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...will never attend a caucus in Iowa again. First of all, I couldn't valet my car at the Westridge Elementary School in West Des Moines. Second, there was not a Jean Philippe Patisserie inside the school selling fresh, soft, Nutella-stuffed brioches. Third, not one of the people I met at the school was a cocktail waitress - or even dressed like a cocktail waitress...
...Bellagio hotel had never hosted a caucus before, but they ran the swankest voting site ever in which tiaras were not handed out. The caucus was held in the marble-floored, crystal-wall-sconced Tower ballroom a few yards from the casino. And yet the hotel was still unsatisfied. "For us, that room has nothing in it," said Alan Feldman, Bellagio's senior vice president of public affairs. "Even the water is in pitchers. We would never do that. It would be bottles of Fiji in little cooled metal holders. Next year, we want to sit down with the party...
...Silver State's caucus wasn't supposed to turn out a joke. On the contrary, it scored what was originally intended to be a prime early slot on the political calendar, a nod to both the growing importance of Hispanics, who make up nearly a quarter of the state's population and the power of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who hails from Nevada. It agreed to hold a caucus instead of a primary because state officials believed they it would come second in the nation after Iowa and before New Hampshire, which prizes its first-in-the-nation status...
...Just as with the Iowa caucuses, organization is key in Nevada; the idea isn't just to finish first in the big population centers, as it is in primaries, but to win the rural areas as well since delegates are pre-apportioned across the state. But while all three top Democratic candidates spent months and tens of millions of dollars organizing Iowa, none have invested nearly the same time and resources in Nevada. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards have each spent three weeks or less in state. And while Iowans have been trained by 32 years of caucusing...
...undergraduates on special projects. In addition to several politicians and political journalists, the institute also selected an environmental advocate as a result of student interest, IOP Director Jim Leach said yesterday. The fellows include David Yepsen, a political columnist for The Des Moines Register who has covered the Iowa caucus since the 1976 presidential election. He hopes to study the role of early primary election states in the presidential nomination process. “We’re ground zero for all these presidential campaigns,” Yepsen said in an interview yesterday. “I want...