GOP caucus chair: Voters not ‘ticked off’

January 3rd, 2008 at 11:06pm Aaron Chambers

A good reporter always must be cognizant of whom he or she is talking to, and how that person is likely to perceive — and respond to — any particular question.

This is especially true in politics, where the subjects of interviews tend to see the world — and, by extension, answers to questions — at least partly in partisan terms.

But we’re all human, and we therefore fumble. So it goes that I probably should have anticipated the response I got from Adrianne Branstad, a 27-year-old homemaker in West Des Moines, when I asked her if the extraordinary enthusiasm of Iowa voters on Thursday night may have been because they’re “ticked off” about the status quo.

Branstad also is Republican caucus chairman in the city’s 314th precinct. The status quo, of course, is the Bush administration.

“Gosh, I wouldn’t say ‘ticked off,’” she said.

“We’re so lucky to have (the nation’s first caucus) here in Iowa,” she continued. “There are so many candidates, you can’t go anywhere without running into one. It’s so energized. They’re here so much. It’s hard not to be involved.”

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