Iowa Caucus Guy's 2024 Blog

  I write about the fun of the Iowa Caucus and as you may have noticed, the fun (like the candidates) is dwindling School board elections saw a big loss for the Moms of Liberty in Des Moines (of course) the progressive suburbs(probably) the rich suburbs (surprise), the rural counties (shock) and even Western Iowa (say what).  It’s    still early, so I don’t feel like I have heard a lot of buzz.    If there is any buzz, it’s been around Ron DeSantis who is seemingly so far away at Trump at this point, I’m not sure it matters.  On the TV front, Trump is attacking DeSantis (the presumable second place candidate) and DeSantis attacking Haley (presuming attacking Trump won’t move any needles.) Vivek Ramaswamy is running ads which are like him, perhaps the most dynamic of the campaign. In it, he attacks politicians while a variety of bipartisan images of run behind him.  Fox News reports: Republican presidential candidate  Vivek Ramaswamy  is ...

  This is the blog that points out the weird and wonderful in the Iowa caucus race  Last week, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported on the candidate’s expenses and campaign expenses are truly the weird and wonderful.  What a limousine ridin' jet flyin' son of a gun might look like This post is pulled from that article which reported on campaign spending for the third quarter of the year.  Ryan Binkley- $3,25x,xxx I have been predicting a Binkley breakthrough for awhile, but we will see the size of that breakthrough. The three million spent in this quarter dwarves the field but Binkley is all in on Iowa to make a name for himself. Binkley is largely funding the campaign.  Money is being split between campaign ads and campaign gear. Binkley has been known to give hats away everywhere he goes, to get his name out there. He also has donated to the Family Leader- the Iowa Conservative think tank and wannabe caucus kingmaker.  Donald Trump - $217,xxx Trump visited ...