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Campaign Insider. Joe Biden's national chair has known him since...
...floor and an Ikea nightstand. I live out of my suitcases. I also have a coffee maker and cereal." She endures her Spartan digs, the hot weather, cold weather, countless stump speeches and 15-hour workdays as a staffer, all the while enthusiastically urging Iowans to vote for Joe Biden on January 3. "Sometimes it's so hard to get out of bed but I know how important the work is that I'm doing," says Davis. "In the office, there's so much energy from the other people, you feed off that...
...impressed as the staffers are with Iowans, the feeling seems to be mutual. Anne Welles, 60, a retired teacher, has had two twenty-something staffers she fondly calls "the Biden boys" staying in her Des Moines home since June. "I am very happy to help," says Welles, who, despite her houseguests' polite entreaties, is leaning towards Barack Obama. "It's so encouraging to know there are these kind of kids at this young age - hardworking, dedicated, respectful, supporting a cause, whatever they believe. As an educator, it gives me a lot of hope...
...also, above all, trying to keep hope alive. "It's amazing he's come so far," says Carter Wamp of Huckabee's dramatic rise in Iowa from back-of-the-pack to Republican caucus front-runner alongside Mitt Romney. "No one expects anything from us," says Raena Davis, acknowledging Biden's low poll numbers. But as befits someone willing to devote herself nonstop to such a cause, she is predicting a surprise strong showing for her man, saying, "I'm more than optimistic. I'm absolutely confident...
...there is dispute in the Administration, and in Congress, over whether the U.S. should repeat the personality-based approach that has produced such problems with Musharraf. Senator Joe Biden is pushing for a massive increase in non-military aid and a conditioning of military aid to progress on democracy. Some are pushing that approach in the interagency discussions, but others see the military as the safest bet for the future. Until that debate is sorted out, Bush and his diplomatic team will have to buy time with makeshift diplomacy of the sort unfolding now in Washington...