Iowa!

 As usual, Iowa's caucus system scrambled the candidates in ways that may turn out to be meaningless.  On the Republican side, the nastiest snake won (Ted Cruz), Trump survived and Marco Rubio did well enough  to give himself a shot at the nomination. To me, Rubio is blah. He's an amazing liar--but his lies are dull. He wears high heel boots to make himself look fully grown.

Commentators talked and talked about the different groups of Republican voters and the candidates the groups supported. No one in the mainstream media breakdowns mentioned the most important GOP group, the racists, or how the racists were voting this season. No poll figures on that one. 

What struck me were the MSNBC figures spinning for Hillary Clinton. Hillary began the campaign with a 40 point lead in Iowa and by hard campaigning and meeting the public whittled that down to a virtual tie with a socialist, Bernie Sanders, at the end. That's how much the voters liked Hillary, how they responded to the shape of her focus group personality. She lost the Obama base except for African Americans. For some on MSNBC, this was a great Hillary victory. Let's hope she doesn't have to run against a likable Republican.