One of the only "advantages" to having registered as an Independent when I moved to Iowa in 2008 was that my landline is getting the workout of its life.
The past few days it has been ringing off the hook with calls from pollsters and hyper-cheery or super scary messengers from various campaigns.
Marcus is leaving a message as I type this.
While I've decided to do the right (to me) thing and officially register as the Yellow Dawg Democrat that I am so I can attend my caucus, I will admit it is not beneath me to mess with their polls by providing the most nonsensical preference answers I am able to imagine (sorry, PPP) when those come in.
Yesterday, or maybe the day before (it's all a big blur here in Iowa right now) I got to join in an unscheduled Newt Gingrich teleconference and was oh-so-ready with a question I thought might get past the screeners. Because so much of the call was about the negative onslaught the poor dear had endured at the hands of anonymous SuperPacs, I wanted to ask him about activist Judges and whether he might consider arresting Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, etc for their Citizens United ruling and then remind him of some of the things he had encouraged fellow Republicans to call Democrats, like "treasonous" that made him the undisputed Godfather of Negativity.
Lo, I never made it through the queue, and simply got to listen to a lot of whining and lies about the Keystone Pipeline.
About an hour ago the call I was worried would never come, in direct response to the latest amazing phenomena, as Philly.com bluntly put it "Santorum Surges From Behind" finally came.
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Because it may fly too far below the radar to break through to the MSM at this late date, I transcribed below the squiggle to share with my Kos Brothers and Sisters.
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