I’ve been getting some hilarious e-mails from a friend of mine who lives in Dubuque, Iowa. I wrote her because I was curious about what life was like in Iowa amid the nonstop statewide campaigning going on by the 8 or 9 top presidential candidates. She gave me these hilarious details:
1) She hasn’t had to shovel her walk all winter. All you have to do is ask one of the campaign workers who knock on doors to do it and they will.
2) Because the campaign work day runs about 19-20 hours, there are events going on at all hours. My friend and her husband were awakened by their dog who heard an Obama rally down the street. Her husband walked the dog into a crowd of rally attendees going home.
3) The junior campaign workers are spending today standing on street corners all day with their candidate’s signs. It’s a balmy zero degrees right now.
4) As a likely Republican caucus goer, she has DIRECT ACCESS to Chuck Norris whenever he comes to Dubuque.
She’s been feeding me this stuff for the last 24 hours. I’ll let you know if I find out more.
Meantime, I was amused by an observation made by Boston columnist Mike Barnacle on Imus in the Morning yesterday. He noticed that in Iowa and New Hampshire “regular” people speak in flawless soundbites now. The so-called “man on the street” segments seen on the news really just show how our mass media culture has saturated society down to its core. I heard a “citizen” explain why he supported Chris Dodd on MSNBC this morning and he used lines directly from Dodd’s stump speech. Wild stuff. Meantime, half the country remains unaware of the election. What a country!
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