For those of you who aren’t addicted to politics like chocolate-covered crack, there’s yet another debate tonight — this time on CNN, and not that irritating MSNBC with its crappy anti-Mac website.

It’s seven weeks till the Iowa caucus. I’ve gone through kind of a roller coaster on this campaign, first thinking Joe Biden would emerge quickly in the spring as the obvious candidate of experience, then settling into a slow-but-steady state of calm, but dipping into the occasional bouts of I-hate-my-country despair, in all honesty.

I have a feeling about tonight, and I have a feeling about Iowa. I feel it in my bones like arthritic joints before a big storm. It’s still going to be a hard press to make a stand in Iowa and try to blast out of the caucuses with the momentum to stun New Hampshire, but it’s really within reach, and I’m no longer using the word “quixotic” about this bid. You just wait; Iowa is going to shock you. Hope you get to watch tonight, and I hope Wolf friggin’ Blitzer gives Biden more time than Russert and Williams did last week.

And I hope Pakistan can run itself for a few hours while Joe is on stage.

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