Word: iowa
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ever jealous of your sister Amy? Dan Burhans DES MOINES, IOWA...
Barack Obama was campaigning last October in South Carolina when he got an urgent call from Penny Pritzker, the hotel heiress who leads his campaign's finance committee. About 200 of his biggest fund raisers were meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, and among them, near panic was setting in. Pritzker's team had raised money faster than any other campaign ever had. Its candidate was drawing mega-crowds wherever he went. Yet he was still running at least 20 points behind Hillary Clinton in polls. His above-the-fray brand of politics just wasn't getting the job done...
Obama’s supporters at the Law School also emphasized the racial significance of the milestone. Mack noted that Obama’s campaign was able to triumph in predominantly white states like Iowa (which is 96 percent white) and Montana (which is 0.5 percent black...
...aloofness but the broad appeal of a character whittled smooth by hard work and strong values, one given not to bombast but to good country straight talk—be that over potatoes and Yuengling in Altoona, Pennsylvania, or fried steak and Lost Duck in Altoona, Iowa. With some unabashed image engineering, it turns out, nothing else really matters...
...been as successful in gaining the support of working-class Caucasians, that had been as much a consequence of their prejudices as it was of his Ivy-cool mien. His army of young idealists, the brilliant organizers who had built his campaign from the ground up in Iowa and elsewhere, had won this nomination fair and square, and his nervously proud African-American supporters - never far from tears - were every bit as moving as Clinton's suffering Caucasians...