Evidence continues to mount exposing the fallacy that political journalism has high predictive value. But reporters are still very good (and better than most people playing along at home) at framing the relevant questions.
is a column by POLITICO founding editor John Harris, offering weekly perspective on politics in a moment of radical disruption.The Uber driver, learning my occupation, wants to know. So, too, newsroom colleagues who cover beats other than politics. So, too, family members, who not unreasonably imagine that I must have gained some insight by leaving them to travel here.Two words I have learned to say, first with embarrassment, now with a measure of acceptance: Beats me.
Even if you think the hack pack is full of it, you might be curious about the questions that are consuming us on the brink of the caucuses, and at the start of an intense period of at least several weeks and at most several months thatIt was the most striking thing as soon as I arrived in Des Moines: the incredulity of colleagues at multiple news organizations upon seeing the former Vice President campaign in person if they had not been in his presence for a while.
Joe Biden hugs his wife, Jill Biden, before speaking to crowds at Hiatt Middle School in Des Moines on Sunday. | KC McGinnis for POLITICO Biden surrogates like former Sen. Chris Dodd make light of age questions, citing the vitality of 79-year-old Nancy Pelosi, and quipping that “seventies are the new fifties.”
This reality is making for a parlor game.
Even if none of these people win their relative standings will illuminate a lot about how the party’s centrists wing coalesces over the next several weeks. There was considerable speculation on the ground that the long-time complaints about the caucuses—that the state lacks diversity, that the process has become swollen and pretentious and doesn’t really test general-election readiness—might finally be reaching critical mass and that Democrats might be willing to abandon it. That will be especially true if Iowans tonight select a winner that doesn’t end up winning the nomination or general election.
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