January 01, 2008
Bringing Home The Bacon
The award for "dorkiest revelers" on New Year's Eve went to John Edwards, "who planned an 'office party' in Mason City -- for 6:30 p.m." -- and Barack Obama, "who scheduled a midnight conference call with supporters" (Washington Post).
The New Beginnings New Year's Eve party in Des Moines "brought in more than a thousand" Hillary Clinton supporters "to sip $5 Miller Lites from a keg and don paper party hats and leis." The crowd was "entertained by the musical stylings of '90s one-hit wonder Big Head Todd" (New York Daily News).
Chris Dodd spent 12/31 a.m. at a Niman Ranch farm near Thornton, "where he loaded 20 hogs onto trucks to be sent to market." He then headed to the home of farmers Paul and Phyllis Willis, who "served him a hearty breakfast with Niman Ranch bacon" (Des Moines Register).
Since 12/22, seven-week-old William Joseph McNarney has been photographed in IA with Joe Biden, HRC, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Obama, Bill Richardson and Fred Thompson, as well as Christie Vilsack, Chelsea Clinton and Bill Clinton. The baby, who already has a blog, "has not endorsed a candidate," but B. Clinton "made a great impression" (Des Moines Register).
"On the campaign trail, nobody's going to be able, if they've been campaigning as hard as we have been, to keep up with every single thing, from what happened to Britney last night to who won 'Dancing with the Stars'" -- Huckabee, somehow comparing his failure to read the Iran NIE to Britney Spears (Quad-City Times).
Clinton, IA, resident Andy Green, 20, has "met almost all the candidates and taken photos of each one smiling with his Mr. Potato Head" (Washington Post).
Posted at 06:11 PM
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