The last, highly predictive Des Moines Register poll before the Iowa caucuses has come out, and on the Republican side, we cats just want to tell Baby Marco Rubio: You'd better duck, dude.
Not that we think Baby Marco is worth anyone's time come the general election — but for purposes of the 2016 GOP clown car, Rubio's fellow passengers will desperately want to drive him down from 15 percent to maybe 12 or below. We'll see if that's possible. They have one day left to try.
On the Democratic side, we cats know that — not to sound like a broken record — it's all going to come down to the ground game. On that note, we are encouraged by two recent stories: One, that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is not beaming into Iowa to hold huge pro-Clinton rallies but, rather, is knocking on doors; and two, that Rafael Cruz, Jr.'s recent embarrassing town-hall moment over Obamacare came at the hands not of a Republican voter but of a Clinton caucus-goer. Bravo, Mike Valde, and we cats are sorry for your loss.
We are also impressed that the newspaper that broke the "story" of the Clinton emails has, today, enthusiastically endorsed our former Secretary of State for President. We cats have read the editorial, and we wouldn't change a word. (We're not sure how much the paper's simultaneous endorsement of John Kasich on the Republican side is going to help him with the party's crazy teabagger base.)
And goodness gracious, Cruz is in a bit of a pickle, isn't he? While the right-right-right wingers in the Iowa GOP wrestle with what they're going to do on Monday night, we cats would just like to remind them that Rafael Cruz, Jr. was born in a Canadian province which has enjoyed universal health care for going on 50 years now, and has embraced marriage equality since 2005. Just sayin'. We cats PURR.
(PHOTO: Doug Mills, The New York Times)
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