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...Latinas are leaders all over campus, but they rarely come together to network or socialize,” said Bianca M. Caban ’09, the coordinator of the conference and president of Latinas Unidas. Keynote speaker Isabel Londoño, the coordinator of the Women Caucus of the Colombian Congress, said institutions of higher learning such as Harvard were key in bringing together members of the country’s disparate Latina community. “All these people have the same identity but experience it in a different way,” she said, speaking of Latinas...
...Spurlin, 37, is exactly the kind of person Barack Obama hoped Oprah would draw: a woman voter who knows what she's doing every day at 4pm, but isn't sure whom she'll support on Jan. 3. "Oprah's so personable and funny," said Spurlin, who's never caucused before but participated in an Obama campaign training session in order to get her ticket. "I hope to caucus this time. Right now I'm torn between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, though today may help me make up my mind...
...real effect of Oprah on Iowa won't be known until the caucus, but in the short term her cameo appeared to achieve what the Obama campaign hoped it would. "Obama's got some really good ideas," said Spurlin at the end of the rally. "But then so does Hillary, and I liked her husband a lot." Sure enough, Bill Clinton will be in Des Moines on Monday, and Spurlin may go see him as well. If nothing else, Des Moines is drawing the A-List...
...crop of staffers, all eyes are on January 3, after which most of them will pack up and move on - maybe to South Carolina, Nevada, Florida or Michigan. Right now, they're busy organizing campaign events and flushing out potential supporters; schooling themselves and voters on the intricacies of caucus math; coaxing Iowans to leave their comfy homes on a winter night to caucus in a school gym or church basement...
...They're 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...