Sheesh, your posts are so negative lately you're starting to sound like a Republican.

A little liberal intimidation or Rove politics?

"Some Iowa pastors who support Republican Mike Huckabee for president say they have received letters warning them that getting involved in politics could endanger the tax-exempt status of their churches.

Several pastors who have publicly backed Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister who has support from many evangelicals, said they have received the letters, which have no return address. They have arrived in the weeks leading to Thursday's precinct caucuses..."

A lesson to the Repubs or just Iowans being Iowans?

"Thousands more Iowa independent voters are expected to turn out for Democrat presidential candidates than Republicans at today's Iowa caucuses.

Iowa independents are expected to follow the lead set by their national peers in 2006. Nationwide, independents backed Democrats heavily in the watershed 2006 elections, in part out of a rejection of President Bush and a loud cry for change that has continued into the 2008 campaign, strategists in both parties agree..."

This quote makes me proud to be a native of Iowa.

'Tonya Kehoe is among Iowa independents planning to attend a Democratic caucus.

She plans to stand with the Democrats in her Iowa City neighborhood because of what she calls the financial squeeze she and her two-income family of three has felt.

"It's just been difficult to keep up in the last four years. It's really pinched us," said Kehoe, a 38-year-old lifelong Iowan who also will be attending her first caucus.

"I don't even know how to caucus," the community college teacher said. "But I can't afford not to participate this time."'