Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trended up every time she was here." Hillary roped in $1 million for Schumer and $1.6 million for Barbara Boxer, who won a close Senate race in California. She played a key role in Tom Vilsack's last-minute shocker over former G.O.P. Congressman Jim Lightfoot in the Iowa Governor's race. The Vilsack campaign crested when Hillary was there. "The polls were showing a dead heat, and then she brought this burst of enthusiasm," says David Axelrod, a Vilsack operative...
...Absolutely," I said. "I think you're beginning to catch on, Nigel. If you keep this up, someday I might try filling you in on the structure of the Iowa caucus system...
There was a long pause. "I'd rather not say," I finally replied. You can't give the entire system away to these foreigners. I told Nigel we might get to that question someday, once I was satisfied that he understood the structure of the Iowa caucus system...
...have to go to New Hampshire in the winter because it is the "First in the Nation!" primary, just as we have to go to Iowa in the winter because it is the "First in the Nation!" caucus. We have to go to these places because the national political parties are afraid to tell these states that the Constitution nowhere guarantees them the permanent right to 75% of all prenomination press attention. So we are doomed to quadrennial pneumonia. Unless...
Unless we are saved by the Tom Harkin Rule. In 1992 Iowa Senator Tom Harkin decided to seek the presidency; his fellow Democrats left the Hawkeye State to the native Hawkeye. While that left Iowa's hoteliers and restaurateurs in despair, it liberated a few thousand of us from the joys of standing ankle-deep in frozen mud while a candidate talked to four shivering Iowans, seven cows and 35 camera crews...