By today we will have learned who has won the New Hampshire primary, the first true electoral test of the 2008 presidential campaign. Of course, the Iowa caucuses will be held Jan. 3. Despite candidates cruising in these two tiny states, do they really matter?
Of course they don't. Look who won the Iowa caucuses in 2004. The Hound doesn't remember Howard Dean being the Democratic candidate who ran against President Bush. Yet, he won the Hawkeye State.
Both these states engender too much attention from the nation's political pundits. Neither state is as diverse as Illinois, which holds its primary on Feb. 5, the so-called "super-duper Tuesday" when several large states hold presidential primaries. If any state should get attention it is Illinois, which nearly mirrors the nation's national demographics. We're a farm state; we're an industrial state.
We'll get our due shortly when the focus gets off these tiny states and the national media cruises into the Land of Lincoln. The Hound just hopes those candidates don't start yelling like Howard Dean. That hurt his ears.
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