What....You all have missed the SKINNY???

[Debi]

Well, here it is..... http://www.dmcityview.com/skinny.shtml

Old news, a correction, new polls, new jobs

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New news. Another poll says Democratic incumbent Tom Harkin will coast to victory in November over what’s-his-name, the Republican, and two new polls agree with the Iowa Poll that Barack Obama has a double-digit lead over John McCain. The Senate poll, conducted by the usually accurate SurveyUSA for KAAL-TV in Mason City and Channel 13 in Des Moines, has Harkin leading Chris Reed by 23 points, 60 percent to 37 percent. Harkin leads among men and women, the young and the old, the urban and the rural. The only groups favoring Reed are pro-lifers and people who call themselves conservatives. Independents favor Harkin two-to-one. …

A new Lee Enterprises poll taken by Research2000 shows Obama ahead of McCain in Iowa, 53 percent to 39 percent. Similarly, a SurveyUSA poll has Obama up 54-43. The polls were taken before Sara Palin, in Cedar Rapids, referred to the place as Grand Rapids. …

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Democrat Becky Greenwald got a boost last week in her effort to become the first Iowa woman ever elected to Congress. The fourth-district opponent of incumbent Tom Latham had been angling for some time to get endorsed by Emily’s List, the Washington-based political-action committee that gives money to pro-choice women who it thinks can win, and last week the endorsement came. But it’s still an uphill fight. …

What ever happened to Tom Vilsack? We’re glad you asked. He’ll be spending the fall semester as a resident fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He’ll be teaching a study seminar called “Do the Gods or Odds Control Us?” It’s “a study of risk and responsibility in the big issues facing America today.” Among the speakers being brought in for the eight sessions are Iowa insurance commissioner Susan Voss and MidAmerican Energy president Greg Abel. The class meets Thursdays at 4 p.m., beginning Oct. 2, in case you’re in Cambridge and want to drop in. CV

[Hardrada]

1. The Odds. But you can still load the dice on occasion.