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Our man in Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa – Be honest: You don’t really care about Candidate X’s position on Social Security reform or his/her stance on the carbon tax. What you really want to know is: Who can I hang with?
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Luckily, someone’s looking out for people like you. As 2008 presidential candidates stumped around here Wednesday night, making last-minute pitches for support in advance of Thursday’s caucus, the National Beer Wholesalers Association was busy at Legends Grill on Court Avenue working a different crowd: You guessed it … beer drinkers.
Patrons were given ballots and asked to vote for which candidate they’d most want to drink with. On the Democratic side, Gov. Bill Richardson took the honors (perhaps that might explain the belly) and Rudy Giuliani — a man who can be drunkenly boisterous even when he’s sober — won among Republicans. Nationally, however (via voting on the Association’s Web site www.whodoyouwanttohaveabeerwith.com), Sen. Barack Obama leads both Republicans and Democrats.
A spokesperson told us that, unfortunately, no candidate had decided to woo this particular Iowa bar crowd, but they were keeping hope alive. Because every beer drinker, at heart, is a glass half full kinda guy.
