.Olivianuzzi reports from the Des Moines Marriott, where among campaign staffers and reporters, there were tears, cocktails, regrets, and pledges to never return to Iowa
Photo: Tom Brenner/Getty Images In the face of uncertainty, we return to what’s comfortable. Around the Iowa caucuses, that means the lobby of the Marriott in downtown Des Moines. It is a hideous space with even worse energy. Without question, many bad decisions have been made here throughout many election cycles. On Caucus Eve, I walked through here and found two different people I know in tears. Right now, well after 1 a.m.
Over their cocktails, people are remarking on how they may never return to this state, how this might be their last experience getting into their rental cars and careening over the ice on I-80 past the jackknifed semi-trucks and sedans overturned on the snowy median. They might never again drive over dirt roads through cornfields to see the candidates address union halls and Fourth of July parades and the State Fair, where they see the Butter Cow and eat corn dogs and pork chops on a stick.
It’s Tuesday morning, and we have no answers. “Today is already today. Today is tomorrow. The future is now,” one reporter said.
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