Friday Candidate Stops

Can't Swing A Dead Cat Without Hitting A Candidate

Or offending PETA. Here's a few highlights:

Former Iowa City council member Larry Baker (Dem) checks out Mitt and disses two candidates in one shot. The first shot is more interesting:

"The only way the Democrats can lose to Romney is if they nominate Hillary," Baker said. "(Romney is) transparently a political opportunist. The public is not going to buy that. The country is fed up with corruption and incompetence."

Who the hell is Rick Nolan? I'm a junkie and I had to hit the Congressional Biographical Directory (great tool) to find out who Chris Dodd's surrogate at the Polk COunty dinner. Answer: One of Dodd's House `74 classmates from Minnesota who left the ball game in 1980. Writeups in Iowa Politics and Register: "Edwards received the biggest ovation from the crowd. Richardson, however, got the biggest laughs." Iowa Politics points out the obvious: "A small crowd of four backers for Sen. Joe Biden chimed in, but did not muster a loud enough voice to garner the same excitement."