Posted on 12/27/2007 7:06:26 AM PST by NCDragon
LOS ANGELES — At Christmas dinner at my friend Lynne’s, the talk was politics. What else? Scattered around the room were veterans of more campaigns than anyone wanted to count, and the best news, for all of us, was that this year, we were all eating dinner with friends and family in California, not taking the extra chair in the home of a new best friend in Manchester or drinking dinner at the Savery Hotel in downtown Des Moines. Been there, done that.
So what did we know? What did you miss?
Good food and great desserts and more than a few heads shaking.
The line we had all heard from all three campaigns on the Democratic side (Clinton, Obama, and Edwards) was that anyone could finish first. Or second. Or, most importantly, third. In Iowa, what has always counted most is not who wins but who loses.
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