Europe Watches Iowa

Watching America has a flurry of articles from Europe on the Iowa caucuses. The French media have been busy summarizing events for their readers, as in Last Moment of the Campaign before the Iowa Caucuses from the Nouvel Observateur, France and the current feature story, Iowa Caucuses Kick off the Primaries from Le Monde, France

The Brits are more colorful and opinionated, it seems. The Guardian, U.K. is writing some great copy, all of which WA.com is aggregating. Writing in the Great Race to the White House looks at the candidates’ books, while Republicans Face First Poll in Disarray offers such great one-liners as

There is growing unease among Republican organisers that the Grand Old Party of Lincoln, Eisenhower and Reagan could meet the same fate as Huckabee’s squirrel.

The Brits indeed have a cultural bias toward cynicism and the humbling of the mighty, especially when the mighty have been taking their mightiness for granted, so you can bet on plenty more of such irreverence as we go through the Primaries…

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