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...Iowa caucus is designed to answer the crucial question America has been asking for nearly a year: If old people, farmers and evangelicals chose the President based on their second and third choices, who would lead the free world...
...Just as he did in this cycle, Edwards invested heavily in Iowa in 2004. But he didn't have the resources and hadn't spent the time there to fare well in New Hampshire, where he placed fourth. Edwards raised $1 million a day after his surprise second place in Iowa that year, largely because, with Howard Dean swooning, Edwards came across as that year's only fresh-faced agent for change. But Democrats are living in an altered universe this time: if the Iowa results tell us anything, it is that Obama, far more than Edwards...
...aides, though, argue that his victory over Clinton, who has also raised over $100 million, shows his message is resonating despite his comparatively thin wallet. In Iowa he was limited to spending $1.5 million, though he benefited from spending by supportive unions and privately funded outside groups that ran television commercials on his behalf. "I have to be honest, I didn't think with a turnout of more than 200,000 that we'd be where we are in this thing," Trippi said. "We only had 42,000 hard count [i.e., committed voters], so to go from...
...states of the Service Employees International Union that have endorsed Edwards were sending out a press release claiming victory out of second place and laying out their strategy to work for him in the upcoming contests. And you can be sure the same outside groups that helped Edwards in Iowa will appear in New Hampshire. Still, the tidal wave that Edwards' spoke of, at least for tonight, is not his own. It will take another tidal wave for Edwards to wrest the mantle of change - and a victory - from Obama...
...walked into the library - which was overstuffed with 267 people compared to the 86 who came four years ago - I realized that Iowans are drunk with the power of choice. The rest of the country makes a selection between a few well-tested candidates. The people of Iowa are the early market research groups who feel duty bound to try every insane invention Burger King can think of. Everyone is way too into it, and someone in the room always argues that, if you really think about it, the Coq Au Vanwich is pretty good, or that Dennis Kucinich will...