The train is leaving the station:
"Gov. Tom Vilsack and Lt. Gov. Sally Pederson, Iowa Democratic chairwoman, were among eight of Iowa's nine voting members of the Democratic National Committee to endorse the former Vermont governor.
Joining Vilsack and Pederson were Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, State Treasurer Mike Fitzgerald, national committeewoman Sandy Opstvedt, national committeeman Ken Rains, state party Vice Chairman Rob Tully and Grinnell College student Grant Woodard, president of College Democrats of America.
Abstaining was Secretary of State Chet Culver, who will wait to endorse a candidate until after a meeting of Democratic secretaries of state with the candidates this weekend in Washington, D.C."
Better get on board, Chet, or folks will remember when that governor's primary comes around in 16 months...
So what's this mean for the caucuses?
The aforementioned Governor Vilsack, briefly the defeated John Kerry's choice for DNC chair, gets just a brief mention in this article, which is a great big-picture overview about what has happened - a epochal power shift within the Democratic Party:
The DNC chair race has exposed deep fissures within the Democratic Party. Some of these are ideological, but the real story of the race is the diffusion of power away from Washington and to new people and entities that have rushed to fill the power vacuum at the top of the party. Even when out of power, Democratic pooh-bahs traditionally rally around a consensus figure and present him to the DNC members as a fait accompli. An open process with all the trappings of a modern political campaign--including a seven-candidate field, fund-raising, regional debates, and smear campaigns in the press--is unprecedented in the party's history...
The blogosphere gets its props, too, especially for crushing Tim Roemer.
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