Not too long ago, we cats wondered whether the short-attention-span crowd that supports Donald Trump in Iowa would be willing to toddle down to their local VFW lodge (or wherever) on a frigid February night and sit or stand around for hours to caucus for their guy.
We know from experience that Iowa takes not just a lot of organizing, but a ton of cadging, cajoling and follow-up. You have to babysit every one of your caucus-goers and make sure they 1) turn out and 2) stay for the whole thing — and it's not an easy lift.
Now, we're finally seeing the news media catch up with us on that subject.
The New York Times has just noted that the Trump ground game in Iowa is, um, not so hot. And The Washington Post attended a Trump rally — so you don't have to — and reported that, after an initial burst of chest thumping and generic racist insults, the crowd basically gets bored and drifts away. Even before Trump is finished speaking.
Hm. Trump may yet win New Hampshire, but Iowa comes first, and his supporters still don't strike us as the type that will tough out the caucuses. And we'd like to point out that we haven't been nearly as snarky about Trump supporters as Rand Paul's Iowa guy just was.
"It’s far different to get that person out of a La-Z-Boy to hop in a car and avoid the black ice and head to their local firehouse," Steve Grubbs told the Times.
"La-Z-Boy"? Meee-ow! We cats PURR.
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