Word: iowa
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...choices don't reach the 15% vote threshold (when any Democratic candidate fails to get 15%, their supporters then go to whomever is second on their lists). "The Obama campaign is very aggressive in asking folks if we're not people's first choice," said Gordon Fischer, a former Iowa Democratic Party state chairman who endorsed Obama two months ago. "The campaign follows up and asks if we can be their second choice...
...final, frigid days leading up to the 2004 Iowa caucuses, the presidential campaign of Senator John Edwards was struggling. While Howard Dean was packing in hundreds and even thousands at his angerfests, Edwards wasn't a big enough draw to fill even the double-wide mobile home where one of his supporters was hosting a house party for him in Chariton, Iowa. It was just before Christmas 2003, and there were, Edwards recalls now, "10 or 15 people" waiting to hear him make his case. For the candidate who had been lauded as the next Bill Clinton not so many...
...speech got little attention when Edwards first tried it out in Des Moines, Iowa, on Dec. 29. Delivered from behind a lectern, the "two Americas" refrain sounded like the familiar trope of class warfare. "One America does the work while another America reaps the reward," Edwards intoned. "One America pays the taxes while another America gets the tax breaks." But as Edwards took it on the road-into living rooms and union halls and diners and high school gyms-it grew and evolved into something much, much bigger, into a cause. "The more I talked about it, the more...
...again," Edwards would declare. "How many times has someone said to you that you can't do something? That you're not quite prepared for this, you don't have the right training or are not experienced enough?" Edwards surprised everyone by coming from nowhere to place second in Iowa. And while the power of that stump speech didn't win the nomination for him in 2004, it did propel him to the position of John Kerry's running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket. And when they lost the election in November, the speech was the reason...
...just how angry John has become," said his former Senate colleague Chris Dodd, another presidential contender. "This is not the same John Edwards I once knew." Some of his former supporters feel the same way. Frank Best had originally signed up to lead Edwards' campaign in Louisa County, Iowa, but has since switched to Barack Obama, saying "Edwards just doesn't have the same campaign he had four years...