According to a Chicago Tribune blog, Hillary is ratcheting it up in Iowa, using the piles in her warchest to hire a helicopter, or “Hill-a-copter” as the campaign has branded it, to ferry her over the midwest snow and ice on a blitz of twelve closely contested counties scheduled to begin Sunday. Is the Clinton air tour gaudy? Yes. Out of place? Utterly. Will it work? Who knows. To counter the spendthrift splashy quality of the tour, which may well turn off conservative Iowa voters, campaign sources have suggested Hillary plans to forgo her usual parka-and-pearls Iowa campaign attire for an ensemble with a distinct “mission accomplished” aura, going for a camo-and-codpiece “whatever it takes” kinda feel. Because, as everybody knows, information-age democracy is not about delegates. It’s about media-based momentum! Wink.