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There are 2,531 precincts in Iowa, each resembling but also differing from every other one. For a closeup view of how the caucus system works, TIME Chicago Correspondent Madeleine Nash attended a Republican gathering in the second ward of Harlan. Her report...
...Harlan (pop. 5,400) sits amid the farm land of southwest Iowa, 98 miles west of Des Moines. With its electorate divided nearly equally among Democrats, Republicans and Independents, Harlan has some fierce political battles. As Kenneth "Doc" Mueller, the town chiropractor who doubles as mayor, said about the Republican caucus, "We've got a real hot contest here. It's friend against friend...
...friends in Harlan take politics as seriously as Jim Kalal does. A native of Nebraska, Kalal, 44, studied engineering, then worked 17 years for the Lincoln electricity company before moving to Harlan in 1973 to manage the town's municipal utility. A plump, amiable man with curly gray hair, Kalal is married and has four children. In 1976 he supported President Ford against Reagan because he believed a White House incumbent stood a better chance. This time he decided to go with the former Governor of California. Says Kalal: "I liked what Reagan said four years...
...Moines. A secretary for CBS's Walter Cronkite fielded dozens of calls from people eager to talk with the popular anchorman. One fan claimed he was Cronkite's close friend; he had once written away for an autographed photo of the newsman. Kenneth Mueller, the mayor of Harlan (pop. 5,300), arranged to meet Adam Clymer, a national political reporter for the New York Times. Clymer showed up wearing enough plastic and paper ID cards, press passes and Secret Service credentials around his neck to gain entry to the Oval Office. Says the mayor wryly: "He looked...
Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland delivered much the same message to farmers in Iowa, where many of them last year planted extra acres in corn, expecting to sell it to the Soviets. He told an audience in Harlan: "They knew they were taking a risk. Risk taking is part of farming. I have the tough and brutal decision: Do I accommodate those people who have made the wrong decision? Well, no, I don't think we should...