Things are getting heated in Iowa: "We're getting to the point in the campaign where the scrutiny is becoming so intense and the amount of dirt each camp is pushing on the other so thick that it's tough for any candidate to win a news cycle outright. Beyond this, there are are other complications in the increasingly ratched-up campaign."
Meanwhile, the Washington Post today runs a story suggesting that the lack of a front-runner in the GOP race means the party is "splintered" and "demoralized."
I'm not sure at all that "demoralized" is a good descriptor. Yes, it's unusual for there to be no front-runner, and for so many candidates to be in the mix, and yet to appear to have flaws. But someone WILL emerge; and once he does, the party will unite around him and gain morale, in order to gird up for the fight against the Democrats (and the Dems' candidate could still be Hillary). It always does.
