i don t hear much grumbling here today. but it is an opportunity for the candidates who are here to make their appeal to people who are state party chairs, who really are plugged into activists circles back home in their critical states. it s also where the party is doing its business of finalizing the calendar and the delegate plans to actually lay down the rules of the road for these candidates about how they re going to achieve the nomination. what do you make on biden, this take in the new york times. less than two weeks before labor day there are signs of a disconnect between his relatively rosy poll numbers and excitement for his campaign on the ground here, iowa. in the state that begins the presidential nominating process. you were just in iowa, david. what do you make of that? i think we re having a technical problem with david. unfortunately, we ll see if we
this race out there on the internet and among some sort of right wing activists circles. that guarantees that is going to continue. there s one other point that seemed kind of interesting. the complaint, moore says he took a polygraph test days after the december 12th election to prove he s innocent against those allegations of sexual misconduct that were made by three women against roy moore. in fact, here s what he said. quote, as i had expected results of the examination reflected i did not know, nor had i ever had any sexual contact with any of these individuals. we don t know very much about the polygraph but is this actually relevant at all in this possible challenge? it is not at all relevant. and, in fact, it raises the question of why he didn t take that polygraph test before the election. yes, that s a good point. let me ask you quickly, moore gives very few details on the purported irregularities as karen bhaengsing there.