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That evening, Carter took a break to watch the caucus results from Iowa on TV. At 9:30 p.m., Appointments Secretary Phillip Wise phoned to congratulate Carter on his overwhelming victory. The President and his wife were ecstatic. Said an aide: "You could practically hear him grinning from ear to ear." Rosalynn was even more emotional. Said another staffer: "She was so excited that she was just flying." Next morning, Carter greeted a top adviser with "the biggest smile that I've seen in a long time," but he quickly got back to the speech. When another aide raised...
...caucuses proved to be important because Iowans took them so seriously. Bombarded with political speeches and ads, pressed for their views by an omnipresent press, proud of their role as potential kingmakers, some 115,000 Republicans and 100,000 Democrats turned out to vote. Four years ago, only 22,000 Republicans and 38,000 Democrats had taken part in the caucus process...
...worries on the phone with France's President Giscard d'Estaing, and he probes cautiously on a call to India's newly elected and infuriating Indira Gandhi. The President's international phoning is now done with the same casualness he uses for Iowa's caucus votes. His list includes Pakistan's Zia, Germany's Schmidt, Egypt's Sadat, Britain's Thatcher. He still writes Brezhnev regular personal letters...
...McGovern-Fraser reforms of 1972, initiated by the Democrats and copied by the Republicans, were intended to open the process to a greater number of people, especially women, minorities and the young. But the new rules have made the selection by caucus so complicated that more and more states have substituted primaries. This year 37 are holding primaries, an expensive and enervating ordeal for candidates that is almost as burdensome as the presidency itself...
Baker and Connally also have been following a catch-up strategy. Lacking the organization of the top two, they are conducting a lavish media blitz aimed at bringing out as big a caucus vote as possible. "The more people who turn out, the more it helps me," says Baker. But that is a strategy better calculated to work in a primary than in a caucus. Connally and Baker are both also trying to shake as many hands as possible, but they are several thousand behind Bush. As Dick Redman, Baker's Iowa campaign chairman, puts it: "In Iowa, folks...