Perry
01-03-2008, 03:31 PM
Caucus Day: Your Ron Paul feed
My able editor Danielle Jones is going to be updating this blog with a series of feeds from colleagues who are tailing the candidates on this final caucus day.
First, though, I'll include some reporting of my own.
Wearing out shoe leather in the Des Moines Marriott lobby, I ran into Ron Paul and then had the opportunity to share an elevator with him to the upper reaches of the hotel.
Asked for his prediction on where he would finish, the congressman-obstetrician said he'd do fine.
"I think we'll do well," he told me while toting his own bag and waiting for family and aides.
Asked if he could finish in the top three, Paul shrugged and said "I don't have any idea" in a way that indicated he didn't want to contniue the line of questioning.
On the elevator, he said Fox was disallowing him from their GOP forum in New Hampshire on Sunday because "they don't want to hear from anybody who's against the war."
Spokesman Jesse Benton, also on the elevator, said that ABC is including Paul in their Saturday debate in the Granite State, though.
Source:Politico (http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/)
My able editor Danielle Jones is going to be updating this blog with a series of feeds from colleagues who are tailing the candidates on this final caucus day.
First, though, I'll include some reporting of my own.
Wearing out shoe leather in the Des Moines Marriott lobby, I ran into Ron Paul and then had the opportunity to share an elevator with him to the upper reaches of the hotel.
Asked for his prediction on where he would finish, the congressman-obstetrician said he'd do fine.
"I think we'll do well," he told me while toting his own bag and waiting for family and aides.
Asked if he could finish in the top three, Paul shrugged and said "I don't have any idea" in a way that indicated he didn't want to contniue the line of questioning.
On the elevator, he said Fox was disallowing him from their GOP forum in New Hampshire on Sunday because "they don't want to hear from anybody who's against the war."
Spokesman Jesse Benton, also on the elevator, said that ABC is including Paul in their Saturday debate in the Granite State, though.
Source:Politico (http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/)