From Kos and the midday open thread:
Vilsack is moving ahead on his potential presidential bid."
(note: the Political Wire article mostly just links to today's Register.) Kos continues:
Step one? Ensure that a Democrat retains his governor's seat once he steps down. Given Iowa's purple status, helping a Dem retain the seat won't be as impressive as Warner's feat in Virginia. But failure to do so would be pretty damning.
Which makes the man from Mt. Pleasant's decision to de facto endorse Blouin all the more problematic. What happens if we on the left refuses to accept a shoved down our throats Blouin nomination? The best thing about the Vilsack Era has been some critical pro-choice use of the veto pen; Tom should discuss this at length with his good friend Mike...
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