical states….

….Meanwhile the Democratic contest moves into a full-fledged Invisible Caucus phase less than two weeks from now, when Hil and Bill Clinton headline the 37th (and final) Tom Harkin Steak Fry in – of course – Indianola, Iowa.

What’s most interesting this year, though, is the extent to which national political people have excuses for spending extra time and money in Iowa and New Hampshire….