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...Chriss Dodd, the head of the Senate Banking Committee, pulls in 1 more percentage point in national polling numbers than you do. Instead of trying to get people to come see him, Dodd goes where the people are. On a Friday night he's buying a buffet of Irish stew and soda bread at Jameson's Bar in Waterloo and walking around like the perfect dad at his daughter's wedding...
...live in Iowa and you haven't had your back slapped by Chris Dodd, you are not getting out enough. Steve Ferguson came to Jameson's after work to meet some friends and talk about his baseball league. "I was just sitting there, and I got a slap on the back, and it's Senator Dodd," says Ferguson. And for those who don't get out enough, Dodd has scheduled "kitchen table" events, in which he goes to your house and talks about the issues...
...calibrated shouting that doesn't feel like shouting, exactly what Howard Dean was attempting when he derailed, the kind that makes you want to totally crush the other football team. But even the talkers like the bits they catch. "Buck, I tell you what we're going to do," Dodd yells from the stage to the bar's owner. "I'm going to need a bartender in the White House...
...Dodd isn't leading a campaign so much as a party at which the host is having too much fun to realize no guests have shown...
Tancredo's version of Dodd's Irish bar is anywhere there are guns. In two days in Iowa, he hits up two shooting ranges. His speech is riddled with self-interruption, his anti-immigration venom prefaced by endless apologia about how this isn't about race, guys, seriously. He simply cannot match the intensity of his base; in fact, when he took an online test to see which candidate he would support, Tom Tancredo was only 89% in alignment on the issues with Tom Tancredo. And he's not sure how long he can keep this up--these delayed connecting...