The Final Countdown?

The numbers of attendees at dueling (Terry Branstad's last name was on a sign in cross hairs, misspelled), err dualing statehouse rallies were across the spectrum.

For the Tea Party types, the count was 50, 60, 100 and 120.

Union supporter counts ranged from 500, 800 and 1,000.

Some in the media went with the safe, generic count of hundreds for both sides.

The head of ASSME, Danny Homan, made me laugh when he stated, Iowa activists organized Tuesday's rally at the last moment and didn't expect a huge turnout.

You try to lower expectations prior to the event.

Oh Danny Boy, the Iowa Fed sent out its press release (maybe Thursday) on the rally and the media went with on Friday February 18 for a Tuesday February 22 event.

That's not last moment and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Then to say you didn't expect a huge turnout after busing people in, and probably paying some, is sad.