Hillary: how inevitable?

[CoffeeCat]

113. I live in Iowa...

…and I saw how Hillary's inevitability helped her last time. I had front-row seats.

Hillary lacks the ability to truly connect and communicate with people. That doesn't fly in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses. We take our first-in-the-nation status very seriously. Candidates need to speak to small audiences, be authentic, answer questions, be open and appear in forums where Iowans have total access to you. We want to grill you. We want to see the whites of your eyes. We want you in our living rooms.

During the Democratic primary, I attended an Obama event. I was not sure who I was voting for and the organizer of the event listened to my concerns. The next day Barack Obama called me at home, and wanted to discuss why I was undecided. He wanted to know what my primary concerns were. We talked for ten minutes until his phone died (I know, right?!). He then called me back and we wrapped up the conversation. I ended up not only voting for Obama, but becoming a precinct captain for him.

Hillary, on the other hand, failed on all levels when she campaigned in Iowa.

She spoke at large events, rarely took questions and was very impersonal. She did organize a Q&A event, but it was discovered that the questioners were not Iowans, but her staffers asking scripted questions. That did not go over well.

It's why she came in third.