Democrats Lose Iowa

Terry Branstad will be Iowa's once and future governor, while our incumbent Democratic guv, Chet Culver, will lose handily in November.

Chuck Grassley will continue to be our irascible, cornfed country lawyer U.S. Senator, while Roxanne Conlin, the Democratic standard bearer for as many Iowa women as she can convince to live in her private vision of the 1980's, goes down in ignominious, yet terribly unfair, flames yet again.

Culver and Conlin, bambi-eyed in the headlights of history, please don your peril-sensitive sunglasses now.