Two spokesmen for the Democratic party in Iowa professed surprise and disappointment, and threatened reprisal and death for the two candidates who announced over the weekend that they were pulling out of the state caucus. General Clark, who was polling under ten percent, said that there simply was no way to catch up with the organization that other Democratic candidates had invested in beginning months earlier. Joe Lieberman wasn't that specific, but spokesmen put it this way: Why should Joe keep his 17 full-time vote recruiters in Iowa, where his poll standing wasn't all that encouraging? Why not send them to New Hampshire? Which is what he has done. "There is no victory in being fourth in Iowa."