Iowa is Smarter Than You Think It Is. Posted by Moira Whelan

If you haven’t had time to keep up with the horserace(s) in Iowa and need a quick catch up, make sure to listen to Taylor Marsh’s latest podcast on her Foreign Policy Tuesday broadcast.

NSN works with Taylor every week to link up our folks with her witty and informative show.

This week, it was Damon Terrill—a real live Iowan!!! In addition to being an outstanding professional with tremendous international background, Damon is a native Iowan and worked with other fantastic folks to run our candidate forum out in Iowa. NSN was proud to link up with the Iowa City Foreign Relations Committee to host 5 of the Democratic candidates (note: all candidates of both persuasions were invited) in candidate Q&As on security and foreign policy issues. We’re pretty proud we were able to work with people to put candidates on the hot seat, and you can hear more about it, and more about Damon’s take on the world in Taylor’s broadcast.

As a fellow midwesterner, I gotta say, I'm proud of these Iowans. We folk from the fly over states are often accused of being dumb and average. That's why Iowa is the home of retail politics, right? Shaking babies and kissing hands is what really counts, it's not so much what you think, right? HA! Well, if Iowans are "Joe Beer Can"  than Joe  deeply understands global challenges and won't settle for fluffy answers.  To me, the most rewarding part of the '08 process is that questions about Iraq, Iran, non-proliferation, America's global image, and the rest, aren't coming from the VSPs...they're coming from voters.  To all you East Coast Ivy Leaguers: ...yeah...hicks made that happen, after all your years of talking about it, midwesterners just did it. Nothing changes I suppose.

So I digress, but don’t miss Taylor's discussion with Hillary Mann Leverett on Iran last week, and make sure to tune in to Taylor Marsh…you’ll be hard pressed to find someone who can ask better questions than she on the issues DA readers love to chat about. Taylor's listeners have also heard from Rosa Brooks, Brian Katulis, and of course Rand Beers on previous shows (and they probably didn't know they were being interviewed by a <gasp> midwesterner ...but they love her just the same!).   

PS, I've been pretty bad about cross-posting Taylor's shows, but I promise, it's my New Year's Resolution!

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