Robert Novak writes on the Iowa caucus and Hillary’s chances.

Prominent Democrats are advising Sen. Hillary Clinton that, if she runs for president in 2008 as expected, she should avoid the Iowa caucuses as the first competition for the Democratic nomination.

Iowa is far enough left that to win the caucus there would require a swing from Hillary that counter’s her recent move to the center. It’s true that she’s been giving some fiery speeches lately but those have been primarily about specific people and events. She’s changed her actual platform to something that’s beginning to resemble the right.

Some have said that leaning far left in Iowa, while assuring John Kerry the nomination, became his downfall when he tried to move from that position.