Vote for me, but sorry for the bother

VINTON, Iowa -- You know it’s all getting to be a little much when the presidential candidates have to start apologizing to voters for harassing them.

Because turnout is so crucial in the nailbiter Iowa caucuses, each campaign has been calling and knocking on the doors of its supporters, over and over and over, to make sure they still feel the love and aren’t in danger of changing their minds or just staying home.

So today, Clinton offered apologies to the weary populace, and managed at the same time to pay homage to Iowa’s unique caucus system.

“With the blizzard of TV ads you are living through, I apologize,” she said, to laughter, “all those phone calls you get, lots of them during dinner, and the people that knock on your door, but I have to thank you, you have been so kind not just to my staff and my volunteers but those who are representing every candidate. You invite them into your homes, very often feed them, you really give them your views, you listen. So it’s been just a great exercise in the best kind of grassroots democracy.”