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Hillary Clinton, particularly, has integrated this skepticism into her recent campaign appearances, regularly saying, “Some believe you can get change by hoping for it. I believe you get change by working hard.” After her defeat in Iowa, she intensified the attack, accusing Obama of instilling “false hopes” in Americans. Only a candidate who has weathered the storms of Republican attacks, Clinton argues, can manipulate the political system to implement changes in policy...
...this argument relies on a shallow and misguided interpretation of Obama’s hope. As he said in his victory speech after the Iowa caucuses, “Hope is not blind optimism…Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.” This is the transformative power of Obama’s candidacy: He offers a vision of change more ambitious than any candidate...
Several hundred people crowded in an Iowa church Thursday. Among them was first-time caucus-goer Tony W. Wang ’11, who came to support Illinois Sen. Barack Obama...
This year, 57 percent of young Democratic voters supported Obama and the number of Iowa caucus-goers under the age of 30 tripled compared with...
Like in many Iowa households, loyalties in the Thompson family were divided among various candidates. While Katherine Thompson caucused for Obama, her father served as a precinct captain for Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, and her mother, also a first time caucus participant, caucused for Edwards...