Most importantly...

[CornField]

No matter who is announced as the winner of the Democratic gubernatorial primary, how are we going to repair the damage which has been done?

In the past two weeks, I've heard both Blouin and Culver supporters state that they will not be able to support the opposite side if the other wins the primary. Further, there have been thinly veiled threats passed about (i.e., You better hope Culver doesn't win because there is no way labor is going to support him.)

It didn't have to be this way... and it wasn't this way until the mud starting slinging and everyone got their emotions so bent out of shape. Since so many of our elected officials have decided to stick their noses into this primary, I truly wish they would have also stuck in their foot. That is, they *all* should have put their feet down about the attacks which have gone back and forth. Is the Governor's office worth our party being split in this fashion? Is any of this worth us tearing each other apart?

[MaggieSwanson]

1. Vote Fallon, dahling...

then everything will made right in Iowa! :D

[Counciltucky]

2. Didn't realize...

...that it got this serious. I figured people were smart enough to realize the true enemy is Nussle and the GOP. Guess not.

I'm no huge Blouin fan by any stretch, but he has my backing if he wins.

The important thing all Dems should realize, NO MATTER WHO WINS: Do you REALLY want people like Nussle and Vander Plaats calling the shots? I mean, really?

[pstans]

3. They say that now, but when Nussle's ads start up

they will be voting Democrat. And if Fallon wins, we won't have to worry about it.

[CoffeeCat]

4. That's typical talk during a primary...

When the GE comes along, the primary cat fighting will be a repressed memory.

The Democrats will galvanize against Nussle--a complete neocon, right-wing jerk.

We all have loyalties and a lot of emotions attached to the Dem candidate that we want. However, when push comes to shove--everyone seems to fall in line and help the Dems defeat the Reps.

This time the stakes are so severely high and the chasm between the Reps and Dems has never been more wide.

I don't think any Dem wants to see Nussle--Newt Gingrich's former towel boy--the head of this state. I shudder just thinking about it.