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The Cain Train Keeps Rolling

Posted on | August 9, 2011 | 8 Comments

Herman Cain speaks at Monday’s rally in Council Bluffs.

Last night there was no time to blog about the late-afternoon Herman Cain rally at Bayliss Park in Council Bluffs. Dave Weigel, who had been there for Michele Bachmann’s earlier event, said Cain actually drew a slightly larger crowd than Bachmann. But I didn’t have time to blog it, because I was working on my American Spectator column:

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Lois Vanderbur drove 30 miles from her home in Mapleton to attend Herman Cain’s event Monday in Denison. When the event was over, she went to eat at a nearby McDonald’s, where I overheard her tell her friend Rose Wolden: “Obama was an hour late for his speech and promised to raise taxes, and then the Dow fell 550 points.”
Mrs. Vanderbur, 68, is a very well-informed grandmother. When I asked her about the stock market tumble, she whipped out her iPhone, called up the latest numbers and told me that the Dow Jones Industrial Average had, in fact, closed at 10,809.85 for a one-day loss of 634.67 points. Forget all that stereotypical talk about Iowans being a bunch of ignorant hicks from flyover country. Their state’s most famous product is still corn — and the cornfields here are better measured by the square mile than by the acre — but the first-in-the-nation Iowa Caucuses have made politics at least the state’s second-most important export, and few Americans are more civic-minded than a politically active Iowan.
Mrs. Vanderbur and Mrs. Wolden were among more than 60 area residents who crowded into Cronk’s Café in downtown Denison for Cain’s mid-afternoon event, the second stop on his statewide “Common Sense Solutions” bus tour. . . .

Please read the whole thing at The American Spectator. And here are a couple more photos from the Council Bluffs rally:


I’m in Des Moines today, and am taking the day away from the Cain campaign to catch up with Tim Pawlenty, who will speak at the state capitol this morning. Please hit the tip jar!

Category: American Spectator, Election 2012, Fear and Loathing in Iowa, Herman Cain, Iowa

Comments

8 Responses to “The Cain Train Keeps Rolling”

  1. Joe
    August 9th, 2011 @ 3:15 pm

    Go Herman Go. 

  2. ThePaganTemple
    August 9th, 2011 @ 3:20 pm

    catch up with Tim Pawlenty, who will speak at the state capitol this morning.

    Did you get a good nights sleep?

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  4. TAD
    August 9th, 2011 @ 3:36 pm

    Mr McCain. Check your logs. I am a regular reader of your site. The cost of my average breakfast is $2.79. You however did spend $13.02 on your breakfast sunday. Would please hit my TIPJAR? It would seem you can afford it.

  5. Bob Belvedere
    August 9th, 2011 @ 3:42 pm

    Aw…damn…another left-hander.  Ain’t that a sign of the Apocalypse?

  6. Anonymous
    August 9th, 2011 @ 6:45 pm

    Thus proving you never travel out of your Mom’s basement. You couldn’t buy the ingredients to cook it, let alone buy it, for that price.

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