Iowa Sucks Anyway

No more trips to Iowa. CS Monitor:

Are blogs the new Iowa? Conventional wisdom holds that the main geopolitical focus of any nomination campaign should be the first caucus state, Iowa, and the first primary state, New Hampshire. Yet, if the blogosphere is a place, then it is the real "first in the nation" testing ground. And yet candidates must work the blogosphere through old- fashioned retail politics: one blog at a time. Like visiting coffee shops and town halls in Nashua, candidates must also have a personal interaction with bloggers.

Hey, the Daily Kos had almost the same amount of visitors as the nytimes online in September. Whether for good or bad the online world has begun to exert influence on political affairs.