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...eschewed that strategy and instead found its standard bearer in its industrial Rust Belt roots, a place where Obama's reputation and early ground game could have maximum impact. It was no accident that on election night, Obama captured six of the states that ring Illinois, including three - Ohio, Iowa and Indiana - that John Kerry lost in 2004. (Obama lost adjacent Missouri by less than 5,000 votes...
...been decided, the focus is shifting from the campaign to the administration. “The Barack Obama who spoke at [Chicago’s] Grant Park on the night of the election was a different Barack Obama,” said Tom Vilsack, a former governor of Iowa who is rumored to be in the running for agriculture secretary. “It was an individual who realized that the weight of the world rested on his shoulders.” The fellows said that Obama should focus his attention on the economy and refrain from shifting...
...Following Shaheen’s resignation, former Iowa Representative Jim Leach served as interim director while the IOP searched for a permanent successor...
Black support of Obama soared after he won last winter's Iowa caucuses. But there were moments in this campaign when Obama was forced to manage the issue of race deftly and explain the unexplainable to a largely white electorate. Consider the case of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. Obama joined Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in the 1980s, when Obama was an obscure community organizer. Trinity gave Obama an entrée to the city's thriving black middle class, and Obama came to view Wright in particular as a mentor...
Most of all, Salter repeatedly praised McCain, a man for whom he has worked for 19 years, and for whom he has boundless respect. He recalled traveling with McCain to Iowa and New Hampshire after his campaign collapsed in 2007 under the weight of mismanagement and poor fund-raising. "There was nothing except a mental and emotional confidence - this is what I set out to do, and I will do this. And if I fail, I fail - but no one will tell me I failed until I have," Salter said. "That must be kind of a glimpse of a kind...