They gave you Alan Keyes. But the Des Moines Register has decided not to extend its pre-caucus debate embrace of lower tier candidates to Dennis Kucinich. It appears to be something to do with his Iowa coordinator running the state campaign from his home. From CBS's Horserace blog:
Dennis Kucinich has been excluded from Thursday's Democratic debate.
In a press release, the Kucinich campaign fumed: "The highest polling Democratic Presidential candidate among the Party's progressive, grassroots, activist base, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, has been excluded from the Des Moines Register-sponsored Presidential debate here on Thursday because his Iowa field director operates from a home office rather than a rented storefront."
All very well, but, to repeat myself, this is from the people who brought you Alan Keyes, the man who played a large part in bringing today's tedium of a Republican debate to new levels of irrelevance. It was like a journey on a packed commuter train - you felt it was never going to end, there were too many people and some of them were crazy.
Still on at least one indicator Kucinich is performing well in Iowa. In the latest Des Moines Register poll he is tied on 1% with Chris Dodd. And Dodd didn't just rent a storefront in the state; he moved his family there.
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