Orange Bowl Could Keep People From Caucuses

For winter-ready Iowans, tonight's Orange Bowl game could be a bigger deterrent to caucus attendance than potentially bad weather.

Recent studies have shown that cold weather has deterred voters in the past. But so far the forecasts throughout Iowa range in the twenties with sunny skies, nothing out of the ordinary for a state used to cold winds ripping through its plains.

The bigger couch draw will most likely be the Orange Bowl. The game attracts millions of television viewers each year. It could have even greater ratings this time because emotionally wounded Virginia Tech is competing against Kansas State.

If you think weather will still be a factor tonight then keep checking the Iowa temperature's here. Or you can wait for the viewer ratings to come out for the Orange Bowl.

Comments

[Kundera]

Cold weather affects lefty global warming voters from getting to caucus.

hilarious.

[lalawguy]

As a KU journalism alum, I have to say that I too am disappointed in the shoddy reporting and editing in this story. Kansas and Kansas State are two different schools. Kansas is playing in the Orange Bowl, NOT Kansas State!

[BTN]

Could global temperatures be actually falling?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/25/nbook125.xml

[WilliePilgrim]

And then again, maybe not.
One thing for sure is that this entire caucus frenzy has more in common with March Madness than substance, further dragging the attention span of the voting public down even further. In the mean time they're wondering why kids cant find their way around a mercator projection or compete with kids from india. They hold strenuously to the idea of the greenhouse gases as learned in a 5th grade science film strip from 30 years ago, replete with dead dinosaurs representing fossil fuels, and yet cant figure out their TIVO...good gravey. You know if we had lost the american revolution we would have abandoned slavery 3 generations earier than we did following a bloody civil war, we would have universal health care, and our elelction process would be limited to a little over a month. Ah...rule Britania!

[whitewaterwillie]

Well if it came down to the repub caucus and the Orange Bowl, what would you choose?

[RobtBrock]

Right. The Big Game is going to be a knockdown drag-out between Kansas State and Virginia Commonwealth. Nice job, Zaleski...if that really is your name.

[Chocolate2008]

What fool picked this date ?

That's what I wanna know.

[RollaMO]

I love college football, but I can't relate to why people in Iowa would care about a Kansas-Virginia Tech game? It could matter if Iowa or Iowa State were playing, but Kansas? I think this is nonsense.

[wrwlumpy]

KANSAS!!!!!!!!!

Not Kansas State!