Iowa

The Boston Globe delights in noting that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer will meet with Iowa's delegation to the Democratic National Convention Committee in Denver this week, calling him one of the "2012 unhopefuls" (because the Democrats hope to win this year).

Doubtful if not downright absurd.

Like we previously reported, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown is in Pennsylvania today, though unlike what we said, he is not there campaigning for Sen. Hillary Clinton. Instead he’s spending his day filling his duties as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces.

But he will definitely get his campaigning fill this weekend, as all across Iowa tomorrow, 13,485 delegates elected on Jan. 3 will meet in 99 county conventions to elect 2,500 delegates to the June 14 Democratic Party district and state conventions. There, the rest of the Iowa delegation to this summer’s Democratic National Committee Convention will be selected.

With second place finisher John Edwards out of the way, Clinton is dispatching surrogates like Brown to the state to woo the former North Carolina Senator’s 4,046 delegates.