Yes.  I would like to hear from caucus goers and what newspaper endorsement means.  But, it appears that Iowans don't like the "inevitability" tag, and it could mean some push back.

The Storm Lake Times is published every Wednesday and Saturday and has a paid ciruculation of 3200 copies.

Didnt Biden vote 4 the Iraq war?.............How could a newspaper site his foreign policy experience when he got the most important vote of the last 20 years wrong.  He ran for president once already and was humiliately when he was sited for plagarism, forcing him to drop out.  He also has a problem with "foot and mouth" disease.  Attacking both Indian Americans and African Americans with his off color remarks.

for Biden. As I wrote in July:
http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/7/9/83057 /54400

4. Partly because of his stand on Iraq, I see Biden as a candidate who might get some newspaper endorsements. Some newspaper editorial boards in Iowa are quite conservative (I'm not talking about The Des Moines Register), and Biden is the kind of Democrat who doesn't bother Republicans so much. Most editorial boards backed the Iraq War, and they are probably sympathetic to the idea that we can't "just leave" without creating chaos.

Also, if editors want to avoid pissing off large numbers of Edwards, Clinton or Obama supporters among their readers, endorsing Biden might be an attractive option. He's not seen as a threat to the front-runners, so endorsing him wouldn't make anyone too angry.

I don't want to make too much of newspaper endorsements, because I don't think most voters are taking their cue from them. However, they can give a signal as to which candidates are "serious" enough to consider supporting. A Biden leaner who isn't sure whether he would be viable might be influenced by these. Candidates often feature these endorsements in final-week tv advertising.

In 2004, Edwards did better in central Iowa (the main reading area for the Des Moines Register, which endorsed him) than he did in many parts of the state where newspapers endorsed Kerry (Dubuque, Mason City, Quad Cities). However, Edwards' organization outside central Iowa was very weak in 2004, so I wouldn't say that newspaper endorsements were the key advantage Kerry had.

Biden voted for the war.  And the bankruptcy bill.  He deserves Secretary of State, not president or VP.

How electable is Biden? How electable is a woman, or a man of color?

Am I the only one horrified by this remark?

Yes. I guess you are the only one "horrified" by the remark. There is nothing wrong or offensive by asking that question (how electable is a woman? how electable is a man of color). You seem to be one of those people who is "horrified" simply by the mentioning of the fact that everyone is not a white male.

The question is neither racist or sexist. It simply brings into prespective the fact that one of the leading candidates is a woman and one of the leading candidates is part black and part white (Obama's mother, I believe, is a white woman and his father was a black male) and no one is saying that either of them is "not electable" based on their race or sex.

The question points out, Miss Looking-for-something-to-be-offended-by, that we have moved past race or sex as what makes someone electable and is designed to make people realize that everyone is "electable" unless people irrationally decide to believe otherwise.

You seem to have found your own strawman, turned him into  a red herring, and followed it downstream. I'm glad you're the only one who is "horrified" by your delusional interpretation of the question.

This is a huge endorsement. Yes, it is from a small newspaper but so what. It is the first endorsement and that is what makes it big.

Biden is right about a lot of things. His plan to end the war is the best offered by anyone else and he has the creds to back it up.

Much has been made of the inevitability of certain candidates. For the sake of our party I hope the conventional wisdom is wrong.

Biden not only voted for the AUMF but helped Bush start the war by wimping out on his committee chair responsibilities.  From The Nation, August 1, 2002:

And yet, here we are, poised on the slippery precipice of a pre-emptive war, without even the benefit of meaningful public debate. The constitutional crisis is so deep that it is not even noticed. The unilateralism of the Bush White House is an affront to the rest of the world, which is unanimously opposed to such an action. The Democratic Party, even in its role as loyal opposition, should be doing its utmost to raise the difficult questions. Instead, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, under the chairmanship of Democratic Senator Biden, organized two days of hearings, notable for the absence of critical voices. Such hearings are worse than nothing, creating a forum for advocates of war, fostering the illusion that no sensible dissent exists and thus serving mainly to raise the war fever a degree or two. How different might the impact of such hearings be if respected and informed critics of a pre-emptive war, such as Hans von Sponeck and Denis Halliday, both former UN coordinators of humanitarian assistance to Iraq who resigned in protest a few years back, were given the opportunity to appear before the senators.

but a lot of undecided voters have very positive things to say about Biden, especially those who have seen him in person. I think his support will grow before January.

On the Republican Side- It is looking like Mike Huckabee is the Second Tier Candidate that is becoming a wild card- He is somewhat moveing into the top tier slot.

Which second tier candidate on the Democratic side should we keep an eye on. Biden or Richardson

If Dodd or Biden come from nowhere to win Iowa, that would throw this race on its ear... I don't like Biden at all and frankly would rather have Hillary than Biden... Dodd, I would be hapy with... Obama, Dodd, Gore or Edwards would all be good.